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Germany says its leader is in Afghanistan to on a surprise visit to the nation's troops serving with NATO's force in a war against Taliban insurgents.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, said on Tuesday he was confident British troops could start leaving early next year when a gradual transition to Afghan forces begins.

American troops are dying younger, often fresh out of boot camp, and are frequently victims of homemade bombs known as I.E.D.’s.

It was as if the five years of almost ceaseless firefights and ambushes had been a misunderstanding -- a tragic, bloody misunderstanding. More than 40 U.S. soldiers have been killed, and scores more wounded, in helicopter crashes, machine-gun attacks and grenade blasts in the Korengal Valley, a jagged sliver just six miles deep and a half-mile wide. The Afghan death toll has been far higher, making the Korengal some of the bloodiest ground in all of Afghanistan, according to U.S. and Afghan officials.

President Barack Obama will ask the Congress on Monday for an additional $33 billion in the current 2010 fiscal year to fund a troop increase in Afghanistan, the White House said.

The first wave of President Obama's new Afghanistan surge will add about 16,000 U.S. troops who got their orders over the past ...

NATO said on Friday 25 countries had pledged a total of around 7,000 more troops to support the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, following President Barack Obama's commitment of 30,000 extra U.S. troops.

European and other U.S. allies will contribute more than 5,000 more troops to the international force in Afghanistan, NATO's ...

Officials say new deployments will bring total U.S. force in Afghanistan to more than 100,000.

The U.S. envoy in Afghanistan, a former Army general who once commanded troops in the country, has objected strongly to emerging ...