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Brig. Gen. Levent Colak, center,the top Turkish commander in Afghanistan and currently the commander of international peacekeeping force guarding the Afghan capital is flanked by unidentified Turkish officers during a visit to the Afghan military high school... View Photo »
Before a mission, U.S. Army Crew Chief Spc. Emil Rivera, of Tuscon, Ariz. , left, and flight medic Sgt. Bryan Eickelberg, of Arden Hills, Minn. , both with Charlie Company, Task Force Talon, sit inside their Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter, in Helmand... View Photo »
A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, right, used by Charlie Company, Task Force Talon, powers up before a mission, at a forward operating base, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. The Talon MEDEVAC in Helmand is one of several army... View Photo »
U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines stop to make camp outside of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. View Photo »
U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines dig their sleeping holes outside of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Tuesday, February 9, 2010. View Photo »
Airborne in a Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter en route to a hospital, U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael G. Patangan, from Houston, Texas, left, and fellow medic Sgt. Bryan Eickelberg, of Arden Hills, Minn. , both with Charlie Company, Task Force... View Photo »
U.S. Marine Brigadier General Larry Nicholson speaks to U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines at Belleau Wood outpost outside Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Tuesday, February 9, 2010. View Photo »
An unidentified Afghan man mourns near the dead body of an avalanche victim at a hospital in Charikar, some 50 kms north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least... View Photo »
Afghans, carrying a few possessions, walk towards a restaurant after being evacuated following heavy snow which caused an the avalanche in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain... View Photo »
Afghan people wait in line to board army trucks after heavy snow caused an avalanche in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least... View Photo »
Afghan men help a man to climg inside an army truck after an avalanche struck following heavy snow in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital,... View Photo »
Afghan people crowd inside a restaurant as they wait for transportation after an avalanche struck following heavy snow in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's... View Photo »
Afghan women struggle to get inside an army truck near Salang Pass, after an avalanche struck, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least 28 people... View Photo »
Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar, center, speaks during a press conference as, William R. Crosbie, left, Canadian ambassador in Afghanistan and Graham Muir, Canadian Police Commander listen in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Atmar also unveiled... View Photo »
The shadow of a Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter banking hard as soldiers from Charlie Company, Task Force Talon fly on a mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. The Talon MEDEVAC in Helmand is one of several army... View Photo »
Map locates Marjah in Helmand province, Afghanistan, where a U.S./Afghan offensive against Taliban militants is imminent. View Photo »
U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael G. Patangan, from Houston, Texas, with Charlie Company, Task Force Talon, checks an instrument during a mission aboard a Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb.... View Photo »
Gulab Mangal, governor of Helmand province, speaks to the media in Kabul February 9, 2010. Afghan villagers should stay inside and "keep their heads down" when thousands of U.S. Marines launch a massive assault on a densely-populated district in coming days,... View Photo »
BERLIN - FEBRUARY 09: German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger arrives for the weekly German government cabinet meeting on February 9, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. High on the morning's agenda was the continuation of German involvement in the... View Photo »
BERLIN - FEBRUARY 09: German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg arrives for the weekly German government cabinet meeting on February 9, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. High on the morning's agenda was the continuation of German involvement in the ISAF... View Photo »
Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, Persian: جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان), is a landlocked country located at the heart of Asia. Generally considered part of Southern Asia, it is sometimes ascribed to a regional bloc in either Central Asia or the Middle East, as it has religious, ethno-linguistic,... Full Article
Map locates Marjah in Helmand province, Afghanistan, where a U.S./Afghan offensive against Taliban militants is imminent.
View Photo »Map locates Salang Pass in Afghanistan where an avalanche killed dozens and stranded hundreds of vehicles.
View Photo »Afghanistan's coach Kabir Khan speaks to his players during the friendly match between Afghanistan and United Arab Emirates at Sharjah cricket stadium, Sharjah , United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.
