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Afghan and foreign troops killed 23 Taliban militants in separate operations a day after the president pledged to take responsibility for security in his new five-year term, police said Saturday.
Afghanistan officials think Farah Gov. Rohul Amin may have been the target; he was not injured. The attack comes a day after President Karzai appealed to militants to put down their arms. Authorities on Friday were investigating whether a blast that hit a crowded marketplace in western Afghanistan was aimed at a provincial governor considered friendly to the United States.
WASHINGTON — While military officers wait for President Obama to conclude his agonizingly slow review of Afghanistan policy, they’ve been reading a paper by an Army Special Forces operative arguing that the only hope for success in that country is to work with tribal leaders.This tribal approach has widespread support, in principle. The problem is that, in practice, the United States has often ...
KABUL (AP) — A suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded at least 23 others today in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a powerful former warlord narrowly escaped an assa...
A suicide bomber in southwestern Afghanistan killed 17 people Friday, and an Afghan lawmaker escaped a separate blast on the outskirts of Kabul but five of his bodyguards were killed, officials said.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Keith Ellison, back from a trip last week to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said today that a new strategy is needed in the region - one that doesn't include sending more troops to U.S. troops to Afghanistan until that country's president, Hamid Karzai, cleans up corruption and "makes himself into a president that the United States can support.”
Any surge of US troops to Afghanistan is likely to be tougher than it was in Iraq, because of the dearth of good roads and airfields, say defense officials.
Lance Cpl. Justin Swanson's battalion commander thought of his own sons as he remembered the young Marine from Orange County,...
A rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital late Saturday, wounding at least two, the Interior Ministry said. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw police searching through rubble along the wall of the hotel's compound, apparently the impact point.
Berlin - Dozens of relatives of people killed in a controversial NATO airstrike in Afghanistan are to attempt to claim compensation from the German government, it emerged Saturday. Karim Popal, a lawyer, said in an interview with the Weser-Kurier new...
KABUL (AFP)--Hamid Karzai has been sworn in for a second five-year term as Afghanistan's president Thursday.
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service, three current and former U.S. intelligence officials said. Mullah Omar, who hosted Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders ...
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a senior police official in a crowded area in southwest Afghanistan Friday, killing the official and six others, a provincial police chief said.
After years of propping up corrupt and ineffective governments in South Vietnam, the U.S. finally decided to enter into peace talks with the North Vietnamese. The same should happen with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives in a crowded area in southwest Afghanistan on Friday, killing 13 people, including three police officials, a provincial police chief said.
Kabul - Hamid Karzai, who was sworn in for a second term in office on Thursday, still has the chance to go down as a great Afghan leader. However, as things stand now, Karzai's legacy will most likely be defined by August's fraud-marred elections, hi...
