In Afghanistan, a Do-Over Battle
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The last major battle before winter is one NATO has fought before. That doesn't bode well for a peaceful spring
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Fierce fighting broke out around Afghanistan on Friday, with battles in three separate regions killing more than 100 militants, part of a cycle of rapidly rising violence five years into the U.S.-led effort to defeat the Taliban.
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U.S. and Afghan troops killed or wounded more than two dozen Taliban fighters during a 21-hour battle in eastern Afghanistan that ended Saturday, military officials said.
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To stem the growing Taliban resurgence in remote Afghanistan, US military leaders win over village elders with local development projects.
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The U.S.-led coalition is spending hundreds of millions of dollars constructing roads, bridges and buildings across Afghanistan. For the troops on the ground, it can be a frustrating and delicate job.
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AHMAD KHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan  - Standing on a parched plain flanked by rugged mountains near Kabul, you don't have to look far to see the dangers.
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NATO has assumed responsibility for security across the whole of Afghanistan, taking over from U.S.-led forces that toppled the Taliban regime five years ago.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Three years after the US invasion, Paktia Province and the rest of southeastern Afghanistan illustrate the mixed results of an intervention that ousted the Taliban regime but has yet to capture Osama bin Laden or forge a stable, centralized state to keep out terrorists for good.
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KARABAGH, Afghanistan -- When Mahmad Naib ventured back to his village north of Kabul after U.S. warplanes and Afghan fighters drove out the Taliban militia in November 2001, he found little but scorched earth. The grapevines were dead, the houses looted, the mosque in ruins and the magnificent...
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In-depth look at U.S. struggle to defeat improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2002.
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Taliban militants have taken control of at least one district in southern Afghanistan and were fought back after briefly taking another, Afghan officials said.
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The first joint army exercise between neighbors whose relationship is traditionally tense signals the redrawing of Asia's geopolitical map. Still, many sources of tension remain
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Afghan authorities lost control of a southern Afghanistan district British forces left to tribal elders last year, after Taliban fighters attacked and disarmed police, officials said.
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Six years after the fall of the Taliban, the fighting in Afghanistan is growing more intense &#151; but so is talk of peace.
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The effort is changing into a terror war of its own.
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For a time, the US military in Afghanistan was talking as if it would smoke Osama bin Laden out of a cave on the rocky Pakistan border within months, perhaps even ahead of President Bush&#39;s re-election.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fierce fighting broke out across Afghanistan yesterday with battles in three regions killing more than 100 militants, part of a cycle of rapidly rising violence five years into the US-led effort to defeat the Taliban.