View Photo »Afghanistan's captain Nowroz Mangal attends the friendly match between Afghanistan and United Arab Emirates at Sharjah cricket stadium, Sharjah , United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.
View Photo »Afghanistan cricket team warms up before the friendly match with the United Arab Emirates at Sharjah cricket stadium, Sharjah , United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.
View Photo »Richard Holbrooke (L), the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan chats with U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Operations, during the 46th Conference on Security Policy in Munich February 7, 2010.
View Photo »Former British Ambassador in Afghanistan Mark Sedwill, left, speaks after he was introduced as NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and commander of the U.S. Forces in Afghanistan...
View Photo »Richard Holbrooke, US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, greets prior the begin of the second day of the annual Munich Security conference in Munich, southern Germany, on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Politicians and military representatives will join for the annual Munich Security conference...
View Photo »A woman carries a small paper coffin, reading: 'Afghanistan- to die for the homeland', during a protest rally in Munich, southern Germany, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Politicians and military representatives join for the 46th Munich Security conference in downtown Munich, from Friday, Feb. 5...
View Photo »Soldiers wait to board a plane to Afghanistan during a deployment at the Fort Campbell Army Base in Fort Campbell, Ky. on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010.
View Photo »Afghanistan's Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak (R) chats with U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates (L) and British Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth (C) during the Informal Meeting of NATO Defence Ministers non-NATO ISAF Contributing Nations in Istanbul February 5, 2010.
View Photo »A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, right, used by Charlie Company, Task Force Talon, powers up before a mission, at a forward operating base, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. The Talon MEDEVAC in Helmand is one of several army aero-medical units positioned...
View Photo »U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines stop to make camp outside of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.
View Photo »U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines dig their sleeping holes outside of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Tuesday, February 9, 2010.
View Photo »U.S. Marine Brigadier General Larry Nicholson speaks to U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines at Belleau Wood outpost outside Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Tuesday, February 9, 2010.
View Photo »An unidentified Afghan man mourns near the dead body of an avalanche victim at a hospital in Charikar, some 50 kms north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least 28 people and leaving hundreds more...
View Photo »Afghans, carrying a few possessions, walk towards a restaurant after being evacuated following heavy snow which caused an the avalanche in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital,...
View Photo »Afghan people wait in line to board army trucks after heavy snow caused an avalanche in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least 28 people and leaving hundreds...
View Photo »Afghan men help a man to climg inside an army truck after an avalanche struck following heavy snow in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least 28 people and leaving...
View Photo »Afghan people crowd inside a restaurant as they wait for transportation after an avalanche struck following heavy snow in the Salang Pass, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least...
View Photo »Afghan women struggle to get inside an army truck near Salang Pass, after an avalanche struck, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least 28 people and leaving hundreds more stranded...
View Photo »Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar, center, speaks during a press conference as, William R. Crosbie, left, Canadian ambassador in Afghanistan and Graham Muir, Canadian Police Commander listen in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Atmar also unveiled a pilot model policing program...
View Photo »The shadow of a Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter banking hard as soldiers from Charlie Company, Task Force Talon fly on a mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. The Talon MEDEVAC in Helmand is one of several army aero-medical units positioned around...
View Photo »Bulgarian soldiers attend an official welcoming ceremony after returning from Afghanistan at Bulgaria's capital Sofia airport, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Two hundred and sixty Bulgarian soldiers who were deployed at the airport of Kandahar, Afghanistan, to carry out for security returned to...
View Photo »Mark Sedwill, left, the newly appointed NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, replies to a question as Golab Mangal, governor of Helmand province looks on during a press conference at the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan,...
View Photo »Map locates Salang Pass in Afghanistan where an avalanche killed dozens and stranded hundreds of vehicles.
View Photo »Thirty percent of US casualties in Afghanistan have come on Obama’s watch
The ordinary Afghan people, whether they are women or men, so not support the Taliban, do not want to see a return of the Taliban government - but, yes they want to see improved government tin Afghanistan.
