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ANDKHOI, Afghanistan, May 26 (UPI) -- At least 12 Taliban militants were killed in clashes between militants and local residents in northern Afghanistan, local authorities said. Deputy provincial council member Abdul Jame Jame said 15 other ...  

A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier died in Afghanistan Thursday, the fourth JBLM soldier to die there since May 18.

Pfc. Cale C. Miller, 23, of Overland Park, Kan., died near Maiwand, Kandahar Province, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device, according to the Department of Defense.

 

KABUL, (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament approved on Saturday a strategic pact between Kabul and Washington, clearing the way for a U.S. presence in the country for at least a decade after most foreign combat troops leave in 2014. "This was done for the interest of Afghanistan," said Daoud Kalakani, an MP from Kabul. Around 180 MPs were present and only four voted against, Kalakani said. The deal, signed by U.S. President Barack Obama and...  

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 25 (UPI) -- A soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said.  

SEATTLE, Wash. —A soldier based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was killed in Afghanistan on Monday when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised exposive device near Maiwand, Kandahar Province, the Army announced today.  

Afghanistan's parliament on Saturday ratified a strategic partnership agreement between Kabul ... U.S. relationship with Afghanistan beyond 2014 when most NATO forces are planning to conclude their combat role. It does not commit the U.S ...  

Our troops have been helped by an increased use of bomb and IED-sniffing dogs, as well as an increase in “devices to detect roadside bombs as they are being put into place or when they lie buried ahead of U.S. foot patrols and convoys.”  

The mood engulfing much of the Western world involved in the Afghanistan conflict was all too evident at the two-day Nato Summit that concluded in Chicago on Monday. The US President, Barack Obama, hosted the event as one of his last foreign policy gatherings before this year’s presidential election. While members of the Nato, or the North Alliance Treaty Organisation, discussed ways to ...  

The top American official in the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith, has been vocal about the allegations of voting fraud that apparently gave incumbent President Hamid Karzai a victory. Galbraith wanted the Afghan Independent Election ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Legislators say Afghanistan's parliament has approved a strategic partnership agreement with the United States. The approval came in a vote Saturday and by a simple majority of those present in the 249-seat body.Parliamentarian Mohammad Iqbal Safi from Kapisa province and others say more than 150 representatives were present.He said the vote was by show of hands, with an overwhelming majority approving and less than...  

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KABUL: Afghanistan’s parliament on Saturday voted by an overwhelming majority to ratify a strategic partnership agreement with the United States signed earlier this month, lawmakers said. “We voted with a majority in favour of the strategic ...  

French president Francois Hollande made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan president to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year and meet Afghan president Hamid Karzai, whom he saw briefly last week in Chicago.  

KABUL, Afghanistan—Legislators say Afghanistan's parliament has approved a strategic partnership agreement with the United States. The approval came in a vote Saturday and by a simple majority of those present in the 249-seat body ...  

The ALP was set up by General David Petraeus when he commanded Isaf (the International Security Assistance Force) in Afghanistan. It is partly modelled on militias, which turned the tide against the Iraqi insurgency when he was leading Coalition ...  

A soldier from San Jose was killed in Afghanistan Wednesday, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Travis A. Morgado, 25, was killed when insurgents using an improvised explosive device attacked his patrol in Zharay, Afghanistan. Morgado was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.  

French President François Hollande made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Friday to meet with French troops and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Hollande defended his decision to withdraw French forces from the country by the end of the year.  

At least 4 people have ... after Pakistani and US officials held meetings during the recent Nato summit on Afghanistan in Chicago. Relations between the two countries had been frosty since 24 Pakistan soldiers were killed in a Nato air strike ...  

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN : A coalition service member was killed on Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a brief statement. It raises the number of foreign troops ...  

On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, when the nation salutes its war dead, the Marine Corps' top general in Afghanistan cautioned Friday that more than two years of combat lie ahead before all American military forces are scheduled to be withdrawn.  

KABUL, Afghanistan — Legislators say Afghanistan’s parliament has approved a strategic partnership agreement with the United States. The approval came in a vote Saturday and by a simple majority of those present in the 249-seat body.  

France's new president said on Friday that his country's troops had carried out their mission in Afghanistan and that it was time for them to leave, an early pullout that will be coordinated with the United States and other allies.Francois Hollande arrived early that day in Afghanistan to meet with troops and Afghan President Hamid Karzai to discuss plans to pull out 3,300 troops more than a year earlier than scheduled. His visit was not...  

At the recent NATO Summit in Chicago, Alliance leaders agreed that the Afghan National Security Forces will move into the lead for combat operations in mid-2013, allowing the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, to shift to a support ...  

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A U.S. Army medic from Springfield was injured by an IED in Afghanistan. Heidi Olson, a 2010 George Fox University graduate, has been flown back to the United States for treatment, according to GFU Public Information Officer Rob Felton. Felton says 23-year-old Olson was one of three Army medics who was injured in an IED explosion on May 8 in Kandahar. He says it happened when one of the other medics stepped on an IED...  

A U.S. sailor who died last week of medical complications was the 3,000th death among coalition forces in the Afghanistan war, according to CNNs count based on information provided by the U.S. Defense Department and the International Security Assistance Force.  

A Michigan guardsman who lost his arms in an attack on a patrol in Afghanistan was pinned under the gun turret of his vehicle when it flipped over after being hit by a roadside bomb. An officer in the unit gave credit to an Afghan National Army medic who worked with a National Guard medic to save the injured soldier’s life.  

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — France's president defended his decision to pull the country's 2,000 combat troops out of Afghanistan two years early, telling French soldiers stationed in the east on Friday that "the time for Afghan sovereignty has come." While Paris will still support Kabul and keep some trainers behind, France's decision to leave ahead of oth...  

