KABUL (Reuters) - NATO took command of the training of the Afghan army and police on Saturday to consolidate efforts on building an ...
The international community must ensure that aid and development projects in Afghanistan do not fuel corruption in the war-torn nation, US Secretary of ...
NATO: Talks on generating new forces for Afghanistan delayed until next month NATO says it's waiting for President Barack Obama's decision on additional troops for Afghanistan before it holds a conference on pledging reinforcements. The alliance holds regular meetings to raise troops ...
Afghan authorities said Wednesday that local security forces backed by NATO troops killed more than three dozen rebels in a series of military operations across insurgency-hit Afghanistan. The raids were announced on the eve of President Hamid Karzai's inauguration for a second ...
War-weary villagers in northern Afghanistan are taking up arms against insurgents, sick of having the Taliban encroach on their once peaceful patch of the country. In villages across Kunduz province, where a misdirected NATO air strike killed 90 civilians in September, tribal ...
Slovakia says it will double number of troops serving with NATO in Afghanistan to about 500 Slovakia pledged about 250 extra soldiers Tuesday to the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, the first of what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said would be a ...
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 17: Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Army Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.), waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee November 17, 2009 on Capitol Hill in ...
Greek police fired tear gas and detained more than 200 people as clashes broke out with stone-throwing protesters at a march to honour a 1973 anti-junta student revolt in Athens on Tuesday. Three police officers were injured as violence flared at the ...
The head of NATO said Tuesday he expected "substantially more forces" for Afghanistan to be pledged within weeks, but only to help speed up handing over security responsibility to Afghan forces. His speech came after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered to ...
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday he was confident the alliance would agree to increase substantially the number of troops battling Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama is weighing several options for boosting U.S. troop levels in ...
The conflict in Afghanistan is not "a war without end" but success can only be ensured with a clear political strategy, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Tuesday. In a speech to delegates at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Edinburgh, Miliband said ...
Afghans injured by Monday's rocket attack in Tagab, are seen lying on beds at hospital at the U.S. base of Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. An official says the deaths of civilians in a rocket attack presumably aimed ...
