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About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, re-elected a week ago after a flawed vote, appealed Monday for closer trade ties with fellow Muslim countries to help Afghanistan break its cycle of conflict.
NATO says Afghan and foreign troops have killed more than 130 insurgents, including eight Taliban commanders, in six days of fierce fighting during a major offensive in northern Afghanistan.
The U.N. General Assembly declared on Monday that Afghanistan's presidential election was both credible and sound, despite allegations of widespread fraud that led critics to question the vote's legitimacy.
Army Sgt. Ryan C. Adams
Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term.
KABUL - Afghan and international troops killed more than 130 insurgents in six days of fighting in a once-stable area of northern Afghanistan that has seen a recent spike...
Tokyo - The Japanese government on Tuesday passed an aid package worth 5 billion dollars over the next five years to help reconstruction in Afghanistan. The package is to replace the military aid for the war in Afghanistan, which involves a controver...
MIAMI (AP) — A United Nations security guard from Miami who died fighting Taliban attackers at a hotel in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero by top U.N. staff for the lives he and another guard helped save.
Obama will consider the five options with his advisors at his war council meeting tomorrow.
For many, last week’s carnage was another blow in an area that has been beset by violence since the Iraq and Afghanistan wars began.
A platoon of Knoxville-based U.S. Marine reservists will be deployed to Afghanistan in the spring, officials said Monday. According to Capt. Joseph Easterling, an instructor for the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, Delta Company, members of the 36-man platoon will leave in March or April 2010 and will do everything from building fortifications to placing hospitals around friendly posts. "They'll ...
Television footage broadcast Tuesday showed insurgents handling what appears to be U.S. ammunition in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan that American forces left last month following a deadly firefight that killed eight troops.
Stockholm - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt arrived Tuesday in Afghanistan for an unannounced two-day visit. Sweden currently holds the presidency of the European Union. The visit was partly to follow up on an action plan for Afghanistan recently...
The Pentagon's building boom in Afghanistan indicates a long war ahead
KABUL: Afghan Taliban commander Abdul Mannan alias Mullah Toor has expressed disassociation with Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan(TTP) and said Afghan Taliban have no connection with outlawed Tahreek-e-Taliban.
