(For full coverage on Afghanistan, double click on[ID:nAFPAK]) (Recasts with details about aircraft, quote) KABUL, July 20 (Reuters) - A military aircraft used byNATO-led forces crashed shortly after take-off from a majorbase in southern Afghanistan on Monday, alliance officialssaid, the second ...Read More
CAMP LEATHERNECK, AFGHANISTAN -- In the late 1950s, scores of U.S. engineers transformed a swath of uninhabited desert in southern Afghanistan into verdant farmland by constructing a network of irrigation canals fed by the Helmand River. The Afghan government filled ...Read More
NEAR LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - U.S. Army soldiers launched a major operation Tuesday in support of a planned U.S.-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan.
NATO and Afghan officials, meanwhile, urged militants holding Marjah, where an offensive is ...Read More
NEAR LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - U.S. Army soldiers launched a preliminary operation Tuesday in support of a planned U.S.-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan.
NATO and Afghan officials, meanwhile, urged militants holding Marjah, where an offensive is ...Read More
KABUL, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- A British service man with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in an IED (improvised explosive device) strike Monday in southern Afghanistan. A press release issued Tuesday by the ISAF confirmed the ...Read More
ZARI, AFGHANISTAN -- Four of the Army's hulking mine-resistant armored vehicles had just been bombed into submission.
They stood immobilized off of Highway 1, southern Afghanistan's most important thoroughfare, at the point where an earlier bomb had blown out the asphalt, ...Read More
KABUL - A bomb killed two British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, the military said today, raising Britain’s death toll to that in the Falklands war. The grim milestone followed a warning by British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth that more casualties were ...Read More
NATO commanders in Afghanistan say a planned military offensive in a southern Taliban stronghold is meant to defeat the militants and win the support of the population. U.S and British troops are set to launch what has been described as one ...Read More
KABUL -- Three British soldiers have died in southern Afghanistan, officials announced Monday, raising Britain's death toll in the conflict to 256 - breaking the number of Britons lost in the Falklands war of 1982.
Britain reached the grim milestone as ...Read More
CAMP SHORABAK, Afghanistan -- Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an upcoming offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.
The pending attack on the Taliban-held ...Read More
Past the concrete slabs and guards in heavy combat gear, a wooden board at the entrance to an allied military base in Afghanistan shows an image of Wyatt Earp, the legendary lawman of the American Wild West. His features are ...Read More
In southern Afghanistan, Taliban militants are digging in for a fight against NATO forces preparing a massive assault on a key insurgent stronghold. Witnesses say Taliban fighters are bringing in weapons supplies and digging in around Marjah in Helmand province, home ...Read More
QUETTA, Pakistan -- If Afghan Taliban fighters and their top leaders are roaming around this remote part of Pakistan as the U.S. alleges, the police chief here says he hasn't seen them.
"Point them out to me," Abid Hussain Notkani says. ...Read More
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants are massing and preparing for a big fight ahead of a major NATO offensive in an insurgent stronghold in southern Afghanistan, villagers fleeing the area said on Sunday.
U.S. Marines are set to launch ...Read More
ISTANBUL -- For the upcoming Battle of Marja, the element of surprise has already gone by the wayside. NATO ministers and commanders, gathering Thursday and Friday in Istanbul, could barely contain themselves about a major military offensive set to launch 2,000 ...Read More
ISTANBUL - The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that security there is no longer deteriorating, a view that represents his most optimistic assessment yet. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, meeting with reporters in advance of a NATO meeting here, ...Read More
ISTANBUL-Gen. Stanley McChrystal, head of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, said he no longer believes the battlefield situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating, the first time he has made such a determination since taking command in Kabul last summer.
Gen. McChrystal ...Read More
Reporting from Istanbul, Turkey - The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that security there is no longer deteriorating, a view that represents his most optimistic assessment yet. Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, meeting with reporters in advance of ...Read More
No bombs nor rockets - just a spectator yelling during a tight game of the Kandahar Ball Hockey League, played Monday through Friday nights at NATO's biggest military base in southern Afghanistan. There's no ice and no puck, but no matter. ...Read More
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines are preparing to take on a southern Afghanistan Taliban enclave in a massive show of force intended as a decisive start to President Barack Obama's "surge" of 30,000 extra troops. The assault, ...Read More
