Afghanistan

Republicans snort that he was bluffing all along when he said he would get tough in Afghanistan.

A candidate for president must be at least forty years of age, a Muslim, and a citizen of Afghanistan.

Among the least peaceful states clustered at the bottom of the list are Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan.

The Pentagon stated there was no evidence the WikiLeaks reports had led to anyone being harmed in Afghanistan.

Over the course of a single three-week period in 2006, he said he faced down more bombs than in his first two months in Afghanistan.

The president later told us that the "surge" in Afghanistan would bring decisive results within a year.

He said he intends to shift some combat brigades from Iraq to Afghanistan if he is elected in November.

They had to leave due to fighting between security forces and militants in the tribal area of Bajaur, along the Afghanistan border.

A man called Pollitt's home number and ordered her to "go back to Afghanistan, you bitch" .

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the head of NATO, warns that if the West abandons Afghanistan, "al-Qaeda would be back in a flash" .

Yet, although Western leaders have done a poor job at explaining the war in Afghanistan to their voters, a defeat there would be a disaster.

There are people who say trying to create a strong central government in Afghanistan is going against the grain of the country.

Critics of the war in Afghanistan (and perhaps even its supporters) will detect at least a whiff of jingoism in the game.

But with a nod to the increased attacks in parts of Afghanistan, he did not rule out a small uptick in U. S. troops there.

But before then, he said, he will be deployed to Afghanistan within months of his graduation from Cambridge.

He said the change was necessary to maintain a 'unity of effort' in Afghanistan.

How much of Afghanistan's rugged territory can America realistically secure?

What Afghanistan required was that the highest levels of the U. S. government focus on implementing their policy objectives.

Thankfully, as the United States was bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan during the last decade, Chinese passivity didn't matter much.

Petraeus had been appointed commander of U. S. Central Command, which had ultimate authority over Afghanistan.

He said he accompanied the young bride-to-be to Afghanistan in July 2000.

Senior officials described nervousness within the administration about how quickly Afghanistan will be ready to take charge.

In a Washington Post interview last week, Karzai said the United States must reduce its military operations in Afghanistan.

"That's why I decided to leave Afghanistan and resign from my job, " he said.

If the Soviet Union did not collapse, Afghanistan would be a communist right now.

He said he admired China's achievements in social and economic development and described China as a true great friend of Afghanistan.

He said he had "never talked up the situation in Afghanistan, which is exceptionally serious" .

"Yes, there are insurgents coming across the border, " he said at the U. S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

And one evening, I was sitting next to a very nice gentleman in Kabul, and he asked what I thought would be good in Afghanistan.

And as I said, he may very well be responsible for the deaths of American soldiers in Afghanistan.

In private meetings in New Hampshire last week, he suggested that he thought the US mission in Afghanistan was all but hopeless.

NATO spokesman James Appathurai said the main subject at the sixtieth anniversary meetings would be the NATO operations in Afghanistan .

She said the military itself, examining its experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, has come to recognize the limits of the use of force.

About a year ago, Simpson was knocked unconscious by the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade during a firefight in Afghanistan.

I'm somewhat familiar with that portion of Afghanistan, having spent quite a bit of time there.

Most of the migrants trying to reach Australia this year are escaping fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

A coordinated torrent of praise from the main foreign missions in Afghanistan began to gush a few hours after polls closed.

A strategic review of the war will also be conducted as Afghanistan gets permission to increase the number of its own troops.

A senior White House official said the speech Tuesday won't be primarily about escalating the war in Afghanistan, but about ending it.

O'Hanlon said the U. S. military will bring some of the capabilities developed in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

One of its programs is called Dog Tags, specifically to assist wounded veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.

When I got to his house I found Jim working on an article about the current situation in Afghanistan.

The worst is Afghanistan, where a woman is at least 200 times more likely to die during childbirth than from bombs or bullets.

It was the fifth anniversary of the day a young man from New Hampshire was killed in Afghanistan, but she made no mention of that.

S. commander in Afghanistan for tens of thousands of more troops -- called Mr. Karzai to congratulate him on his 'constructive' action.

He said Afghanistan was abandoned to its fate after the Soviet army withdrew and extremism flourished.

Schmitt's first call back to The Times was encouraging. There was no question in his mind that the Afghanistan dispatches were genuine.

Speaking at the National Defense University, Obama said the country is still at war with terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"Their aim seems to be to prolong the war in Afghanistan by aiding both the Americans and us, " says the logistics officer.

Nuristan province of Afghanistan, police said, were being hijacked to the provincial capital, ready to join the police force.

"I would give anyone an exemption from the higher rates if he had a son or grandson in Afghanistan, " he said.

