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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.
Assuming the reports are accurate, President Obama will send somewhere between 25,000-30,000 additional troops in order to, as he stated last week, "finish the job"...
Why a cocktail of half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about America have taken hold in the Arab-Muslim world since 9/11.
Pakistan's unpopular president is coming under increasing pressure from the powerful army and political opponents to resign or relinquish most of his powers, fueling political turmoil just as the West wants the country to focus on the threat posed by Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
What's Your Reaction? 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.
HUTAL, Afghanistan — Ill-disciplined private security guards escorting supply convoys to coalition bases are wreaking havoc as they pass through western Kandahar province, undermining the coalition’s counterinsurgency strategy here and leading to at least one confrontation with U.S. forces, say U.S. Army officers and Afghan government officials.
It may be schools, not troop levels, that ultimately win the war in Afghanistan. President Obama's greatly anticipated announcement on Tuesday about future strategy probably will feature a military buildup. But equally important is a counterinsurgency package...
An international conference on Afghanistan will be held in London on January 28, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday.
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said an international conference will be held in London next year to set out a timetable for the handover of security to Afghanistan’s government.
It is traditional to count our blessings this time of year but, given the general state of affairs and Washington's whole lot of talk and no action, it's hard to get into the holiday spirit.
A dozen prisoners escaped jail through a tunnel they dug from their cell to the outside in western Afghanistan, police said Saturday.
VALPARAISO | A shocking memoir about life in Afghanistan alertedDiana Haniacek to the plight of women under the Taliban . It wasonly natural the Valparaiso woman's annual philanthropic projectcentered on books and that nation.
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other extremist groups Friday to lay down their weapons...
President Obama's push to let gays serve openly in the military has met less initial pushback than expected from the top brass - and from within the ranks.
Pakistan has paid out the equivalent of nearly 120,000 dollars over the arrest of a lieutenant of the country's Taliban warlord ahead of a major Muslim festival, the military said Thursday.
For the first time in his recent memory Dr. Kenneth Marx will not be doing his holiday gift-shopping at one of his favorite stores in Ardmore: owner Sherry Tillman’s Past*Present*Future crafts and gift shop on Lancaster Avenue.
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