U.S. says other countries might try some suspects
The Bush administration offered a new formulation Thursday for the handling of captured Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders, saying they could be prosecuted in Afghanistan or in their countries of...
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Afghan factions agree on new government
Racked by more than two decades of war, Afghanistan took an important step early Wednesday toward stability as four rival factions agreed on the details of a new interim government....
U.S., allied forces squeeze Taliban holdouts
In an escalating bid to strangle the Taliban in its last bastion in Afghanistan, U.S. Marines moved Tuesday to seal off escape routes from the besieged southern city of Kandahar...
Night test of missile system succeeds
The Pentagon conducted a successful nighttime test of a missile defense system Monday as an interceptor rocket wiped out a mock warhead for the third time this year. The interceptor,...
Anti-Taliban forces near Kandahar
Opposition forces advanced toward the outskirts of Kandahar, the Taliban regime's last foothold in Afghanistan, with the help of a flurry of U.S. air strikes on Taliban troop concentrations around...
More Marines deploy in south
The U.S. deployed a quick-reaction force in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday to quell any renewed Taliban resistance as more Marines poured into the southern part of the country, where the...
CIA reveals agent died in prison riot
The CIA confirmed Wednesday that one of its operatives in Afghanistan was killed in a prison uprising near Mazar-e Sharif, becoming the first known U.S. combat fatality of the war...
U.S. narrows search for bin Laden, aides
The U.S. military has narrowed its search for Osama bin Laden and top Taliban leaders to two Afghan regions near the Pakistani border, American officials said Tuesday as U.S. warplanes...
Pinned Taliban inmates repel attack
The bloody prison uprising in northern Afghanistan that claimed the lives of hundreds and triggered U.S. air strikes raged on Monday as armed Taliban prisoners engaged in a fierce gun...
Marines land in Afghanistan
More than 1,000 U.S. Marines flew by helicopter into southern Afghanistan on Sunday, a U.S. official said, marking the first deployment of regular ground troops in the 7-week war against...