The British government has defended its strategy in Afghanistan, a day after eight British soldiers were killed there.
A total of 184 British troops have now been killed in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2002.
British foreign secretary David Miliband has rejected claims that British forces do not have the right equipment and says [...]

British forces in Helmand, southern Afghanistan, are paying a high price as the Taliban fight back with ever more deadly explosive devices. Caroline Wyatt, just back from Helmand, says it is a critical time for the coalition forces.
What should have been a simple seven-hour flight to Kandahar took rather longer.
Two days, in fact, after technical [...]

President Barack Obama says he and the NATO secretary-general on Wednesday discussed increasing alliance effectiveness in the fight against Islamic militants in Afghanistan.
Obama said he hopes the talks and the upcoming new U.S. plan for the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida would “invigorate” NATO participation in the U.S.-led operation, now in its 8th year.
The [...]

A roadside bomb killed four American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday — new evidence of rising violence in a region where clashes and attacks in the first two months of 2009 more than doubled from the same period a year ago.
The spike in violence along the border is an early indication that roadside bombs [...]

President Barack Obama approved adding some 17,000 U.S. troops for the flagging war in Afghanistan, his first significant move to change the course of a conflict that his closest military advisers have warned the United States is not winning.
“This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic [...]

Waste and corruption that marred Iraq’s reconstruction will be repeated in Afghanistan unless the U.S. transforms the unwieldy bureaucracy managing tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure projects, government watchdogs warned Monday.
The U.S. has devoted more than $30 billion to rebuilding Afghanistan.
Yet despite the hard lessons learned in Iraq, where the U.S. has spent nearly [...]