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Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. will accelerate commando raids against hardcore Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters as it adds forces in Afghanistan, according to top commanders.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and key Western powers are seeking a new U.N. envoy to Afghanistan to help lead the "civilian surge" U.S. President Barack Obama has promised, U.N. diplomats and officials said.
South Korea vowed Thursday to press ahead with plans to send troops back to Afghanistan despite a Taliban threat of retaliation.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The American commander in charge of training the Afghan security forces said Wednesday that there had been a recent wave of recruits for the Afghan army, most likely because of a pay increase that he said put salaries close to those of Taliban fighters.
When Congress finally got its chance to weigh in on the war in Afghanistan, lawmakers grudgingly accepted what they didn't like about the Obama administration's planned escalation and moved on.
Taliban militants on Wednesday dynamited two boys' schools in Pakistan's Khyber district, where troops are pressing an offensive against Islamist insurgents, an official said.
President Barack Obama defended the right of the United States to wage "just wars" as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, acknowledging that as a wartime president he was a controversial choice.
Five young Americans detained in Pakistan, which is fighting an increasingly violent Taliban insurgency, wanted to join a jihad, or holy war, a police official said on Thursday.
If we didn't expand our forces in Afghanistan, and further even if we had removed those currently there, we would be no worse off. Rather, we'd have better resources to combat terrorism.
President Barack Obama, accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace, on Thursday defended the right of the United States to wage "just wars" like the one in Afghanistan.
The five men from Northern Virginia arrested in Pakistan had contacted radical jihadist organizations in that country, including two terrorist groups with links to al-Qaeda, and had maps and videos suggesting that they intended to train to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said...
Delayed elections in Iraq and a bloody attack this week will not derail U.S. troop withdrawal plans, U.S. officials said as Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew into Baghdad to meet Iraqi leaders.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is reeling from allegations that officials withheld information on civilian casualties in the German-ordered air strike in Kunduz
Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al-Qaida linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, a Pakistani law enforcement official said Thursday.
As one group of U.S. soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry tried to grab a few hours of sleep, another prepared to conduct medical screenings in the village of Ashoque, just west of Kandahar city.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A U.S. airstrike targeted a group of militants near a Taliban training camp in the eastern province of Kunar, military officials said Wednesday.