Mr bin Laden would no doubt like to control another state (as he once did from Afghanistan).

If there was agreement at next week's conference in London, Afghanistan would be in a position to run its own affairs.

Isn't US using Afghanistan and India trying to destory Pakistan in the name of Al-Qaida?

Our commander in Afghanistan, Tommy Franks, recently said the Senator's understanding of events does not square with reality.

It would be a mistake for the United States to walk away from Pakistan and Afghanistan again, Clinton said.

Two British soldiers at a base in Antrim took delivery of a last pizza before deploying to Afghanistan and were mown down in the street.

In 2009, newly elected President Obama vowed to press on in Afghanistan in a fight he said the United States had to win.

And he referred to his ongoing discussions with NATO allies about his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In the United States, President Obama said he wouldn't hurry into a decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan.

Its sprawling base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina has emptied out, with all four of its brigades now fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How excellent it would be if Mr Sarkozy's sweet talk this week brought not just more soldiers for Afghanistan but a reversal of that policy.

It had something of a return address in Afghanistan, but doesn't now.

As a result, Islamic radicalism now seems to be becoming an increasingly serious threat to India just as it is in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Thousands of mer Marines there have been send sent to Iraq, and thousands more are getting ready to be deploy deployed to Afghanistan.

The American government will be looking hard for signs that Afghanistan is closer to being able to stand on its own two feet.

The bombing was one of the most deadly in Kabul since the U. S. -led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 .

However, he also indicated that Afghanistan was prepared to accept whatever decision the international peacekeeping might have.

Her troubles over Afghanistan will not be so easy to settle.

Genghis had "no trouble at all overrunning the place, " and his descendants would build wide-ranging kingdoms using Afghanistan as a base.

Fars said the aircraft, which was en route to Afghanistan, was forced to land at an Iranian airport that it did not name.

The president promised the American people that the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would come to what he called a responsible end.

Moving away from Afghanistan now and cars running on nothing but the rays of the sun are racing across the Australian outback.

Gates said the United States would like to see NATO commit its rapid response force for a short-term deployment to Afghanistan.

Most of the time in Iraq or Afghanistan when Western reporters went out on the front lines, they went on embeds with American troops.

He said that the US had to make preparations for a shift of American soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan.

China also has a common interest with the United States in improving security in Afghanistan and Iraq, he said.

The Taliban in Afghanistan have told the BBC that there is no question of their entering into any kind of negotiations with Nato forces.

During the presidential campaign, he said he would redeploy troops from Iraq to Afghanistan.

He described Kandahar as "culturally probably the most significant place in terms of the Pashtun people of Afghanistan" .

And in assessing Afghanistan's ability to deliver services, Byrd makes the point that the country "started out with very little. "

"Afghanistan will remain a strong and good and economically viable partner with the United States and our other allies, " he said.

Thirty years of war have had a terrible effect on Afghanistan's agricultural infrastructure.

He has said he wants to transfer some of the concepts used in Iraq to the increasingly difficult fight in Afghanistan.

This would be a huge step, threatening an open-ended entanglement, though Libya's population is only a fraction of Iraq's or Afghanistan's.

Thousands of Marines there have been sent to Iraq, and thousands more are getting ready to be deployed to Afghanistan.

"We do not operate detention facilities on board Navy ships. DoD detention facilities are in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo, " he said.

Afghanistan was nothing but a third world country with the ruthless Taliban preventing any growth what so ever to occur in their country.

But trying to garrison Afghanistan with foreign troops would be even more expensive.

He spoke in a very eloquent classical Arabic that he said had learned in madrasas in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

But trying to garrison Afghanistan with foreign troops would be even more expensive.

He spoke in a very eloquent classical Arabic that he said had learned in madrasas in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Someone like that's bound to have enemies so it shouldn't have been a surprise but I hadn't seen anyone shot since Afghanistan.

In Herat, where the Habibi family landed, the reality of Afghanistan turned out to be far from the fabled country her mother had depicted.

He said the files showed that "thousands" of war crimes may have been committed in Afghanistan.

Frankly, I'm skeptical that productive use can be made of them in Afghanistan but that seems to be the way the political winds are blowing.

He said he intends to shift some combat * brigades from Iraq to Afghanistan if he is elected in nNovember.

The president has not revealed how much the new initiatives would cost, or how long he expects U. S. troops to stay in Afghanistan.

And it was only after they failed to garner real support in the Arab world that they ran back to Afghanistan and began to target the West.

But Obama packaged it nicely, wrapped it with a bow and declared, perhaps prematurely, that his "surge" in Afghanistan had been a success.

