US military says it refrained from attack on Taliban at funeral
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The US military had a formation of about 100 suspected Taliban fighters in its sights in July but decided not to attack because they were in a cemetery and likely burying their dead, a military official said.
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A rocket attack aimed at Kabul&#39;s international airport showed the Taliban have the ability to target anywhere in Afghanistan, the group said on Friday, warning that the country would become &quot;a burial ground&quot; for Americans.
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DERA BUGTI, Pakistan -- Doubt swirled around yesterday's funeral for a tribal chief killed in a Pakistani military raid after officials rejected demands to open his padlocked coffin for inspection and buried it in a different location than where his family wanted.
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PENTAGON Military officials won&#39;t comment specifically on the latest allegations from Human Rights Watch about prisoner deaths in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US and Afghan troops killed a Taliban commander and detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters during a major search operation after a gunbattle in a southern Afghan mountain range, officials said Saturday.
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The U.S. military confirmed on Wednesday that a transport helicopter had come down near Baghdad but declined to comment on any casualties.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The US military said yesterday it was investigating the deaths of two Afghan civilians in US custody in 2003, following a newspaper's report that Army Green Berets tortured some prisoners.
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Western forces in Afghanistan have the Taliban on the defensive after a series of spring battles that have also been blamed for a rising civilian death toll, a senior U.S. military officer said on Wednesday.
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The White House said on Friday it   was not U.S. policy to threaten Pakistan and former U.S.   diplomat Richard Armitage denied warning Pakistan's president   the United States would bomb his country after September 11.
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The US government is warning its citizens in Afghanistan to &quot;keep a low profile&quot; after a car bombing Sunday at the offices of a US private security contractor in Kabul killed 11 people, including three Americans.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. government warned its citizens to keep a low profile Monday after a car bomb hit a private American security firm in the Afghan capital, killing at least seven people, including two Americans...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Suspected Taliban rebels killed two tribal elders who were encouraging participation in elections and shot to death an Afghan military commander in an ambush, officials said Saturday    Meanwhile, the U.S. military apologized for the latest civilian casualty of its operations to protect landmark October elections...
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TANI, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck Monday at a funeral for a provincial governor assassinated by the Taliban a day earlier, and four senior members of the government at the service escaped unhurt, officials and witnesses said. Five people were killed and at least 30 wounded.
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The United States wants Afghanistan  to coax lower-level Taliban members away from the organization  to help end an insurgency after the group failed to disrupt  last Saturday's historic presidential election.
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KABUL, Dec 11: The US-led military in Afghanistan has kicked off a new operation to hunt Taliban militants in their winter stronghold and force them to accept an Afghan government reconciliation offer, a US military spokesman said on Saturday.
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The Taliban has said that it is aiming to disrupt the inaugaration ceremony of Afghanistan&#39;s new president, Hamid Karzai, which will be attended by Dick Cheney, the American vice-president, Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary.
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The U.S. military said Wednesday it is looking into the unauthorized release of a photo purportedly taken by an American drone aircraft showing scores of Taliban militants at a funeral in Afghanistan.