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Since last month, the U.S. has been impatiently following the glacial negotiations meant to secure the surrender of Taliban fighters around Baghran. Rais, who fought hard for the Taliban, said last week he was willing to surrender to the new U.S.-backed Afghan government. What got the U.S. especially interested...
That Bush will spend the bulk of his State of the Union talking about the domestic picture is a sign of just how successful he has been in the war on terrorism. When he last spoke from the well of the House of Representatives, he scarcely dreamed that four months...
The first faint sliver of the new moon over Afghanistan Saturday will signal the onset of Ramadan, but this year the holy month may be a time both of fasting and fierce fighting. The Taliban negotiated away their last stronghold Friday, Mullah Omar reportedly handing the city over to two...
The volunteers at Kunduz may be more inclined to fight to the death, knowing well that the difference between surrender and defiance may simply be the difference between a heroic death and a humiliating one - even though many of their Afghan Taliban comrades may simply surrender. For the movement's...
And yet the turning of the tide raises new political dangers, most evident in the fact that the U.S. is working very hard to restrain the Alliance from actually capturing Kabul. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday the U.S. could not stop the Alliance seizing the capital because it did...