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• U.S. readying Afghan surge against Taliban
In addition, a separate brigade of new troops is deploying to two provinces surrounding Kabul. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last month that Afghanistan could get up to 30,000 new U.S. troops in 2009, depending on the ...
• Coalition kills 11 militants in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S.-led coalition forces killed 11 militants during an operation just outside the Afghan capital, the coalition said Wednesday. The operation took place Tuesday about 40 miles northeast of Kabul in Surobi district, it said. The ...
• U.S.: 14 children die in Afghan bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber tried to attack a meeting of tribal elders and blew himself up near an Afghan primary school on Sunday, killing 14 children and wounding 58 people, the U.S. military said. The suicide blast went off near the ...
• U.S. coalition: 11 Taliban killed in raid
KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. coalition said Friday its forces killed 11 Taliban militants, including the leader of a bomb-making cell, during an operation in southern Afghanistan. The raid in Kandahar province on Thursday targeted a bomb-maker ...
• Buchanan: Obama's war
Just two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the "splendid little war" that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it seemed. Yet, last month, the war ...