Can the U.S. Woo Afghanistan Taliban to Switch Sides?
Time Magazine - 13 minutes agoA surge of American reinforcements into Afghanistan will be a sideshow to the effort to put insurgents onto the U.S. payroll
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A surge of American reinforcements into Afghanistan will be a sideshow to the effort to put insurgents onto the U.S. payroll
How worried are Taliban leaders about a possible surge of U.S. forces in Afghanistan? President Obama's new strategy for turning the tide of the war includes sending thousands of additional troops to fight the insurgency. But senior Taliban officials tell NEWSWEEK they are confident that their guerrilla presence on the ground is now so well entrenched and widespread in southern, eastern, western ...
The U.S. is underwriting a program that not only seeks to disarm Taliban but also enlist tribal leaders’s support by having them involved in the choice of development projects for which the jobs are being offered.
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War is expensive, and it's about to get more so if the U.S. government escalates its military efforts in Afghanistan.
Obama's anticipated plan for significantly expanding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan must show how those reinforcements will help increase the size of the Afghan security forces, Sen. Carl Levin says.
As President Barack Obama prepares to make the case for sending more troops to Afghanistan, some allies are urging him to return to a line of argument little heard since the Bush years: the United States has a moral obligation to protect the Afghan people, particularly women, from the Taliban.
His convoy is hit in southern Afghanistan and a guard is injured. In his Eid holiday address, President Karzai renewed his calls for insurgents to put down their arms. The governor of a violent southern province in Afghanistan escaped assassination Friday, even as President Hamid Karzai renewed his calls to insurgents to lay down their weapons.
U.S. Senate candidate Bob Krause said today he wants President Barack Obama to “halt the rush for escalation” of American forces in Afghanistan.
It may be schools, not troop levels, that ultimately win the war in Afghanistan. President Obama's greatly anticipated announcement on Tuesday about future strategy probably will feature a military buildup. But equally important is a counterinsurgency package...
An international conference on Afghanistan will be held in London on January 28, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that the increase in US force in Afghanistan might lead to the spill over of militants in Pakistan and make the situation worse confounded and, therefore, the western countries should evolve a joint strategy against the Taliban on Pak-Afghan borders.
PASCAGOULA, MS (WLOX) - President Obama is set to announce a plan for the future of the war in Afghanistan Tuesday. Reports indicate the announcement will include deploying more troops to war. South Mississippians voiced their opinions on the war at Beach Park Sunday.
KOLK, Afghanistan — When the improvised bomb exploded in a mud-walled compound about 300 yards from a new traffic checkpoint, the six Afghan police officers at the post just looked at one another.
It was an emotional homecoming for hundreds of Fort Drum soldiers as they returned from a year-long deployment to Afghanistan. Our Katie Gibas talked with the returning troops about their mission and how the situation in Afghanistan has changed during their deployment.
Members of Graafschap Christian Reformed Church are tying yellow ribbons around the Gritter family’s porch railing to represent their prayers for U.S. Marine Sgt. Cory Gritter who was injured Oct. 28 by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.