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US and NATO Actively Backing Taliban Peace Talks

(Oct 14) -- Earlier this spring, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates described Afghan President Hamid Karzai's attempt to open negotiations with the Taliban as premature. As long as the insurgents thought they could win the war, he said, they wouldn't come to the table. But in a remarkable turnaround, NATO officials have...

NATO Chief Sees More Big Missions in the Future

(Oct. 8) -- Despite flagging support within NATO for its mission to pacify Afghanistan, the military bloc's leader said today he expects the alliance to take on similarly ambitious missions in the future. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, outlining his hopes for a new strategy document NATO leaders will debate next...

Operation Dragon Strike: Battle for Kandahar Begins

(Sept. 27) -- American and Afghan troops have launched Operation Dragon Strike, a major battle to reclaim the strategic southern province of Kandahar -- birthplace of the Taliban -- in a bid to turn around the nine-year-old war. In the past week, NATO and Afghan forces have shifted from guarding aid workers and sipping...

Seven US Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

(Aug. 30) -- Seven U.S. soldiers were killed by bombs today, one week after America's top military leader declared that the allies had turned the tide against Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan. Five service members were killed by one blast, and two others died in a separate attack, according to the NATO-led...

Pentagon Bounces Rolling Stone Reporter: What Embed Ground Rules Actually Say

(Aug. 4) -- The pen is mighty, but the Pentagon has ways to keep it in check. So learned Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings on Tuesday when the military announced it would not allow him to embed with the U.S. army in Afghanistan. The decision comes a month and a half after the release of his explosive article on Gen....

Background on international security assistance force

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), often called the Coalition Forces, is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 by Resolution 1386 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement.

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