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The area includes Helmand and Kandahar, the financial and spiritual base of the Taliban, but also the location of most of the increase in American casualties this year.
Two-thirds of young adults oppose sending more US troops to Afghanistan, according to a national poll released yesterday by the Harvard University Institute of Politics that suggests fissures in a key demographic that helped President Obama capture the White House.
Anxious Democrats show little appetite for seriously blocking President Barack Obama’s new war strategy for Afghanistan and appear to be looking for ways instead to bridge their differences with the White House before funding is debated next year.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he was willing to talk with Taliban leader Mullah Omar in a bid for peace, the Associated Press reported Thursday. He said in an interview he would do "whatever it takes" to bring peace.
The chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff is reiterating that the U.S. target date for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan is flexible and will take "conditions on the ground" into account.
Thirty thousand more troops by the summer. It's a daunting challenge laid out by President Obama, and it's now having the U.S. military scrambling to get it done.
U.S. Rep. Brian Baird is “very skeptical” that President Barack Obama’s plan for Afghanistan can succeed, citing concerns about corruption in the country and doubts about neighboring Pakistan becoming a true partner in the effort.
With a population estimated at around 800,000, Kandahar is Afghanistan's second-largest city and a critical component of U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal's strategy that focuses on protecting Afghan civilians, rather than killing Taliban fighters. The city is also the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban, and served as the movement's de-facto capital until it was ousted from power during the U.S.-led ...
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to deploy 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Jim Lehrer speaks with former Army and CIA officers with experience in Afghanistan to get their take on President Obama's new plan to increase and eventually decrease the number of U.S. troops there.
The Marines heading to Afghanistan as part of the latest surge will keep track of friendly troops, enemy attacks and civilian infrastructure using a Darpa-created software system called Command Posts of the Future.
In an Associated Press interview, the Afghanistan leader says he'll have the discussions if the United States and other international partners back the move.
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan is aimed more at wringing reforms from President Hamid Karzai than mollifying a war-weary American public.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen took questions about Obama's Afghanistan plan.
Obama sends right message on conflict in Afghanistan Steven M. Clayton - Ocean, N.J. The most difficult decision any president has to make is to send our brave troops into harm's way. I feel President Obama has acknowledged that, and...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama 's decision on Afghanistan was tardy, messy -- and courageous. In contrast to the expectation that he would settle on a timid half-measure, Obama took more of a seven-eighths measure, leaving his commanders impressed and satisfied. In contrast to former vice president Dick Cheney 's charge that Obama is making national security decisions for "small 'p ...
