Middle East
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13 Sep 2011
Insurgents launched a complex assault against the American Embassy and the nearby NATO headquarters on Tuesday, pelting...
21 Aug 2011
The country s beleaguered election commission gave in to political pressure on Sunday and declared that it would change...
14 Aug 2011
Twenty people were killed in a suicide attack Sunday on the governor s compound in Chaharikar in the central province of...
12 Aug 2011
On May 6, a Central Intelligence Agency drone fired a volley of missiles at a pickup truck carrying nine militants and...
6 Aug 2011
In the deadliest day for American forces in the nearly decade-long war in Afghanistan, insurgents shot down a Chinook...
31 Jul 2011
This a article is a great example of the social challenges in Afghanistan and what happens when people have the courage...
28 Jul 2011
A team of three to six suicide bombers orchestrated a surprise attack Thursday on the government compound and two other...
17 Jul 2011
A close adviser to President Hamid Karzai who had been a fierce foe of the Taliban in Afghanistan s south was killed...
13 Jul 2011
SENIOR American and NATO officers in Afghanistan have wanted Ahmed Wali Karzai gone - set aside, retired, out of...
5 Jul 2011
From an American policy standpoint, the changing of the guard means little, but from the Afghan standpoint, in which a...
23 Jun 2011
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan welcomed the decision to withdraw more than 30,000 American troops over the next...
23 Jun 2011
President Obama declared Wednesday that the United States had largely achieved its goals in Afghanistan, setting in...
22 Jun 2011
President Obama will talk about troop numbers in Afghanistan when he makes a prime-time speech from the White House on...
20 Jun 2011
Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at...
20 Jun 2011
Toor Jan, who used to kill Americans and Canadians here, does not want much from the Afghan government. A home. A job....
18 Jun 2011
As the Obama administration nears a crucial decision on how rapidly to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan,...
8 Jun 2011
A comprehensive review of American nation-building efforts in Afghanistan paints a dim picture of poor planning and...
4 Jun 2011
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Saturday that the United States should stick to its full counterinsurgency...
31 May 2011
In one of his sternest warnings yet concerning civilian casualties, President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday that NATO...
22 Apr 2011
This American base in Afghanistan was once a hot spot, but a change in tactics has made it far more secure. Above,...
24 Mar 2011
A NATO helicopter gunship inadvertently killed two civilians while attacking suspected insurgents in the eastern...
15 Mar 2011
The commander of American and allied forces in Afghanistan told Congress on Tuesday that the military had had...
10 Mar 2011
A first cousin of Afghanistan s president was killed Wednesday during a night raid by NATO and Afghan forces in which...
9 Mar 2011
Besides well-reported advances in southern provinces, American and NATO forces have also been able to halt or reverse...
26 Feb 2011
A playing field in a remote area of northwest Afghanistan where a crowd had gathered was the most recent target for a...
25 Feb 2011
Afghanistan After years of fighting for control of a prominent valley in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan,...
7 Feb 2011
Midway through December, Afghan police officers arrested a man who had hidden a fake bomb near a government office in...
1 Feb 2011
Police officers investigating the double murder of a couple who were stoned to death in a prominent case five months ago...
28 Jan 2011
An explosion on Friday afternoon in a Kabul supermarket frequented by foreigners killed at least eight people, including...
19 Jan 2011
President Hamid Karzai ordered a month s delay in seating a new Parliament on Wednesday, heightening a constitutional...
8 Jan 2011
Intensified fighting and a larger troop presence in Afghanistan in 2010 led to the highest American combat casualties...
27 Dec 2010
The deadliest group of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has not conducted a complex large-scale attack in the capital...
17 Dec 2010
Germany, which has the third-largest military force in Afghanistan, will start withdrawing its 4,800 troops as early as...
17 Dec 2010
A review of President Obama s strategy for the war in Afghanistan concludes that American forces can begin withdrawing...
25 Oct 2010
President Hamid Karzai accused the United States on Monday of exporting killing to Afghanistan by giving contracts to...
25 Sep 2010
Evidence is mounting that fraud in last weekend s parliamentary election was so widespread that it could affect the...
18 Sep 2010
MARJA, Afghanistan -The first voter here was Muhammad Akbar, 22, who dipped his finger in the indelible purple ink,...
26 Aug 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan - The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive...
12 Aug 2010
KABUL (Reuters) - Eight foreign medical workers and two Afghans shot by unidentified gunmen were likely killed in an...
24 Jul 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban militants kidnapped two American service members who were driving a civilian vehicle in a...
14 Jun 2010
WASHINGTON The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond...
2 Jun 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan - As rockets landed nearby and suicide attackers detonated explosives, President Hamid Karzai opened...
19 May 2010
BALUCH, Afghanistan Minutes after surviving the morning s first ambush, Cpl. John M. Boone, a Marine sniper, called over...
26 Apr 2010
Small bands of elite American Special Operations forces have been operating with increased intensity for several weeks...
12 Apr 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan American troops raked a large passenger bus with gunfire near Kandahar on Monday morning, killing as...
5 Apr 2010
PESHAWAR, Pakistan Militants mounted an assault against the United States Consulate in this northern Pakistani city on...
5 Apr 2010
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A stepped-up campaign of American drone strikes over the past three months has battered Al Qaeda and...
16 Mar 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, has brought most American...
23 Feb 2010
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan In another blow to the Taliban senior leadership, Pakistani authorities have captured Mullah Abdul...
20 Feb 2010
WASHINGTON Before 10,000 troops marched through central Helmand Province to wrest control of a small Afghan town from a...
16 Feb 2010
NAD ALI, Afghanistan As heavy fighting in the insurgent stronghold of Marja carried into its third day, the number of...