NATO fight with Taliban is winnable war: former commander
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The former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan insisted that the battle with Taliban insurgents was a winnable war if international troops maintained their resolve.
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NATO's plans to send more soldiers to Afghanistan to quell a resurgent Taliban would simply give the rebels more targets, a guerrilla commander said on Thursday.
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Well over 50 insurgent leaders have been killed or captured in Afghanistan in the past year but the rebels' fighting ability has still improved, a top US commander said Sunday.
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The new Afghan army is winning the  support of the population and is capable of tackling a  lingering insurgency by remnants of the ousted Taliban regime,  the U.S. general in charge of its training said Monday.
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NATO remains committed to fighting Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the alliance's secretary-general said Thursday, although he acknowledged that recent fighting has slowed down reconstruction efforts.
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The resurgent Taliban militia poses a tactical problem for the U.S.-led coalition but it cannot take over Afghanistan again, a top U.S. general said.
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Nato in Afghanistan: role model? The Nato summit in the Latvian capital Riga this week will be dominated by the war Nato is waging against the Taleban in Afghanistan and by the concept that Nato should ...Comment
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TANK, Pakistan - A former Taliban fighter who was freed in March from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is leading a group of militants who have kidnapped two Chinese engineers and threatened to kill them.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Taliban fighters are continuing to reinforce a key southern town against an expected NATO offensive more than a week after taking it over, ending a controversial four month truce.
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The chief of the British Army has defended the military operation in Afghanistan after it was reported that soldiers there were being stretched to &quot;the brink of exhaustion&quot; by the Taliban.
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Concern grows over the progress of operations against Taliban and its effects on the unity of Nato
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The new Afghan army is winning the support of the population and is capable of tackling a lingering insurgency by remnants of the ousted Taliban regime, the U.S. general in charge of its training said Monday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- U S and NATO commanders say they have blunted the Taliban's threatened spring offensive, killing almost 40 commanders and 2,000 insurgents. But suicide bombings and civilian deaths inflicted by international forces are all on the rise, threatening to derail the five-year mission to pacify and rebuild Afghanistan.
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Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Tuesday called on foreign forces to withdraw from Afghanistan and taunted NATO about its capture of the southern town of Musa Qala, saying celebrating such a small victory only showed its weakness.
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The West must win the war against Islamic militants in Afghanistan or face attacks in their own countries, NATO Secretary-General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday.
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KABUL: A Taliban commander killed in southern Afghanistan last week had rejoined the hardline militia after his release from Guantanamo Bay earlier this year, according to an Afghan provincial governor.
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A veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan told a Tambov meeting on Nov. 26 that Russian losses in Chechnya had exceeded the country's losses in Afghanistan.