U.S. leader in Afghanistan pushes for new strategy
KABUL The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan said today the situation in the country is serious and a new strategy is needed to defeat the Taliban. Gen. Stanley McChrystal sent his strategic review of the Afghan war to the Pent...
 2.1K - Aug. 31, 2009; scored 249.0 Karzai, Abdullah claim wins in Afghan election
KABUL (AP) President Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah positioned themselves today as the winner of Afghanistan s presidential election, one day after millions of Afghans braved dozens of militant attacks to cast ballots. Partial pr...
6.0K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 249.0 Taliban fears inhibit turnout in Afghan elections
KABUL Taliban threats appeared to dampen voter turnout in the militant south today when Afghans chose the next president for their deeply troubled country. Insurgents launched scattered rocket, suicide and bomb attacks that closed some polling site...
6.5K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 249.0 U.S. troops die in Afghan ambush
KABUL (AP) Three American soldiers died in a complex militant ambush in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, raising NATO s two-day August death toll to nine and continuing the bloodiest period of the eight-year war for U.S. and allied troops. The U.N. s...
5.5K - Aug. 2, 2009; scored 249.0 Marines start talking to tribal chiefs
NAWA, Afghanistan U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan today, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest military operation here since the fall of th...
6.8K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 Marines exchange fire with Taliban
NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants today after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major op...
7.7K - Jul. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 New U.S. general takes charge in Afghanistan
KABUL - Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a four-star American general with a long history in elite special operations, took charge of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan today, a change the Pentagon hopes will turn the tide in an increasingly violent eight-y...
4.4K - Jun. 15, 2009; scored 249.0 Surge begins in Afghanistan
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan Close to 3,000 American soldiers who recently arrived in Afghanistan to secure two violent provinces near Kabul have begun operations in the field and already are seeing combat, the unit s spokesman said Monday. The new...
6.0K - Feb. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 | 
