300 families flee south Afghan town ahead of US, Afghan offensive on Taliban stronghold About 300 families have already fled a southern Afghan ...
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan is ready to feed thousands if they flee a major assault by NATO troops, but officials hope ...
A series of avalanches engulfed a mountain pass in Afghanistan, trapping hundreds of people in their buried cars and killing as many as 64 people so far, authorities said Tuesday. Rescuers brought in bulldozers, ambulances and helicopters in a massive effort to ...
US Marines expectantly await battle in harsh Afghan desert winter Take a desert of yellow-orange dust so flat it looks like Mars, with a freezing wind that blows so hard it can lift a large tent. Add hundreds of U.S. Marines, squads ...
NATO says Afghan forces to play their biggest role of the war in upcoming operation in south Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an upcoming offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any ...
In this image taken from video on Friday Feb. 3, 2010, reportedly showing Taliban militants flogging a person in the Pakistani tribal area along the Afghanistan border. This new video has emerged which was purportedly filmed Feb. 3, shows a senior Taliban ...
Marine Sgt. Daniel M. Angus Daniel Angus loved to hunt and fish, his mother said — but on one fishing trip, his best catch was one he didn't reel in from the water. The North Carolina-based Marine met his wife, Bonnie, while ...
Wild West lore lightens US troops' mood at Afghan base surrounded by harsh desert, insurgency Welcome to the O.K. Corral. Past the concrete slabs and guards in heavy combat gear, a wooden board at the entrance to an allied military base in ...
Struggle for electricity in Kandahar shows difficulty of development amid war in Afghanistan About 90 factories sit vacant in the economic capital of southern Afghanistan. They could fight militants in a way no army could, employing thousands of people and giving them ...
This image taken on Jan . 20, 2010 shows Ahmadullah Noorzai, 38, a shawl merchant in Quetta, Paksitan, saying that it is hard to recognize Taliban in Quetta. If Afghan Taliban fighters and their top leaders are roaming around this remote part ...
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants are digging in ahead of a major NATO operation in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, in one of the biggest offensives in the eight-year-old war. U.S. Marines are set to launch an operation within days ...
Pakistanis skeptical of US claims that Afghan Taliban leaders are hiding in Baluchistan If Afghan Taliban fighters and their top leaders are roaming around this remote part of Pakistan as the U.S. alleges, the police chief here says he hasn't seen them. ...
