...and LeT to plan attacks on Indian establishments in and around Kabul. Highly places sources said the first such meeting, in which some LeT members were also present and in which plans to target Indians in...

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Kandahar was the spiritual homeland of the Taliban when the strict Islamists ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, and the U.S. and NATO commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, considers it the main geographical...

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The demoralizing October attack prompted the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan to send hundreds of workers to safety in Dubai and to impose new security restrictions on those who stayed behind.

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...incidents in Afghanistan, officials said Friday. NATO confirmed that the American died Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, but provided no other details. Also Thursday, an Afghan army vehicle hit a roadside...

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...logistical and opium-smuggling network about 380 miles southwest of Kabul. But the precise attack date has been kept secret. Two soldiers from the Royal Scots Borderers were killed Sunday in an explosion...

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...last month, on the day Mr Karzai swore in his new cabinet. His other coup was to prime a double-agent to kill seven CIA agents at a US base last month. Last year, Haqqani set up flying checkpoints on this...

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...of Kabul, power base of the feeble central government led by Karzai. Al-Qaida leaders have regrouped near the Pakistan-Afghan border. The United States and its NATO allies are sending 37,000 more troops in a...

Read more: Karzai Sets Plans To Woo Taliban, Fight Corruption

...of Kabul, power base of the feeble central government led by Karzai. Al-Qaida leaders have regrouped near the Pakistan-Afghan border. </p><p>America and its NATO allies are sending 37,000 more troops in a bid...

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...this week that the Taliban would seek to step up suicide bombings and other attacks to undermine support for the US surge strategy. He said the insurgents wanted to make Afghanistan look as if it were "on...

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KABUL (AP) -- Taliban militants struck in the heart of the Afghan capital Monday, launching suicide attacks on key government targets in a clear sign the insurgents plan to escalate their fight as the U.S. and its...

Read more: Taliban militants attack Kabul; 5 killed

...public support, the U.S. special envoy to the region said Saturday. Richard Holbrooke, making his sixth trip to Afghanistan in the past year, said the ruthlessness of militants like Hakimullah Mehsud, the...

Read more: US envoy: Brutal attacks erode militants' support

...will cost the militants public support in northwest Pakistan. </p><p>Richard Holbrooke told reporters Saturday in Kabul that the ruthlessness of militants like Hakimullah Mehsud is beginning to "backfire" on...

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...the southern outskirts of Kabul. Friday, August 9: A powerful car bomb exploded at a construction company's warehouse in Jalalabad, killing 25 people and injuring 80 others. Sunday, August 18: Two U.S. Special...

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...Kingdom Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has worked for the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin and Taliban members in the past, and could be acting for either organization. ''Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin has staged small...

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...Kabul, allowing about two... KABUL - Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president, on Wednesday denied reports that he has received regular payments from the CIA for... KABUL - Terrified U.N. workers...

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Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack, which underscored the deteriorating security situation in Kabul at a time of increasingly public disputes within the US administration over strategy in...

Read more: Suicide car bomb hits Nato base in Kabul

...next week. Afghan police said a white Toyota Corolla exploded close to America's Camp Phoenix, on one of the most heavily bombed roads in the city, about 7:45 am (0315 GMT). Military sources told...

Read more: US convoy attacked in Kabul suicide bomb

A suicide bombing attack wounded six people Friday near Camp Phoenix, a logistics support base for U.S. forces just outside Kabul, an Afghan police official said. NATO said the suicide bombing occurred at 8 a.m.

Read more: Suicide bomber attacks US vehicles outside Kabul