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When Gen. David Petraeus testified before Congress recently, the top American commander in Afghanistan gave a generally upbeat assessment — but he acknowledged that military successes won't win the ...

Taliban claim Pakistani air strikes in eastern Afghanistan killed 9 children and a woman. Tensions rise amid cross-border ...

At work last Thursday in the office of his headquarters, a huddle of mud huts in the southern Afghan desert, in Shahwalikot, Hamid Karzai had no reason to be concerned by the rumble of a B-52 bomber ...

The recent outrage over reports of systematic child rape by Afghan security forces may be justified, but sadly there is little novelty to the reports themselves. Even the Sunday New York Times article ...

A battle with U.S. troops in Afghanistan's western Herat province that ended April 30 left scores dead. But exactly who was killed is the subject of a fierce debate that has eroded Afghan support for ...