KABUL: After a decade of a costly and deadly war, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force has decided to leave Afghanistan amid increasing Taliban-led terrorist activities. In a two-day NATO summit concluded in Chicago on Monday, the 28 ...  

Approximately 21 Afghan air force air wing security forces led their first quick reaction force patrol outside the gates of Kabul, Afghanistan, International Airport May 21. The AAF security forces were accompanied by seven members of the 439th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron who trekked up the mountain with the AAF security forces to give advice and guidance throughout the mission. But before the AAF security forces squadrons left base...  

A US drone attack has killed at least four militants in a northwestern Pakistani tribal district bordering Afghanistan, according to security officials.The attack took place early Saturday, at a house near Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan tribal district, a known hide-out of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants, the Pakistani officials said."A US drone fired two missiles at a house and at least four militants were killed," a...  

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan faces tougher security challenges in the next phase of a transition from foreign to Afghan forces as insurgents step up their attacks, Afghan officials said on Thursday. President Hamid Karzai is expected to announce on Sunday ...  

KABUL, May 24 (Xinhua) -- After a decade of a costly and deadly war, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has decided to leave Afghanistan amid increasing Taliban-led terrorist activities. In a two-day NATO summit concluded in ...  

defending his plan for their early exit after meeting his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai. Hollande was strongly criticized at a NATO summit last weekend for accelerating France's withdrawal of its roughly 3,400 troops in Afghanistan to the end of this ...  

Kabul, May 4 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai, explaining his signing of a strategic pact with the United States, said Washington has bowed to many of his demands. Karzai said the Strategic Partnership Agreement signed Tuesday evening in Kabul ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan — France's president defended his decision to pull the country's 2,000 combat troops out of Afghanistan two years early, telling French soldiers stationed in the east on Friday that "the time for Afghan sovereignty has come.  

NATO soldier killed following roadside bomb explosion - Improvised explosive device explosion kill NATO service member in southern Afghanistan on Thursday.US Cuts Pakistan AidU.S. House reviews overbilling by Afghan contractorFrench President in Afghanistan to Meet With Karzai‎Reported security incidents#1: Fareed Ayal, a spokesman for the police in Uruzgan province, says a police vehicle hit a roadside mine Friday in Chora district, killing...  

The U.S. military is on a path toward significantly fewer battlefield deaths in Afghanistan this year because it has become better at detecting the No. 1 killer of U.S. troops: the improvised explosive device (IED). With the 2009 surge forces ...  

The Taliban are not capable of taking back Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says. The Taliban are not capable of taking back Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said as he sought to reassure his war-torn country's Western backers over ...  

The 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division held a memorial ceremony Thursday on Kelley Hill in honor of brigade soldiers who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan ... teams lead by the U.S. State Department.  

PARUN, Afghanistan, May 23 (Xinhua) -- A senior Taliban leader was killed Wednesday in a NATO drone attack in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a police source said. "The Taliban deputy shadowy governor for Nuristan named Shaikh Jamil and another ...  

Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape NATO’s exit from Afghanistan, one of the war’s victims, 12-year-old Aleema, sums up her life in three words: “It’s the worst.” Aleema, who has lived in a mud hovel ...  

The second day of their two-day summit focused on Afghanistan, with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the heads of other countries contributing to the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force also in attendance. Obama wanted NATO to commit to long ...  

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer will interview with Afghan President Hamid Karzai this afternoon. Karzai is in the U.S. to attend the NATO Summit in Chicago. Karzai met with President Obama yesterday (pictured). NATO countries are expected to sign off today on Obama’s exit strategy from Afghanistan, which calls for the withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of 2014. The interview is slated to air today in the 5pmET hour of “The Situation Room,” which Blitzer...  

CHICAGO -   Leaders of the 28 NATO countries ended their summit in Chicago on Monday, pledging an "irreversible" commitment to transition in Afghanistan.  The leaders committed to greater efficiencies, while reaffirming the alliance's defense commitments. Afghan President Hamid Karzai sat with NATO leaders and representatives of other nations whose support Afghanistan will need if it is to move from war to stability. NATO leaders formally...  

WASHINGTON: Days after the NATO Summit in Chicago endorsed his exit plan from Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama today said that he would end the Afghan war by 2014. "Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat to this country and al-Qaeda is on ...  

Chicago   - The international community will continue partnership with Afghanistan after the withdrawal of Nato-led forces by 2014, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. Ban made these remarks after meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the sidelines of the two-day Nato summit.The secretary-general said the Chicago summit was an important milestone that underscored, and that the ...  

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, perhaps best known in the West for periodic well-aimed jabs at his NATO allies, is embarking on a determined charm offensive as he faces the prospect of seeing troops and, perhaps even more ...  

Kabul (AFP) May 23, 2012 Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape NATO's exit from Afghanistan, one of the war's victims, 12-year-old Aleema, sums up her life in three words: "It's the worst." Aleema, who has lived in a mud hovel in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul for four years since her family fled fighting in southern Afghanistan, is one of the forgotten people of the NATO s  

The man in charge of the war in Afghanistan said Wednesday that about a quarter of the American troops there will begin coming home "very shortly." Gen. John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said that 23,000 ...  

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Rohrabacher have been at loggerheads over the congressman's push for a more decentralized Afghan government. Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the disagreement, Karzai said he is against letting Rohrabacher into ...  

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (pictured) thanked the United States today for shouldering much of the cost for the decade-old war in Afghanistan, as the NATO alliance readies to hand over primary responsibility to Afghan security forces. Link  

After more than a decade of fierce fighting in Afghanistan, the Nato-led Isaf force has taken its war with the Taliban to an entirely different battleground. On Tuesday, the International Security Assistance Force’s press office got into ...  

