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Bush seeks 70 billion dollars for Iraq, Afghan war US President George W. Bush on Friday formally asked lawmakers for 70 billion dollars to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into early next year, when his successor takes over.
Afghans to take over Kabul security despite attack: UN envoy Afghanistan`s national army will take over the security of Kabul as scheduled this autumn despite a brazen attack by suspected Taliban militants at the heart of the Afghan capital, the special UN envoy to the insurgency-wracked nation said Monday.
Afghanistan investigates deadly parade attack
German spy agency rapped over Afghan email monitoring Germany`s foreign intelligence service came under fire Thursday after it emerged that the agency illicitly monitored emails between an Afghan minister and a journalist.
Military not meeting combat needs: Gates US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Monday launched a push for more drones, complaining that the military is not moving aggressively to meet battlefield needs.
Taliban hold kidnapped Pakistan envoy to Afghanistan Pakistan`s envoy to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin, who went missing in February, appeared on Saturday in a video aired by Al-Arabiya news channel in which he said that he was held by the Taliban.
Two NATO Dutch soldiers killed in Afghanistan blast: army Two Dutch soldiers serving with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the southern province of Uruzgan on Friday, a Dutch army spokesman told AFP.
PTSD, depression afflict 300,000 Iraq, Afghan war vets: study
Bush, Ban confer about world hot spots US President George W. Bush Tuesday called UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to talk about Afghanistan, Kosovo, Zimbabwe and Darfur, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
Georgia to withdraw peacekeepers from Kosovo: official
US marines say they have begun operations in Afghanistan More than 2,000 US marines recently deployed in Afghanistan to support a NATO-led military campaign against Islamic rebels have began operations in the country's restive south, the unit said Thursday.
Top Taliban militant arrested, 15 killed in Afghan raids Afghan and NATO forces killed 15 Taliban insurgents in separate raids in southern Afghanistan, where police also captured a senior Taliban commander, officials said Sunday.
US-led troops, Afghan forces inflict heavy Taliban losses US-led troops and Afghan security forces on Sunday killed a "significant" number of militants, the coalition said, a day after 15 Taliban were killed in attacks in the south.
French PM announces 'several hundred' extra Afghan troops France could send "several hundred" extra soldiers to join the NATO force in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday, adding that details of the mission had not yet been decided.
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