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An ambitious push by the international community to set up an endgame in Afghanistan will hinge on its ability to break the Taliban insurgency around the country's urban areas. No urban area is more important than Kandahar city. Continued Below...

A rogue Afghan police officer opened fire at a checkpoint in southwest Afghanistan, killing six police officers and injuring two, an official said Monday. The shootings occurred Sunday morning in Nimroz province's Khash Rod district, said provincial police chief Gen....

President Obama welcomes Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Washington Monday for talks on Afghanistan and climate change, the White House said. Rudd's visit to the White House begins a week in which Obama plans to announce his strategy for...

Last Modified: 11/29/2009  2:32 AM Afghanistan: As of Saturday, at least 849 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

He said the role of leaders was more important in Army than technological advancement, as it is the human factor that dominates the battlefield. As many as 261 cadets, including four foreign cadets (from Bhutan), who have passed out, put...

When the president takes the podium at West Point on Tuesday, he'll draw not only from America's experience at war in Afghanistan, but from the Soviet Union's as well. Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution talks to guest host Robert...