Last month, Afghan President Hamid Karzai denied Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) entry into Afghanistan because, a spokesperson for the Afghan government said, the California congressman “speaks against the good of Afghanistan and tries to ...  

CNN - Found 5 hours agoNEW: Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks exclusively to CNN's Wolf Blitzer NEW: He says Afghan forces will "absolutely" be ready to take over security by 2014 President Obama says NATO leaders are leaving Chicago with a "clear road map" NATO's secretary general says a new training and advising ... NATO Formally Agrees to Transition on Afghan Security - New York Times...  

Afghan President Hamid Karzai thanked the United States today for shouldering much of the cost for the decade-old war in Afghanistan, as the NATO alliance readies to hand over primary responsibility to Afghan security forces.  

HERAT, Afghanistan, May 23 (Xinhua) -- A total of 15 Taliban insurgents laid down their arms and ... "Fifteen Taliban fighters gave up fighting and joined the peace process in Chasht district, Herat today," police spokesman of the province Noor Khan ...  

If Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, an influential member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is looking for a country to visit as a member of a congressional delegation, he can cross Afghanistan off his list. Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Rohrabacher have been at loggerheads over the congressman's push for a more decentralized Afghan government. Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the disagreement, Karzai said he is against...  

Toronto StarShow of NATO unity over unpopular Afghan warChannel News AsiaCHICAGO: US President Barack Obama and NATO allies put up a united front Sunday to persuade a war-weary public that the Afghan conflict will end in two years, as President Hamid Karzai vowed Afghanistan will no longer be a "burden.Chicago Police Plan To Keep Their Cool During NATO Summit ProtestsNPRAfghanistan and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign on show at...  

KABUL (Reuters) - People in Afghanistan were surprisingly optimistic on Tuesday about NATO's plan to pull combat troops out of their war-ravaged nation by the end of 2014, but warned Western leaders to stick to aid and security promises. A Chicago summit meeting of the 28-member bloc, attended also by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other world leaders, endorsed an exit strategy on Monday that calls for handing control of Afghanistan to its...  

An Afghan-led, coalition-supported security force detained an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan facilitator and several other insurgents during an operation in the Argo district of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province today, military officials reported.  

Gen. John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said that 23,000 of the 88,000 U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan will be home by September 30, 2012. The so-called Phase 2 drawdown is going to begin "very ...  

Chicago (CNN)-- More work must be done before NATO troops pull out of Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said as he met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday. "There will be great challenges ahead. The loss of life continues in Afghanistan.  

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai, perhaps best known in the West for periodic well-aimed jabs at his NATO allies, is embarking on a determined charm offensive as he faces the prospect of seeing troops and, perhaps even more ...  

21 May 2012 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday that the United Nations would provide technical support, at the request of the Government of Afghanistan, to organize the upcoming presidential election in Afghanistan.  

The DOD also reported the deaths of four other soldiers late Monday: Sgt. Michael J. Knapp, 28, of Overland Park, Kan., and Sgt. JaBraun S. Knox, 23, of Fort Wayne, Ind., died Friday in Asadabad, Kunar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy ...  

The NATO summit opens Sunday in Chicago. President Barack Obama is expected to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the summit's sidelines to discuss planning for Afghanistan's 2014 elections and the prospect of a political settlement with the Taliban.  

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Rohrabacher have been at loggerheads over the congressman's push for a more decentralized Afghan government. Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the disagreement, Karzai said he is against letting Rohrabacher into ...  

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama met Sunday morning with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, just hours before opening a NATO summit where the alliance is set to formalize plans to give Afghanistan's security forces primary responsibility for that ...  

The dignitaries keep rolling into Chicago for the NATO summit, including the leader of one of the world’s most troubling areas. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai touched down in Chicago Friday. One-on-one talks are scheduled for Sunday with US President ...  

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai ahead of NATO talks on the war in Afghanistan. Ms Gillard arrived in Chicago on Saturday, local time, ahead of a major NATO summit on the war in Afghanistan hosted by US President ...  

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Gulam recalls the evening she fled her home in northern Afghanistan on foot, running with her teen daughters under the cloak of darkness to avoid cooking a dinner for 20 Taliban insurgents. "This Talib burst through ...  

"Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service members died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan today," NATO said in a statement, without giving further details on the location of the incident or the nationalities of the casualties.  

CHICAGO - Hopes for a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit bringing together the U.S., Afghan and Pakistani presidents appear to have dimmed, and analysts say this is due to the lack of a full agreement with Pakistan on reopening NATO supply lines into Afghanistan.     President Barack Obama met on Sunday in Chicago with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, but his schedule includes no one-on-one interaction with Pakistan’s President...  

With the Taliban still resilient after a decade of war, NATO leaders sought to reassure Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the international community would not abandon his country after combat troops are gone. The 50 nations involved in the war endorsed a ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 (UPI) -- An attack on NATO forces in southern Afghanistan killed two soldiers Sunday, the International Security Assistance Force announced. The terse release didn't give details of the attack or the nationalities of ...  

London, May 24 (IANS) Over 120 schoolgirls in Afghanistan fell sick following a suspected poison attack by the Taliban, a media report said. Most were treated and discharged, but 30 of them were still being treated, an official told the BBC. An initial probe suggests that poisonous materials had been sprayed in classrooms at [...]  

