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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.
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...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far from winding down, the numbers of wounded U.S. soldiers coming home have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute among those who fought in Afghanistan, where nearly four times as many troops were injured in October as a year ago.
Family members have confirmed that a 26-year-old soldier from Terrell has died in Afghanistan.
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The suspects were being pursued by the police after weapons were reported dumped along a road.
NATO took command of the training of the Afghan army and police on Saturday to consolidate efforts on building an effective security force, a vital precondition for the withdrawal of foreign troops.
Three suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up on Saturday as police chased them in Pakistani Kashmir, police said.
A rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital late Saturday, wounding at least two, the Interior Ministry said.
Endeavor to spur the growth of anti-Taliban Afghan militias reportedly is one of the riskiest plans for fighting militants • Up to 7,000 NATO Forces Sought for Afghan Strategy
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Afghan and Canadian forces captured a Taliban-controlled village Saturday in Afghanistan's Panjwaii district, the Canadian military said.
A defendant plans to admit his role in planning the terrorist attacks, and use his trial to voice his beliefs, his lawyer says.
