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President Obama plans to send another 4,000 troops to Afghanistan along with hundreds of civilian specialists in an effort to confront what he considers "the central challenge facing [that] country," senior administration officials said Thursday.

President Barack Obama says the US must have an "exit strategy" in Afghanistan, despite sending more troops there.

Up to 50 militants attacked a terminal for trucks carrying supplies to U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan early Monday, in the ...

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are challenging the belief that the nation need only prepare to fight two major wars at once.

Attacks on Afghan security forces increased nearly threefold last year as U.S. officials struggled to find enough personnel to ...

Iran said on Monday the United States was failing in Afghanistan and that a new approach was needed, four days after Washington said it would invite Tehran to an international conference to discuss its neighbor.

A car bomb exploded outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan and wounded three people Wednesday. The Taliban claimed ...

U.S. deaths in Afghanistan increased threefold during the first two months of 2009 compared with the same period last year.

Americans by 2-1 approve of President Obama's decision to send 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan despite skepticism ...

Ambitious budget seeks to cut deficit in half in 4 years, largely by raising taxes on businesses, the wealthy, cutting spending in Iraq, Afghanistan.