Afghan police, backed by army and NATO-led forces, eliminated 18 Taliban militants and detained 23 other suspects during a series of operations across the country within the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Sunday morning. "The joint forces launched nine joint cleanup operations in Nuristan, Parwan, Baghlan, Badakhshan, Kandahar, Helmand, Logar, Ghazni, and Khost provinces, ...  

Afghan forces now lead security in areas covering 75% of the Afghan population, with the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) gradually reducing until late 2013, by which time Afghans will have the security lead nationwide. This ...  

CHICAGO, May 20 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama, after meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, said Sunday more work must be done before NATO troops can leave Afghanistan. "There will be great challenges ahead," Obama said at the NATO ...  

If there was a place in Afghanistan synonymous with the Taliban, it was the district of Marjah in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand. Two years ago, thousands of U.S. Marines and British and Afghan forces descended on this checkerboard ...  

KABUL: Two Nato soldiers were killed in an attack in Afghanistan Sunday, Isaf said, while police said at least two children were also killed as a suicide bomber targeted a Nato convoy. “Two International Security Assistance Force service ...  

CHICAGO—U.S. President Barack Obama promised the war in Afghanistan will end within two years as he met Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, before the start of a NATO summit during which the U.S. and its allies will work to solidify a strategy for ...  

CHICAGO — Afghan President Hamid Karzai thanked the United States today for shouldering much of the cost for the decade-old war in Afghanistan, as the NATO alliance readies to hand over primary responsibility to Afghan security forces. “I’m bringing to you and to the people...  

CHICAGO — President Obama met here Sunday morning with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, just hours before opening a NATO summit where the alliance plans to formalize plans to turn over primarily responsibility for the war to Afghanistan’s security forces next year. Read full article >>  

Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed the pronouncement, “so that Afghanistan is no longer a burden on the shoulder of our friends in the international community -- on the shoulders of the United States and our other allies.” But Defense ...  

US President Barack Obama said Sunday at a NATO summit that the world was behind his strategy to end the war in Afghanistan but warned there would be days of hardship ahead. Obama also said as he met Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the United States ...  

So, some pictures of a micro-UAV that was found during a raid on insurgent supply cache in Helmand Province, Afghanistan recently emerged on the Internet prompting some to wonder if this example of one of the Taliban or al Qaeda’s first ever homemade drones. I can almost guarantee it’s not. What I can (almost) guarantee [...]  

Even if he hasn’t seen combat, Spc. Joe Kunsch, an Army medic, had seen plenty in his first five months in Afghanistan. On daily patrols with Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, it’s almost a sure thing that Afghan civilians will ask him to attend to their injuries and ailments, everything from simple scrapes to cancer.  

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)-- In parts of rural Afghanistan a fierce battle is going on between the Taliban and the country's government. And the victims in this battle, it seems, are school children. Recently, the Taliban demanded the closure of ...  

KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Two US troops were killed Friday in a Taliban rocket attack on a NATO base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed the deaths of two service members, with ...  

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike on suspected Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan killed 10 people on Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff with Washington over NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. The pilotless drone aircraft attacked a compound in a village in North Waziristan, a day after a similar attack killed four suspected militants in the same region...  

On May 1, President Obama signed a strategic partnership agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai that would enable U.S. and NATO forces to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to assist with security and counter-terrorism. But NATO nations ...  

(CNN)-- At the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama and leaders of America's NATO allies agreed on an "irreversible" plan to withdraw from Afghanistan. But challenges remain. Despite the deliberately unambiguous word choice used to describe ...  

US President Barack Obama opened a NATO summit on Sunday saying the world backed his plan to end war in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai pledged his bloodied state would no longer be a ‘burden’.  

CHICAGO — President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai reaffirmed their commitment to creating a “transformational decade” in Afghanistan — despite reports Obama has all but abandoned hopes of reforming the corrupt and ineffective ...  

Kabul, May 11 (Xinhua-ANI): A man dressed in Afghan army uniform opened fire and killed a soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the eastern region of Afghanistan on Friday, the military alliance said in a statement ...  

AFP © <p>Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) speaks while meeting with US President Barack Obama during the NATO Summit in Chicago. Obama said Sunday at a NATO summit that the world was ...  

President Barack Obama says the NATO alliance agrees on a vision for post-2014 Afghanistan and is pressing world leaders to implement that strategy following a decade of war. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the transition in his country will ...  

U.S. officials have also released the identities of four U.S. soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan on Friday and Sunday. The department said 28-year-old Sgt. Michael J. Knapp, of Overland Park, Kansas, and 23-year-old Sgt. Jabraun S. Knox, of Fort Wayne ...  

EPAAfghanistan president Hamid Karzai (left) talks with President Obama before the start of the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago today. CHICAGO — The NATO alliance that has fought for a decade in Afghanistan is helping that nation shift toward stability and peace, but there will be "hard days ahead," President Barack...  

U.S. President Barack Obama pressed Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the NATO  summit in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday to engage with greater urgency in secret talks with the Taliban about a political settlement. Obama also urged Karzai to implement electoral reforms to cut down in the 2014 presidential election the kind of corruption that tarnished Karzai's re-election in 2009. The pair were speaking at the opening of a two-day...  

Some American and other forces will still be deployed but only in training roles, and there will be a massive bill for western taxpayers to pick up as well. Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the summit that his country will need $4.1bn (£2.6bn ...  

President Barack Obama huddled with President Hamid Karzai in Chicago ... and also to implement electoral reforms to diminish corruption and make elections more transparent. But Karzai is a survivor by instinct, and neither electoral reform ...  

Looking to a day when "the Afghan war as we understand it is over," President Barack Obama met Sunday with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to discuss NATO's withdrawal from that strife-torn country by the end of 2014. Obama, who has put the draw-down of combat troops at the heart of his foreign policy, declared that [...]  

