War afghanistan News

US President Barack Obama, in his weekly address to the White House, laid out his strategy on how America will be ending its war with Afghanistan and rebuilding the nation.

Kabul - Interviews with some key Taliban members close to Mullah Omar show the Taliban are apparently open to a deal with the U.S. on ending the Afghan war.

Kandahar - Another seven American soldiers lost their lives in Afghanistan Thursday, along with their Afghan interpreter and three Afghan soldiers.

Servicemen and women who serve their country during wartime should have recognition and rewards, but how about a gift of a piece of land in one of the 50 states, as one organization is doing, for less than $20.

A recent telephone survey suggests that 66 per cent of Canadians believe the military build-up in Afghanistan will not defeat the Taliban, while only 34 per cent think the war in Afghanistan can be won.

United States President Barack Obama said on Thursday in Oslo, Norway, accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, that there will be no "precipitous drawdown of American forces" in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday that his country will not be able to pay for their own army until 2024, which pegs the question: How much is the world willing to spend?

United States President Barack Obama's surge strategy in Afghanistan has now made military officials expectant of an increase in deaths by next year.

United States President Barack Obama announced that US troops in Afghanistan would begin to withdraw in July 2011 but now that may be pushed back, at least according to some senior US officials.

Former 2004 and 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate, Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich, gave a speech highlighting his concerns over the increase in American presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the possible domestic blowback that is occurring.