When western politicians talk about "credibility" in Afghanistan, it is often their own credibility they are worrying about most.

More to the point, NATO allies are turning up the heat on Germany to let its soldiers fight in Afghanistan's much more dangerous south.

Aman Ullah lost both of his legs more than a year ago while serving in the Khyber tribal area on the border with Afghanistan.

Fars said the aircraft was later allowed to continue on to Afghanistan.

Wali Karzai served as the head of the provincial council and was one of the most powerful leaders in southern Afghanistan.

Certainly, there are complexities to understand, but Afghanistan is not more complex than any other war fought at any other time.

How much the case of the Afghanistan documents involves doing that, and whether the risks outweigh the benefits, has yet to be seen.

Because the only realistic way he would have gotten interested in Afghanistan is if it had been wearing a miniskirt and sported C-cups.

A Taliban spokesman said the fate of these people in the East High Commission in the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Soldiers are questioning how much they'll use digital chem lights in Afghanistan's mountainous, largely-rural terrain.

The moment was captured by the behind-the-scenes cameras, offering a reality TV moment uncomfortably close to Afghanistan's reality.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the president said, the United States is determined to defeat al-Qaida and extremist forces.

But a big expansion of the US military presence in Afghanistan had not been part of the calculation.

If we move forward with such a meeting, it is expected that Iran would be invited as a neighbour of Afghanistan, she said.

Saifullah said he would not discuss America, al-Qaida or the war in Afghanistan.

He also said the main thrust of U. S. and allied strategy is to dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

It took over a year to develop with the APTC before going through final testing with the British Army in the harsh terrain of Afghanistan.

"A very small number" of European governments believe Afghanistan is on the front-line of the war on terror, says one senior Brussels man.

He said he would send more military trainers and U. S. civilian personnel to Afghanistan.

The Sunday Times in London quotes the British commander in Afghanistan as also saying the Taleban cannot be defeated on the battlefield.

All this, in other words, comes close to the most important foreign-affairs issue facing Mr Obama: how to get out of Afghanistan.

State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley said the two agree that their countries share "a mutual interest in a stable Afghanistan. "

The Pentagon believes that it is possible for Afghanistan to become one of the world's most significant mining centers.

In the pit of that conflict tens of thousands of people were dying each year, at least ten times more than in Afghanistan today.

Despite what happened next, Mr. Frans said the organization would not be deterred from its work in Afghanistan.

The top US Commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has said the security situation there is no longer deteriorating.

He said a larger police force will free up NATO and U. S. troops to concentrate solely on military actions to help stabilize Afghanistan.

Clinton said the Obama administration is trying to "move in a direction that will leave a stable Afghanistan. "

Clinton said the U. S. , Afghanistan and Pakistan face a "common enemy" with extremists.

It was the winter of 1979 and a few days later, Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan, across the palace, crunching what was left.

Intelligence officials said the head of al-Qaida's operations in Afghanistan used a middleman to communicate with him.

Just as quickly, a year later, after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, the spigot was turned off.

And with the U. S. pinned down in Iraq and Afghanistan there's little Washington can do to scare Iran into changing its ambitions.

By the time I reach the legal age to be president, I hope the people of Afghanistan are ready to accept a female president.

Still, he he said a "tough, hard campaign" lies ahead in Afghanistan, "with its share of setbacks and heartbreak. "

They are trying to hide their defeat by taking revenge on the innocent people of Afghanistan, he said.

One of the soldiers was shot in the leg in Iraq, and is now serving in Afghanistan. The other broke a leg on a training exercise.

Back in New York, Ms Moore is preparing for the next book cycles, which will include children's stories in Haiti, Bolivia and Afghanistan.

His final undoing was an interview he gave on returning from his first visit to Afghanistan.

But more than a year ago, the president said, "America has no interest in fighting an endless war in Afghanistan. "

The chief, said the report, from NATO headquarters in Southern Afghanistan, "states he needs the money to run his operation. "

He said part of his strategy would be "taking the fight to al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "

Western diplomats are ready to try more imaginative approaches in looking for political solutions in the region and in Afghanistan itself.

The Australians have stood with the United States in Afghanistan, and have been a dynamic trade partner.

The attack comes just a day after another bomber claimed the life of the Police Chief of Kandahar in Southern Afghanistan.

Our military has put the terror training camps of Afghanistan out of business, yet camps still exist in at least a dozen countries.

Officials in Afghanistan say that at least seven people have been killed in a bomb explosion in the south of the country.

Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.

But it is surely now apparent that the protection of human rights in Afghanistan cannot ultimately be secured at the point of a foreign gun.