AUSTRALIA will boost its aid to Afghanistan as part of an agreement signed by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her Afghan counterpart in the United States. Ms Gillard met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Chicago yesterday, on the sidelines of a major ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan security agents on Wednesday captured five would-be suicide bombers with more than half a ton of explosives who were apparently planning a massive attack near Kabul’s international airport, the country’s main ...  

President Barack Obama says the NATO alliance agrees on a vision for post-2014 Afghanistan and is pressing world leaders to implement that strategy following a decade of war, the Associated Press reports. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the ...  

Australia will boost its aid to Afghanistan as part of an agreement signed by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her Afghan counterpart in the United States. Ms Gillard met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Chicago on Sunday, on the sidelines of a major ...  

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, perhaps best known in the West for periodic well-aimed jabs at his NATO allies, is embarking on a determined charm offensive as he faces the prospect of seeing troops and, perhaps even more crucially, dollars slip away from his country.  

CHICAGO - President Barack Obama says the NATO alliance agrees on a vision for post-2014 Afghanistan and is pressing world leaders to implement that strategy following a decade of war. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the transition in his ...  

KABUL -- Two service members from NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died Sunday following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said in a statement. ISAF did not identify the nationality of the service members, in line with ...  

President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai will be among the world leaders gathering in Chicago Sunday for a NATO summit meeting on the war in Afghanistan. Topics of conversation will include preparations for elections in Afghanistan in ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two foreign women working for a Swiss-based aid group have been kidnapped in the remote northeastern province of Badakhshan, Afghan officials said Wednesday. Three male Afghan colleagues were abducted as well, but one ...  

An insurgent attack in Afghanistan killed two NATO service members on Sunday, the alliance said, while Afghan officials reported that a suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the country's south.  

CHICAGO -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai gave special thanks to the American people for shouldering much of the financial burden in the decade-old Afghan War. "Mr. President, I am bringing to you and to the people of the United States the gratitude of ...  

CHICAGO: Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in Chicago on Friday ahead of talks with US President Barack Obama and other Nato leaders at a key summit for Afghanistan’s future, an alliance official said. Obama will hold one-on-one talks with ...  

Updated 6:22 p.m. ET: CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed world leaders to help implement a strategy for post-2014 Afghanistan after U.S. troops leave, a transition that Afghan President Hamid Karzai ...  

UNITED States President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders solidified plans yesterday for an "irreversible transition" in Afghanistan, affirming their commitment to ending the deeply unpopular war in 2014 and voicing confidence in the ability of Afghan forces to take the lead for securing their country even sooner.  

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in Chicago on Friday ahead of talks with US President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders at a key summit for Afghanistan's future, an alliance official said. Obama will hold one-on-one talks with Karzai on Sunday on ...  

ISLAMABAD: Afghan Taliban on Tuesday rejected the decision of the US and NATO countries agreed in Chicago that the mission of the combat forces would come to an end in Afghanistan but some troops would stay behind to impart training to Afghan forces ...  

(Newser) – President Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai today at the NATO summit and urged world leaders to agree on post-2014 Afghanistan, MSNBC reports. "What this NATO summit reflects is that world is behind strategy we've laid ...  

CHICAGO — World leaders weary of war will tackle Afghanistan’s post-conflict future — from funding for security forces to upcoming elections — when the NATO summit opens Sunday. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai ...  

President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai will huddle on the sidelines of the summit Sunday morning for an hour-long meeting. Their talks are expected to focus on planning for Afghanistan's 2014 elections, as well as the prospect ...  

NATO leaders assembled on a summit in Chicago decided to hand control over security in Afghanistan to Afghan security forces by the middle of 2013. Foreign military units, acting in Afghanistan in the ISAF mission headed by NATO, will gradually move from combat to support missions, reported agencies. In a declaration adopted in Chicago, US President Barack Obama and 27 other Alliance leaders further confirmed plans to withdraw their service...  

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—Afghanistan's poppy crop—the source of most of the world's illicit opiates—appears to have suffered a devastating failure this year, U.S. and Afghan officials say, in a development that is likely to affect the course of the war ...  

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — President Barack Obama was expected to use the NATO summit on Sunday to meet with Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai and urge the Afghan leader to work toward a political settlement with the Taliban rebels.  

Aleema, who has lived in a mud hovel in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul for four years since her family fled fighting in southern Afghanistan, is one of the forgotten people of the Nato summit, which ended on Monday. There the focus was ...  

CHICAGO: In her first day of NATO meetings, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will hold formal talks with Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, as well as the newly elected French President, Francois Hollande.  

U.S. taxpayers got a shout out from Hamid Karzai at the NATO summit in Chicago. "I'm bringing to you and to the people of the United States the gratitude of the Afghan people for the support that your taxpayers' money has provided Afghanistan over the past decade and for the difference that it has made to the well-being of the Afghan people," the Afghan president said. A new registry shows at least 2,000 people have  been wrongly convicted...  

International News: Chicago, US President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked on Monday for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan, in an unmistakable snubto it. US President Barack Obama alongside secretary general of Nato ...  

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has approved at its Chicago summit plans to hand over security in Afghanistan to local forces by mid-2013 and to withdraw combat troops by 2014, pledging that Kabul "won't stand alone" and that Afghan troops will be ready to battle the Taliban. Scant progress in repairing ties with Pakistan suggests the withdrawal presents its own challenges. (May 22, '12)  

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The NATO summit's plan to "responsibly wind down" the Afghan war is not entirely in the hands of President Barack Obama and his fellow world leaders. The carefully orchestrated exit strategy could come unhinged if the ...  

