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About 30 Taliban insurgents were killed in a NATO-led air strike in eastern Afghanistan after they attacked an Afghan police post, a police official and the alliance said on Sunday.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was heading to Washington Sunday for key talks with US President Barack Obama to be dominated by climate change and the conflict in Afghanistan.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan -- Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalted highways, sweltering in flat scrublands and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world.
Expansion of partnership with ally envisioned including more military, economic cooperation.
Key Democrats and Republicans wonder how much longer and at what cost Americans are willing to support the war. Meanwhile, a Senate report says the U.S. let Osama bin Laden slip away in 2001. Days before President Obama is expected to announce his decision to send 30,000 or more additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, key lawmakers from both parties expressed deep misgivings about the cost and ...
Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley opposes sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Coakley issued a statement Sunday saying, "I believe we should begin the process of bringing our troops home." Two days before President Barack Obama addresses the nation on the subject, Coakley says she is "very concerned" the case for more troops still has not been made.
(Washington, DC) -- As many as nine-thousand troops are reportedly preparing to head to Afghanistan.
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama must show how more U.S. combat troops will speed the build-up of the Afghan army to generate Democratic support for his new war strategy in Afghanistan, Senator Carl Levin said.
The president’s handling of health care reform and Afghanistan will challenge the depth of his support.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday he wanted to set President Hamid Karzai a series of three-monthly targets so that international forces can start to hand over control of Afghanistan.
Afghan border police said Sunday they had killed 27 Taliban-linked insurgents and captured a fighter from Chechnya in a fierce battle backed by coalition air support that lasted several hours.
Front and center: Afghanistan .
JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- The American-backed campaign to persuade legions of Taliban gunmen to stop fighting got under way here recently, in an ornate palace filled with Afghan tribal leaders and one very large former warlord leading the way.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan (AP) - Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalted highways, sweltering in flat scrublands and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world. Now fighting in Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers invariably encounter illiterate farmers who may never have talked to an American as they slog into remote villages on dirt tracks ...
President Obama is expected to address the nation Tuesday night on the situation in Afghanistan. Americans with deep, personal stakes in his decision will listen very closely.
Afghanistan's tiny business community is hardly brimming with optimism as the government struggles to deal with levels of graft that make the country one of the most corrupt in the world.
