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War-funding legislation survives a fierce partisan battle in the House, a major step in providing commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan the money for military operations.

The U.S. military said Friday reports that as many as 147 civilians died in fighting involving American forces and the Taliban were "extremely over-exaggerated" and investigators were still analyzing the data collected at the site.

Taliban insurgents rejected on Wednesday a U.S. offer of "honorable reconciliation" as a "lunatic idea" and said the withdrawal of foreign troops was the only way to end the war in Afghanistan.

President Obama this morning announced a new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy that will require significantly higher levels of U.S. funding for both countries, with U.S. military expenses in Afghanistan alone increasing about 60 percent from the current toll of about $2 billion a month.

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.

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

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

Afghanistan is turning a new page in its relations with the United States, the president's spokesman said on Wednesday, as U.S. President Barack Obama ordered 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan to battle insurgents.

Bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan will be much tougher than in Iraq, the newly appointed U.S. envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan said on Sunday.