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's poppy crop -- the source of most of the world's illicit opiates -- appears to have suffered a devastating failure this year, according to US and Afghan officials, in a development that is likely to affect the course ...  

Chicago Sun-Times political writer Abdon M. Pallasch is in President Barack Obama's NATO Summit press pool this Sunday and Obama exchanged remarks with him at the end of a meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. Why, Obama wondered, has there...  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the sidelines of the NATO summit on Sunday, the White House said, but there was no plan for Obama to have a bilateral get-together with his Pakistani ...  

President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders solidified plans Monday for an "irreversible transition" in Afghanistan, affirming their commitment to ending the deeply unpopular war in 2014 and voicing confidenc...Photo Credit: Getty Images  

President Hamid Karzai has been interviewed by the Russian media - RT, Rossiya-24 and RIA-Novosti. A controversial interview giving the other side of Afghanistan and Karzai's views on issues there. President Karzai speaks candidly to the Russian media in ...  

CHICAGO - President Barack Obama and leaders around the globe locked down an exit path from the war in Afghanistan, affirming Monday that they will close the largely stalemated conflict at the end of 2014, a strategy that means their troops will still be fighting and dying for another two-plus years.  

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, huddled together Sunday morning to grapple with stalled reconciliation talks with the Taliban. It was a measure of just how bad things have gotten between the United States and Pakistan that, by contrast ...  

On Sunday, the war in Afghanistan is expected to dominate discussions at the NATO summit. Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Zardari are both expected to attend the meeting. NATO leaders are currently on a timetable to ...  

Afghan war dominates NATO summit Top news: A two-day NATO summit got underway in Chicago on Sunday shortly after a deal to reopen supply lines through Pakistan to Afghanistan collapsed, placing the brittle relationship between the two countries at the center of the conference. President Barack Obama has reportedly refused to meet with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari without a deal on the supply routes, which were closed after an...  

The HinduNATO allies focus on ending unpopular Afghanistan warTimes of IndiaCHICAGO: US President Barack Obama and NATO allies will focus on Monday on logistical aspects of ending the protracted Afghan war after President Hamid Karzai vowed his country will no longer be a "burden" for the international community.US presses Pakistan to act against terror groups, reopen NATO routesEconomic Times`US doesn't want agreement on NATO routes fast`Zee...  

President Barack Obama says Afghanistan is on track to place the entire country's security under the lead of Afghan forces in 2013, relegating U.S.-led NATO troops to a support role a year ahead of the planned withdrawal of all NATO forces. (May 21)  

KABUL - Two Nato soldiers were killed in an attack in Afghanistan Sunday as alliance leaders gathered in Chicago for a summit dominated by plans to pull troops out of the Afghan war. Two children also died and several civilians were wounded as a suicide bomber ta geted a Nato convoy in Tirin Kot, capital of southern Uruzgan province, Afghan police said. At least 162 troops with Nato’s ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 23 (UPI) -- Afghan authorities said they are investigating a suspected poison attack at a school in the northeastern province of Takhar. More than 70 girls and three female teachers at the Bibi Haji school have fallen ill ...  

Telegraph.co.ukAl Qaeda and Taliban remain a threat in Afghanistan, US and British officials warnMyFox Washington DCCHICAGO -- A British official at the NATO summit in Chicago warned Monday of al Qaeda taking over lawless areas of Afghanistan when foreign troops withdraw in 2014, as the American commander of those forces admitted the Taliban remained "a capable ...Al-Qaeda could 're-emerge in Afghanistan after Nato withdrawal'Telegraph.co.uk...  

Today, world leaders from both sides of The Atlantic and beyond are gathered in Chicago for ... and most notably and recently the deployment of Australian troops to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.  

What will Afghanistan look like in 2014, after a dozen years of occupation, more than 2,800 NATO soldiers killed, and an expenditure of $1 trillion? If the participants in this week’s NATO summit in Chicago are to be believed, what they will ...  

With Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Chicago In Chicago for the NATO summit, attention turns to the biggest topic for the weekend: withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. The Los Angeles Times reminds us that Mr. Karzai has not been shying in ...  

BLITZER: President Karzai, welcome back to the United States. PRES. HAMID KARZAI, AFGHANISTAN: Thank you very much. Happy to be with you. BLITZER: Let's talk about your meeting you just had moments ago. You met with the president of the United States and the president of Pakistan. KARZAI: Yes. BLITZER: How did that go? KARZAI: Both meetings went very well. BLITZER: Did you have a three-way meeting, the three of you? KARZAI: No, we didn't have...  

CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama and leaders around the globe locked down an exit path from the war in Afghanistan, affirming Monday that they will close the largely stalemated conflict at the end of 2014, a strategy that means their troops ...  

Two NATO soldiers were killed and six others wounded in a rocket attack on their base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar Friday, an Afghan official with NATO forces said. Two other local officials confirmed the account, while the ISAF press office ...  

Chicago, May 22 : Al-Qaeda is likely to re-emerge in Afghanistan to threaten Western nations after NATO troops leave the war-torn country by 2014, ' time, alliance officials have admitted. A senior US general also warned that NATO forces would face combat ...  

US president urges Afghan counterpart to implement electoral reform, cut out corruption and press Taliban for settlementBarack Obama pressed the Afghanistan leader Hamid Karzai at the Nato summit in Chicago on Sunday to engage with greater urgency in secret talks with the Taliban about a political settlement.Obama also urged Karzai to implement electoral reforms to cut down in the 2014 presidential election the kind of corruption that...  

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber on foot attacked a group of American soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, apparently killing and wounding an unconfirmed number of them.  

