KANDAHAR: Suspected Taliban militants attacked a prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar late on Friday and freed a number of prisoners, intelligence and police officials said.
CALGARY - Canada's top soldier is downplaying the prison break in Kandahar that has freed hundreds of Taliban fighters. Gen. Rick Hillier acknowledges the violent attack Friday is a setback but says it won't afect Canada's mission in Afghanistan.
CALGARY - The violent prison break in Kandahar that freed hundreds of Taliban fighters does not represent a massive breakdown in NATO's intelligence gathering network, Canada's top soldier said Saturday. Gen.
PARIS (AP) - He came to power billed as the world's best hope for a renaissance in Afghanistan after years of war and radical Islamic rule. Now, patience abroad with President Hamid Karzai is wearing thin, experts say.
(AP) - Canada's top soldier says the violent prison break in Kandahar that freed hundreds of Taliban fighters does not represent a massive breakdown in NATO's intelligence gathering network.
at least 447 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.
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