As the war in Iraq winds down and America begins to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, the United States stands at a pivot point.

He said that Afghanistan is making progress in every reconstruction effort and is faced with an opportunity for further development.

On a recent trip to Afghanistan, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox drew fire for calling it "a broken 13th-century country. "

Kyrgyzstan says it has ordered US forces to leave an air base that serves a key supply facility for US and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

Word of their deaths reached Washington in the midst of a detailed White House review of the president's Afghanistan war strategy.

What he does for charity - the FACT he took time to visit the Troops in Afghanistan - well done, David. As I said, a true gent.

He said about his service in Afghanistan that it was about as "normal" as he would ever get.

A powerful cross-party parliamentary committee has strongly criticized the British government for its handling of the war in Afghanistan.

He said that China is the only neighbouring country that has helped but never harmed Afghanistan.

US observation point "Rock" in Afghanistan is referred to as "the haunted observation point" by American troops, The Times reported Monday.

She offered a small olive branch in the form of a promise to strengthen the German presence in Afghanistan.

"Yet the government was not prepared to go into Afghanistan in 2001, or Iraq in 2003, using large numbers of contractors, " he said.

One of the key architects of that engagement is the newly-appointed U. S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker.

Does ancient Hellenistic art made and found in Afghanistan, once on the edge of the Greek empire, belong to Greece or to Afghanistan?

Rifleman Wood was wounded in Afghanistan by a bomb and is one of only three triple amputees who have survived the war.

Pakistan said the militants have suffered heavy losses and have been pushed over the border into Afghanistan.

For soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the most dangerous threat comes not in the form of a bullet, but a bomb.

But he never did the same with the American ambassador, Karl Eikenberry, a former commander in Afghanistan.

Back in 1979, it was Afghanistan - when Russian tanks rolled across the dusty Hindu Kush to prop up a struggling communist regime.

ALLIED gloom about the war in Afghanistan tends to be seasonal.

The extent to which this conventional wisdom had taken hold came out clearly in both Iran and Afghanistan.

If defence is cut further, Slovak troops will have to pull out of one of their overseas missions: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Kosovo or Bosnia.

Obama said Afghanistan had "not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires. "

The last time most of these veterans heard bomb blasts and gunshots was the day they nearly died in Afghanistan.

Mr. Obama has made clear that he has no enthusiasm for "nation building" projects in Afghanistan that go on for years or are unsustainable.

He said Washington and Tehran share strategic interests in combating Afghanistan's spiraling opium trade and the resurgence of the Taliban.

Years after apparent victory, America is still bogged down by an apparently endless insurgency in Afghanistan.

In operation since 1993, it has been used to deliver troops and humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Some analysts believe that the U. S. tend to distance Iran, Pakistan and China are close to the troops in Afghanistan to extend the time.

Pte Bergdahl is believed to be the first soldier seized in either Iraq or Afghanistan for at least two years.

However, that does not mean U. S. forces will be engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq for decades or in large numbers indefinitely, he said.

McCain said he would soon visit Iraq and Afghanistan to assess the military situations there.

I know you were all ears last night to the president's speech and the new plan for Afghanistan.

But this time Afghanistan's usually rather effective intelligence service failed to pinpoint what was coming over the horizon.

Australia announced that it was suspending its processing of asylum-seekers from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka for a few months.

He said finishing the mission in Afghanistan must be done in a united way, not dictated by each member's domestic financial situation.

No doubt George Bush and Dick Cheney thought that both Iraq and Afghanistan would be precisely such focused, limited operations.

One of these deep cover ISI units may have been keeping the retired Osama on ice, pending a US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Viewers come away with a sense of Afghanistan's long history as a battleground for foreign interests and rival powers.

Pakistan exists in a region whose history has overlapped that of India, Afghanistan and Persia (Iran).

As al-Qaeda's operational commander in Afghanistan, he is believed to have had a hand in everything from finances to operational planning.

A child waiting at an Air Force base in California for his father -- a SEAL deployed to Afghanistan -- to return home.

Bin Laden has never been found and is believed to still be hiding in the mountainous border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"Pakistan and Afghanistan are conjoined twins. Our suffering is shared. Our joys are always shared, " he said.

After the war in Iraq and with the war in Afghanistan in full swing, a people-to-people soft sell might be just the thing.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the deal was Moscow's contribution to resolving the complicated problems in Afghanistan.

Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq . Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.

It appears that most of those on the boat were fleeing Afghanistan, a country where Australian troops are currently fighting the Taliban.

The new packs were sent to Afghanistan last week to be tried out by personnel in all armed forces across the next three months.

Karzai said it is now up to the youth of Afghanistan to take over the responsibility for security in the country.