U.S. Army Pfc. Kristina Batty dons a headscarf to meet with female Afghan villagers in Afghanistan's southern Ghazni province, May 5, 2012. Batty, a medic for a female engagement team, is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod  

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO set an "irreversible" course out of Afghanistan on Monday but President Barack Obama admitted the Western alliance's plan to end the deeply unpopular war in 2014 was fraught with peril. A landmark NATO summit in Chicago endorsed an ...  

NATO says a rocket attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed two of its service members. Local coalition officials say six other NATO troops were slightly wounded in Friday in the Nari district of Kunar province. So far this year, at least 154 coalition service members have been killed in Afghanistan. Officials say another insurgent rocket attack in the Watapoor district of Kunar killed two women and a child on Friday.  At least six...  

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO set an "irreversible" course out of Afghanistan on Monday but President Barack Obama admitted the Western alliance's plan to end the deeply unpopular war in 2014 was fraught with peril. A landmark NATO summit in Chicago ...  

New York TimesObama Leaves NATO With Message on Winding Down Afghan WarBusinessWeekBy Margaret Talev and Roxana Tiron on May 21, 2012 US President Barack Obama and NATO allies set in motion a plan to extract their forces from the long, unpopular war in Afghanistan, leaving the Afghans with broad promises of support once the coalition ...Obama, NATO agree: End their Afghanistan combat by 2014, short of saying ...Washington PostHarper remains...  

Kabul (AFP) May 12, 2012 Two NATO troops were killed by two men in Afghan police uniforms in southern Afghanistan Saturday, the military said, with Afghan sources identifying the victims as British soldiers based in Helmand province. A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the attackers were believed to be insurgents dressed as police, but a senior Afghan security official said the  

World leaders are meeting with President Obama in his hometown of Chicago for a two-day NATO summit focused heavily on Afghanistan. Obama warned of the difficulty ahead as the summit confronted questions about Afghanistan's future. The summit kicked off on Sunday with a meeting between Obama and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, the two key players to determine that future. "We still have a lot of work to do and there will be great...  

President Barack Obama and Nato leaders expressed confidence in Afghanistan's ability to take the lead for its own security next year, as nations with a stake in the deeply unpopular war met today for talks aimed at paving the way for its end. Related StoriesNasdaq chief embarrassed by Facebook glitchBlair heckled by protesters at a US collegeDon’t Occupy my wedding: Bride’s big day ruined as anti-Nato protesters descend on ChicagoDon't...  

Action by Taliban welcomed by government and clerics but insurgent says destruction was for religious reasonsTaliban fighters have destroyed fields of opium poppies in eastern Afghanistan this spring, the first time since 2001 the hardline Islamist group is known to have clamped down on the cultivation of a drug that provides a big part of its funding.While the insurgents appear to have dug up a relatively small area of poppies in a remote...  

NATO leaders said Sunday that they would hand over the lead role in combat operations to Afghan forces across the country by mid-2013, in a bid to show a united front after France’s new president announced he would withdraw French troops early.  

Chicago (AFP) May 21, 2012 NATO leaders vowed Monday to stand by Afghanistan as it takes control of its own destiny, backing a plan to hand Afghans the lead for security in the war-torn country from mid-2013. In a Chicago summit declaration, US President Barack Obama and his NATO military allies ratified an "irreversible" roadmap to "gradually and responsibly" withdraw 130,000 combat troops by the end of 2014. But  

NATO’s so-called withdrawal from Afghanistan is being called an “irreversible” course to end the war, but fundamental aspects of the war will continue far into the future and even President Barack Obama admitted the plan was fraught with ...  

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO mapped an "irreversible" course out of Afghanistan on Monday but President Barack Obama admitted the Western alliance's plan to end the deeply unpopular war in 2014 was fraught with risk. A landmark NATO summit in Chicago endorsed ...  

Maulvi Abdul Samad walked into the governor’s compound in the capital of Uruzgan province on a sunny, cold morning leading 13 of his fighters, veterans of countless battles, armed to the teeth with Kalashnikovs, machine guns and rocket propelled grenade launchers. Related StoriesRow over Pakistani blockade scuppers Nato's Afghan talksSuu Kyi to give Nobel speech, 21 years lateAfghans face terror threat after Nato exit, Obama admitsWorld's...  

United States President Barack Obama [ Images] on Sunday met his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai [ Images] to discuss the transition process in Afghanistan. "We recognise the hardship that the Afghan people have been through. Both of us ...  

Chicago: al Qaeda is likely to re-emerge in Afghanistan to threaten Western nations after NATO troops leave the war-torn country by 2014, '' time, alliance officials have admitted. A senior US general also warned that NATO forces would face combat with the ...  

President Barack Obama and the leaders of the NATO allies agreed Monday to end their guiding role in the decade-long war in Afghanistan next summer, saying it is time for the Afghan people to take responsibility for their own security and for the U.S.-led international troops to go home.  

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has arrived in Chicago for a NATO summit this morning, where Afghanistan will be on top of the agenda. Ms Gillard is due to meet US President Barack Obama and other NATO and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An insurgent attack in Afghanistan has killed two members of the international military coalition.NATO says the two died Friday in eastern Afghanistan, but did not disclose any other information.The heaviest fighting in the war is currently concentrated in the south and east of the country, although insurgents have opened new fronts in the north and west and continue to conduct suicide bombings in the capital, Kabul...  

Kabul (AFP) May 21, 2012 As NATO discusses its exit from Afghanistan at a summit in Chicago, Afghans fear that a meltdown in their corruption-plagued economy could follow the consequent drop in foreign funding. Cash that is desperately needed in one of the world's poorest economies is already making its own way out - $4.6 billion left through Kabul airport in 2011, almost double the amount in the previous year, the  

During the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama cemented his plans for what the end of the Afghanistan war will look like outlining the transition of power to Afghan troops and lasting support from the international community. Norah O'Donnell reports.  

