A White House review of President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan strategy being released on Thursday will report that forces are making headway.
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/ 15 December 2010
Foreign and Afghan forces have pushed back the Taliban insurgency in the key Kandahar province battleground.
Richard Holbrooke, the US diplomat who brokered the accord that ended the war in Bosnia died on Monday after emergency heart surgery.
Richard Holbrooke, the US diplomat who brokered the accord that ended the war in Bosnia died on Monday after emergency heart surgery.
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/ 13 December 2010
A group of about 100 Afghan members of Parliament demanded on Monday that President Hamid Karzai inaugurate the assembly by December 19.
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/ 20 November 2010
Nato says it will hand over security in Afghanistan by the end of 2014 but would not abandon the country in its fight against the Taliban.
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/ 10 November 2010
The future of Afghanistan is placed in the hands of police officers and their superiors. Focus is placed on skills development and education.
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/ 30 October 2010
US and Nato troops killed about 50 insurgents during attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, calling in air strikes to repel an assault on an outpost.
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/ 25 October 2010
The top UN diplomat in Afghanistan said on Sunday he will help with efforts to find a negotiated end to a war he believes has no military solution.
SA photographer Joao Silva lost portions of both his legs during a landmine blast in Afghanistan, yet continued to take pictures.
South African photographer Joao Silva has been severely injured in southern Afghanistan, the <i>New York Times</i> reported on Saturday.
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/ 12 October 2010
David Cameron reveals General David Petraeus has contacted him to say British hostage may not have died at hands of her captors as thought.
US President Barack Obama has told congressional leaders he has no plans for any major changes in his Afghanistan war strategy.
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/ 30 September 2010
In the refined and historic Afghan city of Herat, 67 young women have been admitted to the main hospital this year after setting themselves on fire.
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/ 28 September 2010
A suicide bomber on a motorised rickshaw killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan’s Ghazni province and five others on Tuesday.
Barack Obama was forced into a damage-limitation exercise on Wednesday after a new book by veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward.
Concerns were growing on Monday about intimidation and fraud in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election.
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/ 18 September 2010
Afghans voted in a parliamentary election on Saturday despite Taliban attacks that killed at least 10 people.
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/ 18 September 2010
A string of attacks hit Afghanistan’s parliamentary election on Saturday, after the Taliban vowed to disrupt the poll.
Millions of Afghans are expected to defy Taliban threats and vote in a poll on Saturday seen as a crucial step towards building democracy.
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/ 15 September 2010
Police fired into the air to disperse thousands of anti-American protesters in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday.
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/ 15 September 2010
Poor sanitation, water shortages, climate change and environmental destruction — Afghanistan grimly illustrates the fate of many nations.
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/ 14 September 2010
The head of Nato forces in Afghanistan urged commanders on Monday to hire more Afghans and steer contracts to local businesses.
Afghanistan will limit foreign involvement in two major anti-crime units in a move likely to worry its Western backers.
Civilian casualties have risen by 31% in the first half of 2010, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said on Tuesday.
The FBI is conducting its own probe into the deaths of eight foreign workers gunned down in Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban.
A Christian aid group denied on Sunday Taliban accusations that its team of medical workers killed in Afghanistan had been proselytising.
As the British and US governments ponder their next move, the <i>Observer</i>’s <b>Peter Beaumont</b> examines the four most likely scenarios.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai questioned on Thursday the willingness of his Western allies to strike insurgent bases in Pakistan.
Barack Obama has claimed the disclosures about the mishandling of the Afghanistan war contained in leaked documents justified his new strategy.
Winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan can be uphill work, as United States soldiers have discovered.
Real picture of a conflict longer than Vietnam, or either world war, refutes the idea of a "revolution in military affairs".