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Japan's parliament cleared the way Friday for its navy to return the Indian Ocean on a U.S.-backed anti-terror mission, after stiff lobbying from Washington in support of the measure. The DPJ, the party that took control of the upper chamber in elections last year, opposes the m …
The United States prepares to send additional combat troops to Afghanistan for this spring's fighting season while our NATO "allies" in Europe remain sucking their thumbs and shirking their responsibilities as they have done since the "good war" there began.
As the Bush administration struggles for a way to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a similar effort to scale down a larger and more secretive American detention centre in Afghanistan has been beset by political, legal and security problems, officials say.
The Pentagon orders about 3,000 new IED-resistant armored vehicles.
"Obama said the U.S. continues to focus its resources on the wrong war, and instead should be doing more in Afghanistan. He said the U.S. troop increase was not the answer to Iraq's problems and was not achieving the needed political benchmarks."
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Australia's new defense minister warned U.S. and NATO allies over the weekend that they risk losing the war in Afghanistan without a sharp shift in military and reconstruction efforts there, according to his office.
"Iraq and President Bush's war on terrorism -- and Washington's inability to focus on more than one major foreign crisis at a time -- have overshadowed the geographic nexus of Islamist extremism.
This interview really blew me away. I thought it would be some sort of crime of neglect not to seed it.
Sgt. Joshua Brennan, who hoped to become a Madison police officer like his father, chose to go back for another tour to help his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan, friends and family said at his funeral today.
KABUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Afghanistan, the world's biggest heroin producer, is struggling to cope with a drug problem as thousands of Afghans -- trying to cope with the traumas of war, displacement and poverty -- are becoming addicted to narcotics.
Six years after the September 11 attacks in the United States, the "war on terror" is failing and instead fueling an increase in support for extremist Islamist movements, a British think-tank said on Monday.
Canada's new foreign affairs minister urged the United Nations on Tuesday to appoint a high-level special envoy to Afghanistan, saying the monumental task of rebuilding and stabilizing the beleaguered country is too great for one nation "to tackle it alone."
It looks more like something from the Terminator, but this huge machine is what British troops will be using on the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan against the insurgents.
It was by pure chance that I stumbled across Bush's live speech on CNN when I tried to watch the much hyped God's Warriors. I was intrigued by the Larry King interview with Christian Amanpour earlier in the day, so I thought I wanted to see it.
This is terrible. Having been in the military I know that it's difficult to seek out and find people to talk to about this sort of thing. Some people are too scared that they will be discharged to talk to anybody about nearly anything personal.
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents shot dead a South Korean hostage in Afghanistan on Wednesday and threatened to kill 22 others, but a deadline passed without word from the kidnappers or the Afghan government.
A leading pro-Taliban tribesman has blown himself up after he was surrounded by Pakistani forces near the Afghan border.
Mohammed Zahir Shah, the former Afghan king, has died aged 92. Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, speaking from the presidential palace, said: "With paramount grief, I would like to inform my countrymen that ...
Talk about why so many Muslims hate the United States these days, and you'll hear plenty of self-flagellation, at least in some quarters of post-9/11 America. I have too much affection for the United States to join in.
The head of the army has warned that Britain is almost running out of troops to defend the country or fight in military operations abroad.
US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan - an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed - that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. As a result the US is having to import supplies from Israel.
McNeill repeated in an interview with US News and World Report last week a previous statement to Reuters that he did not agree with the charge.
those who seek to destroy Evil -- whether it be America, or President Bush, or the right-wing political faction that has supported the Bush presidency -- are, by definition, the embodiment of Good.
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