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Afghanistan's only known pig trotted out of quarantine on Saturday, two months after he was locked away because of swine flu fears, to bask again in the mud at the Kabul Zoo.

They're known as America's Battalion. Now they are the face of America's military in Afghanistan.

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

A terrorist who allegedly recruited Afghan children to serve as suicide bombers has been taken into custody, US officials said Sunday.

Some of the soldiers with the 48th Infantry Brigade "Bravo Company" Second Battalion have completed their first "mission" in Afghanistan -- and it was successful and uneventful.

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.

The number of Afghans seeking asylum in Europe doubled last year to nearly 18,000 -- the highest increase for any major country, sources said.

It's the same area where an American soldier disappeared on Tuesday. By M. Karim Faiez and Laura King 10:00 AM PDT, July 4, 2009 Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey -- Insurgents armed with rockets, mortars and a truck bomb staged an unusual frontal attack on a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan today, killing two American ...

A U. S. Marine takes up a fighting position after arriving by helicopter yesterday in Main Poshteh, Afghanistan, for the start of Operation Khanjar.

A truck bombing outside a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan has triggered a two-hour gunbattle that was ended with airstrikes.

Tired of outside interference and corrupt politicians, Afghans want a credible plan for their country's future The Afghan election campaign officially opened last week and the people of Kabul woke up to a city covered in images of presidential hopefuls.

At a former Soviet training base in the town of Rish Khvor, a few miles out of Kabul, American Green Berets are working to mentor and support Afghan Special Force soldiers code-named Commandos.

Taliban militants killed at least 26 people in a daring suicide attack on three Afghan government buildings in Kabul Wednesday, as U.S. President Barack Obama and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari agreed to embark on a policy of "active engagement" to turn the tide in the war on extremism in South Asia.

A U.S. soldier discovered missing Thursday from a small outpost in eastern Afghanistan is believed to have been captured by Taliban militants when he walked away from his base, military officials said.

Published: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 10:26 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 10:26 p.m. KABUL, Afghanistan The apparent capture of an American soldier by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, thought to be the first such case in nearly eight years of warfare, presents U.S. military officials with potentially agonizing choices just as a ...

Today is Friday, July 10, the 191st day of 2009. There are 174 days left in the year.

The U.S. government has been plunging deeper and deeper into debt, and the White House expects the budget deficit to get close to $2 trillion by the end of the year.

JALALABAD: At least three people were killed and about 18 others reported missing when a raft sank on Wednesday in a river in eastern Afghanistan, an official said.

American marines in Afghanistan have launched President Barack Obama's long-awaited surge against Taliban militants in Helmand province the largest deployment of US troops since the Iraq war.

Afghan warlords are making a comeback from accusations of abuse to emerge kingmakers of August elections as voters lose hope their war-scarred nation can embrace democracy, critics say.