Rahm said: ‘We’ve got these two Boeing 747s circling that we are trying to bring down to the tarmac [healthcare and the decision on the Afghanistan troop surge] and we can’t risk a flock of f***ing Canadian geese causing them to crash,’
The American public gives Obama essentially identical ratings on his handling of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In September, the last time that presidential job approval on the two wars was measured in the same survey, Americans rated Obama's handling of Iraq substantially higher than his handling o...
Al Qaeda leaders have issued statements encouraging Pakistani Muslims to ‘resist’ the American ‘occupiers’ in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to fight against Pakistan’s ‘US-allied politicians and officers’
Al Qaeda forces that fled Afghanistan with their Taliban supporters remain active in Pakistan and reportedly have extensive, mutually supportive links with indigenous Pakistani terrorist groups that conduct anti-Western and anti-India attacks
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 town of Marjah in Helmand province will be a crucial test for the NATO stra...
At least 16 Taliban members were killed during an Afghan/NATO-led military operation in southern Afghanistan, a local official told CNN on Saturday. The operation started Friday night in Babji village of volatile Helmand province — the region where U.S. and British forces are gearing up for a major push...
Most of us believe the greater threats are the transnational non-state networks, primarily the extremists -- the fundamentalist Islamic extremists who are connected to al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula or al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Which raises the question: Is the US objective in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, or is it to secure the country for Pakistan? To New Delhi, the answer looks increasingly like the latter
The United States tried twice during the Bush administration to attack in Afghanistan and in Iraq, but could not attain its goals, not in Iraq nor in Afghanistan. We see that the Americans are facing the most difficult conditions in Afghanistan and believe [the US] has no real strategy there.
The US tried twice, during President Bush's term, to strike in Afghanistan and in Iraq, but failed to reach its destination, both in Iraq and in Afghanistan. We see that the Americans are facing very difficult conditions in Afghanistan, and we believe they have no real and realistic strategy.
You've got the Taliban and al Qaeda operating in the FATA and these border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan... What we haven't seen is the kind of concerted effort to root out those safe havens that would ultimately make our mission successful
went on TV and conservative talk radio and praised (Obama’s) troops surge in Afghanistan.
Our overarching goal remains the same: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies in the future.
U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, said the success of the operation depends on convincing civilians that the government will improve services once the militants are gone
No matter that this bad Commander-in-Chief has taken more concerted and aggressive action against Al Qaeda--more drones, more covert actions in Yemen and Somalia, more support for Pakistani military campaigns agains the Taliban, more troops for Afghanistan
I don’t know whether there are more of them. We have certainly degraded their capacity in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We know that. As the president said the other night, we have killed and captured a significant number of Al Qaeda’s top leadership as well as people in the Taliban organizations in Afghani...
I think that most of us believe the greater threats are the transnational non-state networks, primarily the extremists -- the fundamentalist Islamic extremists who are connected, al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula, al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, al Qaeda in the Maghreb, I mean, the kind of connectivi...
There was profound anarchy in Afghanistan when the Taliban took over ... There were no institutions, just rival factions duking it out.
Any agreement reached with the Taliban in Afghanistan should include a clear commitment to respect and protect women's rights
Al-Qaida doesn't want to have peace in Afghanistan, and they don't want to finish the war ... Day by day, they make trouble. Us and other local people in Afghanistan are scared of them the most.
We are working with our partners to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to seek a world free of nuclear weapons. We banned torture. We have begun to leave Iraq to its own people. We charted a new way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and made good progress in taking the fight to al-Qaeda across th...
Al-Qaeda's base of operations was in Afghanistan
The number of Taliban fighters is increasing day by day, not only in the south but in the north of Afghanistan as well
150 killed in Afghanistan avalanches (Second Lead) - http://upne.ws/BUrL
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@pixelshark Afghanistan spider http://twitpic.com/12ctce quite a cool story http://bit.ly/96Ii2o
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