The United States has nearly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan ... killed in ISAF air strikes. Karzai said then that the civilian deaths threatened the strategic pact. But both Crocker and Karzai were in Chicago for the NATO summit, where US ...  

Rockets crashed into a US base and a house Friday in a remote area of northeast Afghanistan along the Pakistan border, killing two Nato service members and three civilians, officials said.Related StoriesSwimming challenge: All at sea and out on a limb – but he doesn't mindSpecial Report: Helmand deaths prompt security rethink34 dead as bus plunges off bridge into river in VietnamBriton arrested in Thailand after being found with six roasted...  

The United States is the richest and best-equipped nation in the NATO alliance and long Afghanistan's largest patron. Obama signed a pledge with Afghan President Hamid Karzai this month that would obligate the U.S. for a decade. Several other nations have ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan — An insurgent attack in Afghanistan killed two NATO service members on Sunday, the alliance said, while Afghan officials reported that a suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the country’s south. NATO did not ...  

Lack of security in Afghanistan is a problem, which should be addressed collectively by the entire international community, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview with RIA Novosti, the Rossiya24 and Russia Today television channels in Kabul.  

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama has welcomed the security transition that took place in Afghanistan earlier in the day, saying world leaders will demonstrate their support for Afghanistan beyond 2014 in the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago. The White House put out a statement on Sunday evening saying Obama welcomes Afghan President Hamid Karzai's announcement earlier in the day of the ...  

CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders solidified plans Monday for an "irreversible transition" in Afghanistan, affirming their commitment to ending the deeply unpopular war in 2014 and voicing confidence in the ability of ...  

The Afghan-American “Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement” was signed by President Barack Obama and President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on May 2. The impact this agreement will have on the Afghan conflict is not yet clear. However, it could affect ...  

• Three protesters charged with terrorism related offences• Leaders in talks over eurozone at G8 summit • Nato summit to begin in Chicago on Sunday• Follow me on Twitter @AdamGabbatt• All times CT3.51pm: An interesting article from the LA Times, which says the country's president Hamid Karzai "is embarking on a determined charm offensive". I've not seen many pieces about the Nato summit written from Afghanistan's perspective."The Afghan...  

An insurgent attack in Afghanistan killed two NATO service members on Sunday, the alliance said, while Afghan officials reported that a suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the country’s south. NATO did not provide any further details ...  

The first Afghan to win a Pulitzer Prize collected winnings at Columbia University on May 21. But although the Kabul-based photographer's image shed the international spotlight on Afghanistan's underreported suicide bombings, the Afghan government has not ...  

Inside a plywood shack at a combat outpost in Marjah, in Afghanistan's Helmand province, three Marines sit before a bank of computers provided by the military to help keep up morale. The dingy outpost is made up of a collection of tents where ...  

As NATO leaders prepare to endorse President Barack Obama’s strategy for exiting Afghanistan at the organization's summit in Chicago, most Afghans are concerned that the international coalition is leaving the future of their country in the ...  

The Nato-led coalition in Afghanistan backs a US plan to reduce the size of Afghan forces and provide $4.1 billion in annual security aid in coming years, according to a draft declaration obtained by AFP yesterday. The text states that “Afghanistan will ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When leaders at the NATO summit eventually turn their discussion to Afghanistan and the alliance pullout in a little less than two years, they are likely to be confronted by a bleak reality. The insurgents remain active, corruption runs rife and the peace process is stuck in the sand after 11 years of a war President Barack Obama has said was thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks.Leaders of about 60 countries and...  

CHICAGO — As he prepared to open the NATO summit Sunday in Chicago, President Obama said Afghanistan is on track to achieving a “transformational decade” of peace and stability as U.S. and other combat forces begin to withdraw and as Afghan security forces take responsibility for keeping the Taliban insurgency at bay.  

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, get briefed prior to a patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers, May 8, 2012, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. The battalion deployed to Ghazni in March to help bring security to Highway 1, the country’s most important road for travel between Kabul and Kandahar. Photo by SGT Mike MacLeod.  

two U.S. soldiers were reportedly killed on Friday when insurgents fired rockets at their base. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the formal name of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, confirmed two ISAF members had been killed ...  

(The Associated Press) KABUL, Afghanistan — It was what President Obama called a “war of necessity,” a conflict thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks. As NATO’s mission here winds down nearly 11 years later, the insurgents remain undefeated, corruption runs rife and the peace process is stuck in the sand.  

How badly are things going in Afghanistan? The top U.S. and NATO commander, Gen. John Allen, told reporters it was "good news" that Afghan authorities had arrested 160 people in the last few months for plotting so-called "green-on-blue" attacks by Afghan security forces on their NATO-led international partners.  

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 13 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced Sunday the next phase of the transition of national security responsibilities from NATO to Afghan forces. Once Tranche Three, the third phase involving 122 more ...  

KANDAHAR, afghanistan — A suicide bomber on foot attacked a group of U.S. soldiers with the NATO-led International ... apparently killing and wounding an unconfirmed number of them. Separately, military officials reported that two ISAF ...  

Rockets crashed into a U.S. base and a house Friday in a remote area of northeast Afghanistan ... bombs in the area. In the west, three members of the Afghan security forces - two soldiers and an intelligence official - and 11 militants were ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan – It was what President Barack Obama called a “war of necessity,” a conflict thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks. As NATO’s mission here winds down nearly 11 years later, the insurgents remain undefeated ...