The post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and its allies "will remain a permanent stigma on the face of western democracy", the Taliban said on Saturday.

Success is possible in the war in Afghanistan even if Pakistan fails to fully cooperate in countering militants along its border, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday.

With Pakistan taking some

President Barack Obama made his final decision on Tuesday on the scale and pace of a US troop drawdown in Afghanistan and will announce his plan in a prime-time speech to Americans on Wednesday.

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Defence secretary Robert Gates, wrapping up a final visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, said on Tuesday that US-led forces are on the verge of securing a “decisive blow” against the Taliban.

WikiLeaks will publish the last batch of secret documents on the Afghan war in "a couple of weeks", the whistleblower website's founder, Mr Julian Assange, said on Saturday.

Asked at a press confere

Slamming WikiLeaks' announcement that it is going ahead with its plan to post additional 15,000 classified documents on Afghan war on its website, the Pentagon termed it as the height of irresponsibil

The war against terrorism in Afghanistan is an ongoing struggle and at this point of time cannot be defined in terms of winning or losing, an Obama administration official has said.

The US on Wednesday dismissed Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s view that US-backed coalition forces are losing the war in Afghanistan, saying actions taken in the last several months were keeping in mind the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.