In Afghanistan, we were all part of the lengthy analysis to determine the way forward.

Britain will withdraw half of its troops from Afghanistan over the next two years.

Conditions on the ground prevented airdrops of humanitarian aid over Afghanistan, but drops were expected to resume Friday, he said.

The American Manas air base, or "transit centre" , as it is now called, is used for supporting American and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

The tactic has often been used in American-led operations, including those in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He was assigned to a combat outpost, one of a number of smaller bases set up by foreign forces in Afghanistan, the officials said.

More than 260, 000 contractor employees have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan, at times outnumbering the military they support.

They are said to have regrouped in Mohmand, a tribal area close by the border with Afghanistan, which the army thought it had conquered.

Barack Obama's remarks came as he is winding up a world tour that has taken him to Afghanistan, the Middle East and Germany.

Between the militants and the politics, the U. S. military and its allies have been looking for other ways into Afghanistan.

"It's only two weeks in Afghanistan, " he says, with a glint in his eyes. "But it's two weeks longer than anyone else. "

On paper, the government of Afghanistan requires that drivers pass a test to get a license, but few people here seem to have one.

The illegal narcotics trade is said to be a major cause of instability in Afghanistan and is believed to be funding Taliban insurgency.

His clearest recent statement of intent on Afghanistan so far is the one he gave to NBC's "Meet the Press" .

In fact, while users in the United States are supporting plenty of unsavory characters, they aren't likely to be in Afghanistan.

In the early years of the Afghanistan war, coalition policy included widespread forced eradication.

"The bottom line is that when it comes to Afghanistan, this summit and this alliance have delivered, " he said.

American forces in Afghanistan already seem to be following that advice.

But at least Afghanistan's accelerating decline seems at last to have been admitted.

Alone among Osama's two dozen or so children, Omar was selected by his father to accompany him to Afghanistan.

We were caught up in a discussion about the situation in Afghanistan when the professor walked into the classroom.

The UK aim is very clear - to stop him and al-Qaida coming back into Afghanistan, and the hope that the Pakistanis will deal with him.

As a friendly neighbour of Afghanistan, we sincerely hope to see an early realization of peace and stability in Afghanistan.

Obama said the continued military effort in Iraq has distracted from major security challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

And Afghanistan, that complicated, hapless place, has long been a victim of its geography.

Over the next three days, thousands of health workers will fan out across six volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan.

The British Defense Minister John Hutton says the killing of a senior rebel commander in Afghanistan is a significant blow to the Taliban.

In Afghanistan, the besieged city of Kunduz appears ready to fall to the Northern Alliance.

But Mullen emphasized the administration has a new strategy in place in Afghanistan, and is moving forward.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, female soldiers ended up in firefights, they were serving in frontline units.

"NATO's defeat in Afghanistan would not be good for us, " he said.

In the late 1990s, for propaganda purposes, Bin Laden invited select journalists to meet him in caves near Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan.

S. policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan that have failed to counter the Taliban or shore-up the two countries' U. S. -allied governments.

Before sunrise, a soldier stepped out on to Afghanistan's main highway and raised both hands in the air.

During his seven years in London, Moussaoui's family and French investigators say he traveled to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Chechnya.

So far, there has been a curious absence of man pad attacks on NATO aircraft in Afghanistan.

They call, even in Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia such a place, you can hardly imagine that once there is so much press on board.

Afghanistan war is what Vietnam War repeats itself, which will be the last straw to break the back of the American hegemonic power.

And he could see that, even as some Europeans pressed for action in Libya, they were pushing to cut their contributions to Afghanistan.

The strikes began shortly after an offer from the Taliban to put Osama bin Laden on trial in Afghanistan was rejected by the United States.

Mullen says he has "no idea" what's going to happen in the next month in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan. Are we, at the moment, striking back? And if so, is the target Osama bin Laden and his organization?

The problem was a radio interview he gave after visiting German troops in Afghanistan.

He said that he would never rush the solemn decision of sending his troops to Afghanistan in harm's way.

An attack on an Israeli border patrol by assailants on a motorbike is said to have borne the hallmarks of training in Afghanistan.

Mr. bin Laden was able to elude capture by hiding out in the mountains of Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Mr Putin had said that he had no intention of gloating about Afghanistan, before adding: "But the age of American arrogance is over. "

After the expiration of the contract, they should dissolve the company and out of Afghanistan.

A curfew is in place in Afghanistan after rioting ripped through the streets.

Mr Bush did not even consider raising taxes to pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; he cut them instead.

The Pentagon and the rest of the U. S. government have learned quite a lot about security force assistance from Afghanistan.