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Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Commando raids against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters will accelerate as the U.S. adds more forces in Afghanistan, top military commanders said.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize by confronting “the hard truth” that armed conflict is sometimes both necessary and just.
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.
SARGODHA, Pakistan -- Five young Muslim American men arrested here on Wednesday were on their way to the heart of the Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal areas with the intention of training to fight American troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani police authorities said Thursday.
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.
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Friday, Dec. 11, 2009.
The U.S. is more cautious, with an official saying the five Muslims from suburban Virginia apparently weren't on the verge of violence. They may be handed over to the FBI. A close-knit group of five American Muslims from suburban Virginia had been trying to join a militant group in the Al Qaeda stronghold of northwestern Pakistan when they were arrested this week, Pakistani authorities said ...
ISLAMABAD -- Five young Americans detained in Pakistan this week had been trying to link up with a militant organization affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaida and based in Pakistan's troubled tribal region along the Afghan border, police said yesterday.
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.
KABUL — Afghan police say two police officers and three civilians have been killed when a motorcyclist blew himself up in eastern Afghanistan. Police chief of Paktika province Gen. Dawlat Khan says five other officers and 16 civilians have been wounded in the midday Friday blast.
