The Taliban have engaged in a lightning offensive that has seen them seize the strategic city of Ghazni and 9 other provincial capitals in a week - Copyright AFP/File ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A wedding was called off because international troops killed the groom. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a police patrol. An old woman was beaten by the Taliban ...

The Taliban continues to wrack up a string of major victories today. Kandahar City, the country’s second largest city, collapsed after Taliban forces besieged it for more than two months. It is the ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A wedding was called off because international troops killed the groom. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a police patrol. An old woman was beaten by the Taliban ...

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld expressed confidence Tuesday that Afghan opposition forces would defeat the Taliban at their last stand in Kandahar, and he all but ruled out sending ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Rupert Colville – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 11 December 2001 ...