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KABUL, Afghanistan, July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. troops may face a tough time wresting Afghan provinces from Taliban control as many villagers have accepted the militants' rules, local leaders say.

KABUL (AFP)--U.K. forces said Friday they had successfully carried out one of their "most strategically significant" operations in the Afghan province where U.S. Marines are battling the Taliban further south.

Source: Reuters By Jonathon Burch KABUL, July 3 (Reuters) - Controlling the opium trade in Afghanistan, the world's leading producer of the drug, is a key element in the battle against Taliban militants. With ...

KABUL - When five drug traffickers in military uniforms were caught transporting heroin in a police truck in 2007, it was a victory for a dogged team of Afghan investigators and their US mentors who are waging a Quixotic battle against narcotics, the nation’s largest industry.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S. soldier who inexplicably walked off his barren military base earlier this week was captured by Taliban militants hours later, U.S. military officials said Thursday.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A young American soldier who walked off his remote combat outpost in a volatile region of eastern Afghanistan has been captured and is believed to be in the hands of the Taliban network led by Sirajuddin Haqqani, U.S. military officials said yesterday.

KABUL — A young American soldier who walked off his remote combat outpost in a volatile region of eastern Afghanistan has been captured and is believed to be in the hands of the Taliban network headed by Sirajuddin Haqqani, American military officials said Thursday.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The massive Marine assault launched Thursday in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province is intended to recapture an area that's been below Taliban control for the past five years — a step officials think is critical to showing Afghan civilians that coalition forces can protect them from Islamist militants.

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The capture of the soldier would be a first for militants in the war. The incident in the east of the country comes just as an anti-Taliban offensive involving U.S. Marines has begun in the south. Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey -- The apparent capture of an American soldier by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, believed to be the first such case in nearly eight years of ...