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The U.S. cruise missile strike on an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan in 1998 was meant to kill Osama bin Laden. But he apparently left shortly before the missiles struck, and newly declassified U.S. documents suggest the attack cemented an alliance with his Taliban protectors.
U.S.-led coalition troops battled a group of militants in eastern Afghanistan, killing over 30 insurgents, while three NATO soldiers were killed in a roadside blast elsewhere, officials said Thursday.
The U.S.-led coalition says over 30 militants were killed in a battle with its troops in eastern Afghanistan.
NATO says three of its soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in central Afghanistan.
The Army is mailing out thousands of letters to survivors of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking what it can do to better help them, even years after the deaths of their loved ones.
Mexico’s Guillermo Perez has won the men’s under 58-kilogram taekwondo gold, while Afghanistan is celebrating its first Olympic medal ever in the same event.
Drawing strength from the chaos in neighboring Pakistan, Afghan insurgents are using their growing control of the border area to plot increasingly brazen attacks against international forces, the NATO commander in Afghanistan said.
The U.S. on Wednesday offered to help Pakistanis displaced by an army operation against Islamic militants in a northwest tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn’t easy, either.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.
On Tuesday, Barrack Obama was campaigning at the Ronald Reagan Building and International World Centre when he said,
I will give our military a new mission on my first day in office: ending this war. Let me be clear: We must be careful as getting...
Musa Qala lies in northern Helmand province of Afghanistan and was once under Taleban. Eight months ago it was recaptured by the International Assistance Security Force (ISAF) and Afghan troops. Both Afghan government and British wanted to rebuild the...
According to recent Pentagon and an independent website reports, combat deaths are on rise in parts of Afghanistan. American military death toll has been the highest in this month of June and they are still counting. There are no confirmed records of...
I am sure many of us would not even be aware of the fact that leopards exist in Afghanistan. It is very hard to imagine wildlife population in those war ravaged terrains. As a matter of fact snow leopard, which is a very rare and exotic breed of...
Rumour says that the future of the American Marine Corp is going to be in Afghanistan. News that the bush administration is retooling it Afghanistan Stratergy and the fact that the Marines will soon be turning over the security responsibility for the...
Above you see the picture of a young woman, Rukhma, who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan with her three-year-old son. In Pakistan, Rukhma was married to an abusive man who fathered her son, Bilal. Rukhma divorced her...
It seems that in ever war torn Afghanistan, violence has taken the centerstage in lives. However, it’s not completely their fault either; but now after decades of violence, creativity of Afghan minds seems to be inclined towards creating more and...
After years of fighting the Taliban regime and trying to restore order in Afghanistan, American and British troops are largely unsuccessful. It is not the case only in Afghanistan, but is also true of the other places which America had invaded, namely...
The Americans are facing a lot of headaches in Afghanistan. Karzai has not prospered beyond being the Mayor of Kabul. The various warlords in the US propped government are secretly at each other’s throats. The other NATO allies are not coughing up...
In the world of conflict and dispute, its now the time when the countries are competing in the race for ‘Which is the most unstable country in the world?’. And the answer to this question seems to be delivered by a Risk Assessment Group, referred...
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This is an undated photo of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. The U.S. cruise missile strike on an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan in 1998 was meant to kill Osama bin Laden. But he apparently left shortly before the missiles struck, and U.S....
