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President Obama will meet with U.S. congressional leaders of both parties next week before he announces his Afghanistan policy, lawmakers' aides confirmed. Democratic and Republican leaders from the House and Senate, key committee heads and ranking minority members are scheduled...

December 7 to raise more forces for its Afghan mission, which currently involves 65,000 U.S. troops and 39,000 from allied nations, including 9,000 from Britain. Brown told Rasmussen he would invite key allies in the Afghan coalition to London in...

Pakistani soldiers killed 18 militants on Tuesday in a campaign to break a network orchestrating attacks on Western forces' supplies to Afghanistan and carrying out bombings, a security official said. Any heavy casualties inflicted on militants in the Khyber region...

Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin, who last week gave explosive testimony about the possible torture of detainees captured by the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, sent reports about the issue to the office of the minister of foreign affairs. Hundreds of police...

Afghan detainees were sent to Peter MacKay's office in 2006 when he was foreign affairs minister, the Star has learned. The messages were sent a year before the government redrafted its prisoner transfer agreement to seek better protections. MacKay is...

Three Afghan cabinet ministers and 12 former ministers are under investigation for alleged corruption, the attorney-general's office said yesterday, announcing cases that could signal whether the government is serious about fighting graft in its ranks. President Hamid Karzai pledged in...

QinetiQ , the defence technology company recently under fire over a Nimrod plane crash in Afghanistan, faced flak in the City today when it issued a profit warning over its full-year figures. Shares slumped 8.23% to 163.8p as the group,...

The Liberal government takes heat for the prisoner transfer, with Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark saying they could face a US military tribunal and death penalty. Dec. Chief of the defence staff general Rick Hillier signs Canada's first detainee transfer...