Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/world/asia/afghanistan world Afghanistan en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:10:23 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/world/asia/afghanistan http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/pl_afp/afghanistanunrestusgermanymilitary afp/20100210/afghanistanunrestusgermanymilitary AFP politics Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:10:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/pl_afp/afghanistanunrestusgermanymilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265760595116-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=aE3cZEYT.A0ZmhQPmwV1Cg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A helicopter flies from the Bundeswehr camp Marmal in Masar i Sahrif, Afghanistan to Kunduz in 2009. US commanders are weighing plans to send more American troops to northern Afghanistan, a region under the command of German forces, a US official said on Tuesday.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Kappeler)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US commanders are weighing plans to send more American troops to northern Afghanistan, a region under the command of German forces, a US official said on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/pl_afp/afghanistanunrestusgermanymilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265760595116-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=aE3cZEYT.A0ZmhQPmwV1Cg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="A helicopter flies from the Bundeswehr camp Marmal in Masar i Sahrif, Afghanistan to Kunduz in 2009. US commanders are weighing plans to send more American troops to northern Afghanistan, a region under the command of German forces, a US official said on Tuesday.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Kappeler)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan ap/20100210/as_afghanistan AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:09:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a604fef7e8be44fab47bd790e25a8e16.afghanistan_xbl110.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=DGG8oDP_jSUxsl6B0TL2qQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A U.S. Army flight medic looks through the window of a Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter, during a mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. The Talon MEDEVAC in Helmand is one of several army aero-medical units positioned around southern Afghanistan by the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, known as Task Force Pegasus. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)" border="0" /></a>AP - U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a604fef7e8be44fab47bd790e25a8e16.afghanistan_xbl110.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=DGG8oDP_jSUxsl6B0TL2qQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A U.S. Army flight medic looks through the window of a Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter, during a mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. The Talon MEDEVAC in Helmand is one of several army aero-medical units positioned around southern Afghanistan by the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, known as Task Force Pegasus. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_avalanche ap/20100209/as_afghan_avalanche AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:33:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_avalanche"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9f869970911e4106b2e8edfad39ec820.aptopix_afghanistan_aqx123.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=KBNgq7AEKJSufMiD0COMOQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Afghans get into an army truck Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010, after being evacuated from the avalanche which struck the Salang Pass, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials said the avalanches have killed at least 28 people and left another 1,500 stranded in a snow-blocked mountain pass, with the Defense Ministry releasing a statement saying another 70 people have been injured as rescue efforts continued to dig out hundreds of vehicles stuck on the pass north of Kabul.(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)" border="0" /></a>AP - A series of avalanches engulfed a mountain pass in Afghanistan, trapping hundreds of people in their buried cars and killing as many as 64 people so far, authorities said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_avalanche"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9f869970911e4106b2e8edfad39ec820.aptopix_afghanistan_aqx123.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=KBNgq7AEKJSufMiD0COMOQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Afghans get into an army truck Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010, after being evacuated from the avalanche which struck the Salang Pass, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials said the avalanches have killed at least 28 people and left another 1,500 stranded in a snow-blocked mountain pass, with the Defense Ministry releasing a statement saying another 70 people have been injured as rescue efforts continued to dig out hundreds of vehicles stuck on the pass north of Kabul.(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_afp/afghanistanunrest afp/20100209/afghanistanunrest AFP topstories Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:22:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_afp/afghanistanunrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265739433519-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=vIh.rrR4PI2HP9EeEhWFkg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A US marine dog handler with 1/3 Marines Alpha company waits with his dog at a company operation base (COB) in Toor Ghar in the Helmand province on February 8. US Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year war.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year war.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_afp/afghanistanunrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265739433519-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=vIh.rrR4PI2HP9EeEhWFkg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A US marine dog handler with 1/3 Marines Alpha company waits with his dog at a company operation base (COB) in Toor Ghar in the Helmand province on February 8. US Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year war.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_asia_afp/afghanistandisasteravalanche afp/20100209/afghanistandisasteravalanche AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:30:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_asia_afp/afghanistandisasteravalanche"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265713258796-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ozu3ZxQtAKWdSgvBKfz6Ng--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Afghan men walk through a snow-covered road in Kabul on February 8. An avalanche triggered by heavy snow has killed up to 30 people and left another 70 injured in the treacherous mountains of northern Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Avalanches triggered by heavy snow killed at least 24 people on a treacherous mountain pass in northern Afghanistan, injured dozens and left up to another 40 people missing, officials said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_asia_afp/afghanistandisasteravalanche"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265713258796-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ozu3ZxQtAKWdSgvBKfz6Ng--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Afghan men walk through a snow-covered road in Kabul on February 8. An avalanche triggered by heavy snow has killed up to 30 people and left another 70 injured in the treacherous mountains of northern Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wl_nm/us_afghanistan_avalanche nm/20100209/us_afghanistan_avalanche Reuters world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:27:52 GMT Reuters - More than 60 people were feared dead and hundreds still trapped on a treacherous mountain pass in Afghanistan on Tuesday after a series of avalanches smashed into an alpine tunnel. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestusnato afp/20100209/afghanistanunrestusnato AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:19:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestusnato"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265721373953-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=pqTrxqj_zk7kLjQsU11sCw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="US soldiers stand guard in Kabul in January 2010. A US and another NATO soldier were killed in attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A US and another NATO soldier were killed in attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestusnato"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265721373953-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=pqTrxqj_zk7kLjQsU11sCw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="US soldiers stand guard in Kabul in January 2010. A US and another NATO soldier were killed in attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_asia_afp/afghanistandisasteravalanchetoll afp/20100209/afghanistandisasteravalanchetoll AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:10:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_asia_afp/afghanistandisasteravalanchetoll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265713258796-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ozu3ZxQtAKWdSgvBKfz6Ng--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Afghan men walk through a snow-covered road in Kabul on February 8. An avalanche triggered by heavy snow has killed up to 30 people and left another 70 injured in the treacherous mountains of northern Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)" border="0" /></a>AFP - An avalanche following heavy snowfalls in northern Afghanistan killed at least 28 people and left another 70 injured, defence ministry officials said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_asia_afp/afghanistandisasteravalanchetoll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265713258796-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ozu3ZxQtAKWdSgvBKfz6Ng--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Afghan men walk through a snow-covered road in Kabul on February 8. An avalanche triggered by heavy snow has killed up to 30 people and left another 70 injured in the treacherous mountains of northern Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunresttaliban afp/20100209/afghanistanunresttaliban AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:46:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunresttaliban"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265712124062-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=rxN1IxhXHT.Dc4DTrJJWxw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Dutch soldiers check for unexploded IEDs (improvised explosive devices) during a patrol in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province in January 2010. The Taliban claimed Tuesday to have developed a new bomb nicknamed Omar after their fugitive leader and which they say is impossible Western mine sweepers to detect.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The Taliban claimed Tuesday to have developed a new bomb nicknamed Omar after their fugitive leader and which they say is impossible Western mine sweepers to detect.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunresttaliban"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265712124062-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=rxN1IxhXHT.Dc4DTrJJWxw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Dutch soldiers check for unexploded IEDs (improvised explosive devices) during a patrol in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province in January 2010. The Taliban claimed Tuesday to have developed a new bomb nicknamed Omar after their fugitive leader and which they say is impossible Western mine sweepers to detect.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/ts_nm/us_afghanistan_assault_warning nm/20100209/us_afghanistan_assault_warning Reuters topstories Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:07:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/ts_nm/us_afghanistan_assault_warning"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r744788139.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5AAGEAA_elSw.n691u_rYQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="An Afghan villager watches U.S. Army soldiers from Task Force Denali Platoon 1-40 CAV as they patrol next to a police station at Manzai village in Khowst province, Afghanistan, December 19, 2009. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Afghan villagers should stay inside and "keep their heads down" when thousands of U.S. Marines launch a massive assault on a densely-populated district in coming days, NATO's civilian representative to Afghanistan said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/ts_nm/us_afghanistan_assault_warning"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r744788139.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5AAGEAA_elSw.n691u_rYQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Afghan villager watches U.S. Army soldiers from Task Force Denali Platoon 1-40 CAV as they patrol next to a police station at Manzai village in Khowst province, Afghanistan, December 19, 2009. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_waiting_for_battle ap/20100209/as_afghan_waiting_for_battle AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:17:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_waiting_for_battle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.ce357ab443214aae8b86c050383416ec.afghanistan_xdg101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=BZKmMIxU3r2WUNnHZN0G8A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines gather at their tents at Belleau Wood outpost outside Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0" /></a>AP - Take a desert of yellow-orange dust so flat it looks like Mars, with a freezing wind that blows so hard it can lift a large tent.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_waiting_for_battle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.ce357ab443214aae8b86c050383416ec.afghanistan_xdg101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=BZKmMIxU3r2WUNnHZN0G8A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines gather at their tents at Belleau Wood outpost outside Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanfrancenepalsportmountaineering afp/20100209/afghanistanfrancenepalsportmountaineering AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:15:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanfrancenepalsportmountaineering"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265695148703-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=IBOAgxTv8bmtPw_BkyG7_w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="When Nadjib Sirat laces up his climbing boots to become the first Afghan to scale the world's highest mountain, he will be driven by passion, not by the politics of his blighted homeland. The 30-year-old believes that by becoming "the world's highest Afghan," he can draw attention to what his country has to offer besides war, poverty, misery and terror.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)" border="0" /></a>AFP - When Nadjib Sirat laces up his climbing boots to become the first Afghan to scale the world's highest mountain, he will be driven by passion, not by the politics of his blighted homeland.