"… kistan — UNITED STATES and British forces that launched their assault on Afghanistan this week can expect tough guerrilla resistance from a hard core of Taliba …"

"… d the Taliban. A third have been killed in the bitter fighting in northern Afghanistan since the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996, but the rest have always remaine …"

"… leaving Sudan in May 1996, he returned to the Jalalabad region in eastern Afghanistan and was introduced to the Taliban in September after it captured Kabul. Re …"

"… an and bin Laden worked together, to ensure that training camps in eastern Afghanistan for Pakistani and Kashmiri militants could be maintained.Bin Laden quickly …"

"… l in combating Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan’s border region with Afghanistan.The House action “seems to suggest that for-profit entities are corrupt …"

"… n the company’s security contracts with the State Department in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Ma …"

"… been paid billions of dollars to protect diplomatic employees in Iraq and Afghanistan and for other agencies’ security missions. The company also became a maj …"

"… ipino prostitute on the company payroll for a State Department contract in Afghanistan, and billed the government for her time working for male Blackwater employ …"

"… hroughout the U.S. military’s Central Command area, which includes Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and other countries.But the agency said this week it was reversing …"

"… crafted to rapidly deliver more survivable vehicles to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. …"

"… ad swath of activities from logistics to providing translators in Iraq and Afghanistan to providing high-level policy and intelligence analysis.In March, Preside …"

"… ouse for intelligence on fraud related to funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.But there’s an acknowledgment as well that more tools are needed. The Ta …"

"… ime Contracting have left state-side comforts behind to travel to Iraq and Afghanistan. They’ll be checking first-hand how contractors and the government perso …"

"… hibault. “There are about 200,000 contract employees working in Iraq and Afghanistan, outnumbering U.S. troops in the area. The unprecedented reliance on contr …"

"… that the U.S. lost track of 190,000 weapons in Iraq and another 87,000 in Afghanistan sparked a flurry of recent stories. Yet this latest report has gone largel …"

"… ush administration to 74 percent in fiscal year 2008. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and growth in the base Pentagon budget led to a doubling of Pentagon contr …"

"… cords of another 135,000 weapons donated by other countries. …"

"… cedures to maintain accountability and control of U.S.-supplied weapons in Afghanistan.According to the GAO, the litany of lapses in Afghanistan includes: U.S. f …"

"… plied weapons in Afghanistan.According to the GAO, the litany of lapses in Afghanistan includes: U.S. failure to track serial numbers on weapons, as well as poor …"