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Q&A: How Are the Taliban Linked to the Ancient Tribe the World Never Quite Conquers?

Just when NATO forces in Afghanistan thought the Taliban were finally less of a threat, they staged an astonishing comeback Monday when they broke about 488 of their colleagues, mostly fighters and commanders, out of a maximum-security prison. Five days before the mass escape from Kandahar's Sarpoza prison, Defense...

Obama Sending Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA

WASHINGTON -- In a major national security reshuffle, President Barack Obama is sending CIA Director Leon Panetta to the Pentagon to replace Robert Gates, a widely praised Bush holdover, and replacing Panetta at the spy agency with Gen. David Petraeus, the high-profile commander of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Obama's...

Obama Reportedly to Make Major National Security Leadership Changes

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans this week to name CIA Director Leon Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, would take the CIA chief's job in a major shuffle of the nation's top national security leadership, administration and other sources...

Afghan Forces Recapture at Least 65 From Taliban Jailbreak

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan forces have recaptured at least 65 of the prisoners who escaped from the south's largest prison, the government said Tuesday as it scrambled to recover from the massive security breach that allowed 480 inmates to be spirited out in a stunning jailbreak. Prison officials discovered early...

NATO: Key al-Qaida Figure Killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - A NATO airstrike earlier this month killed a key al-Qaida operative in Afghanistan - a regional commander in charge of suicide bombings and cash flow, the international military coalition said Tuesday. NATO identified the man killed in the April 13 airstrike in Dangam district of eastern Kunar...

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Ed Miliband Looks Awkward In Afghanistan (PHOTOS)

Even when he's being serious, he can't help but make us smile.

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Afghanistan: NATO Airstrikes Killed 8 Civilians

Afghan authorities said on Sunday that an airstrike by the U.S.-led NATO coalition killed eight members of a family in eastern Afghanistan.

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British Soldier Killed In Afghanistan Explosion

A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.

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Francois Hollande, France President, Considers French Troops' Afghanistan War Mission Completed

France's new president said on Friday that his country's troops had carried out their mission in Afghanistan and that it was time for them to leave, an early pullout that will be coordinated with the United States and other allies.

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Greta Van Susteren: The Taliban Is Aggressively Back in Action -- Are We Turning Our Back on the Women and Girls?

First... no, I don't have the answers and I don't pretend to have them.

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05/28/12 Fallen Marine's letter marks Memorial Day in Kabul Source: Portland Press Herald - Portland ME U.S. Marine Sgt. William Stacey was killed earlier this year by a homemade bomb in southern Afghanistan, a tragedy for which he prepared by writing a letter to his family explaining why he was fighting that was to be read in the event of his death.
05/28/12 Memorial Day: Remembering those killed in Iraq,... Source: NBC/ABC - WTLV NBC 12/WJXX ABC 25 First Coast News - Jacksonville FL I was inside an armored personnel carrier that had already crossed the bridge, near where the roadside bomb was triggered by an unseen insurgent.
05/28/12 An Afghanistan Veteran Shares The Heartbreaking Story... Source: Military & Defense - Business Insider The most important memorial to fallen Marines is one that you probably will never see.
05/28/12 This Memorial Day, Some Sobering Statistics (UPDATED) Source: The Moderate Voice The Huffington Post has published a piece on the Associated Press report that Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate.
05/28/12 U.S. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War... Source: Alternet.org Democracy Now! returns to Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization's six-decade history, where nearly 50 veterans discarded their war medals by hurling them down the street in the direction of the NATO summit.

Background on Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Persian/Pashto: , Afġānistān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming part of South Asia, Central Asia, and Greater Middle East, it is also considered to be part of a broader West Asia.

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