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanfrancenepalsportmountaineering"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265695148703-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=IBOAgxTv8bmtPw_BkyG7_w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="When Nadjib Sirat laces up his climbing boots to become the first Afghan to scale the world's highest mountain, he will be driven by passion, not by the politics of his blighted homeland. The 30-year-old believes that by becoming "the world's highest Afghan," he can draw attention to what his country has to offer besides war, poverty, misery and terror.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestusmilitary afp/20100209/afghanistanunrestusmilitary AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:02:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestusmilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265694884062-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=126&q=85&sig=ZAa.ndjuCoe9ootiTCaphw--" align="left" height="126" width="130" alt="US marines carry their equipment during a sandstorm in Toor Ghar in the Helmand province on February 8. A planned assault on a major Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan is the first real test of a new US-led counter-insurgency strategy to re-establish government control and end the war.(AFP/Patrick Baz)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A planned assault on a major Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan is the first real test of a new US-led counter-insurgency strategy to re-establish government control and end the war.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestusmilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265694884062-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=126&q=85&sig=ZAa.ndjuCoe9ootiTCaphw--" align="left" height="126" width="130" alt="photo" title="US marines carry their equipment during a sandstorm in Toor Ghar in the Helmand province on February 8. A planned assault on a major Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan is the first real test of a new US-led counter-insurgency strategy to re-establish government control and end the war.(AFP/Patrick Baz)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_uk_afp/afghanistanunrestnatobritainpoliticsfalklands afp/20100209/afghanistanunrestnatobritainpoliticsfalklands AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:11:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_uk_afp/afghanistanunrestnatobritainpoliticsfalklands"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265681058167-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=75XOuCAZoMGikKXe8GoakQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="British soldiers patrol in Sangin district of Helmand province in December. London vowed to stand firm in Afghanistan after the death toll passed the number killed in the 1982 Falklands war -- amid warnings of a new surge in casualties as a new offensive is launched.(AFP/File/Abdul Malik)" border="0" /></a>AFP - London vowed to stand firm in Afghanistan after the death toll passed the number killed in the 1982 Falklands war -- amid warnings of a new surge in casualties as a new offensive is launched.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_uk_afp/afghanistanunrestnatobritainpoliticsfalklands"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265681058167-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=75XOuCAZoMGikKXe8GoakQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="British soldiers patrol in Sangin district of Helmand province in December. London vowed to stand firm in Afghanistan after the death toll passed the number killed in the 1982 Falklands war -- amid warnings of a new surge in casualties as a new offensive is launched.(AFP/File/Abdul Malik)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_afghan_role ap/20100208/as_afghan_afghan_role AP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:36:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_afghan_role"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100204/capt.248655353d554d8a98169d409466b4f7.afghanistan_xdg103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=zTndYLIb4Db6NKds5iYdPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson meets with Afghan National Army personnel at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0" /></a>AP - Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an upcoming offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_afghan_role"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100204/capt.248655353d554d8a98169d409466b4f7.afghanistan_xdg103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=zTndYLIb4Db6NKds5iYdPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson meets with Afghan National Army personnel at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100208/wl_csm/278885 csm/20100208/278885 The Christian Science Monitor world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:44:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - US and NATO officials sought to sharpen their approach to the Afghan war in the wake of a new strategy to engage the Taliban. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistandisasterweather afp/20100208/afghanistandisasterweather AFP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:00:08 GMT AFP - At least 20 people have died in floods and avalanches triggered by some of the heaviest rain and snow in Afghanistan for 50 years, an official said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_us/us_afghan_us_toll_capsules_january ap/20100208/us_afghan_us_toll_capsules_january AP us Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:54:10 GMT AP - Marine Cpl. Jamie R. Lowe http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanunrestflee afp/20100208/afghanistanunrestflee AFP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:49:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanunrestflee"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265640334888-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=Du2gBWwt5q.18dUlkIYm1Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="An Afghan policeman searches displaced civilians as they arrive in Lashkar Gah. Afghan men, women and children fearing imminent fighting between the Taliban and US troops, loaded up trucks and streamed out of one of the world's main sources of heroin.(AFP/Noor Mohammad)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Afghan men, women and children fearing imminent fighting between the Taliban and US troops, loaded up trucks on Monday and streamed out of one of the world's main sources of heroin.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanunrestflee"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265640334888-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=Du2gBWwt5q.18dUlkIYm1Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Afghan policeman searches displaced civilians as they arrive in Lashkar Gah. Afghan men, women and children fearing imminent fighting between the Taliban and US troops, loaded up trucks and streamed out of one of the world's main sources of heroin.(AFP/Noor Mohammad)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/afghanistan/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100208/wl_csm/278862 csm/20100208/278862 The Christian Science Monitor world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:46:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The soldiers came under Taliban surveillance as soon as they set out. Intercepted radio chatter among insurgents left no doubt that Charlie Company was walking into an ambush as it closed on a Taliban stronghold deep in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province.