Topic: Afghanistan

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Iraq offensive: Clear out militants – and stay.

US, Iraqi operation in Diyala Province draws on a new counterinsurgency model.
01/14/2008 12:00 am
USA

01/14/2008 12:00 am
Pakistan: push for polls despite suicide bombing

An attack in Lahore, the first since Bhutto's assassination, raises fresh worries about security for Feb. 18 elections.
01/11/2008 12:00 am
Palestinians little moved by Bush visit

In the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, residents say that Israeli interests will trump theirs despite Bush's vow of a peace deal this year.
01/11/2008 12:00 am
USA

01/11/2008 12:00 am
Sparks fly in Padilla sentencing hearing

Five months after terror-conspiracy convictions, prosecutors and the defense still battle over the evidence.
01/11/2008 12:00 am
Nonprofit slips in race for cheap laptop for world's poor kids

Problems at One Laptop Per Child show how social entrepreneurs can blaze trails but miss the payoff.
01/11/2008 12:00 am
On Mideast trip, Bush hopes to propel historic Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking

In Jerusalem Wednesday, the president called for two democracies, Israel and Palestine, to live side by side.
01/10/2008 12:00 am
Terrorism & Security Britain convicts Pakistani man for plotting attacks

Sohail Qureshi was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in jail Tuesday, in the first conviction under a 2006 law that makes it an offense to prepare for a terrorist act.
01/09/2008 12:00 am
Four New Hampshire independents, four reasons they voted Democratic

A majority of independent voters in Tuesday's presidential primary chose one of the Democratic candidates. Those who voted on the GOP side helped boost McCain to victory.
01/09/2008 12:00 am
Private security contractors look to Africa for recruits

Namibia kicked out two top officials of an international private security firm this fall amid claims the firm was recruiting fighters to work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
01/08/2008 12:00 am
Reporters on the Job

01/08/2008 12:00 am
Short Stuff

Short, newsy items for kids – from 18-million-year-old armadillos to squirrels that smell like rattlesnakes.
01/03/2008 12:00 am
World

01/02/2008 12:00 am
Monitor Breakfast The economic outlook of the White House budget director

Jim Nussle strikes a note of caution on government finances as the economy potentially slows down.
11/15/2007 12:00 am
Monitor Breakfast Levin: Time-limited funding best hope to change US war policy

Bush's $46 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan offers an opening, says the head of the Senate Armed Services committee.
10/25/2007 01:00 am