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A F-18 warplane prepares to take off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in the northern Indian Ocean on Oct. 8. The Enterprise is one of the many ships involved in the U.S.-led coalition military attacks against Osama bin Laden and his allies the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan.

U.S., allies attack Taliban in massive bombing raids

June 17, 2018 at 9:49 p.m.

American and British forces launched air and missile assaults against Afghanistan on Sunday, the first in a series of long-anticipated strikes against the terrorists believed to be responsible for last...

Border city takes life in stride as war winds blow

January 30, 2019 at 11:47 a.m.

With American soldiers readying to deploy to Uzbekistan and war threatening to break out just across the river in Afghanistan, Termez should be a tense place. Instead, the dusty Uzbek...

U.S. forces find a likely strike base

January 30, 2019 at 11:48 a.m.

American officers scouting locations to deploy U.S. troops in Uzbekistan are focusing on the former Soviet air base at Khanabad, Uzbek military sources said Tuesday. A U.S. advance team of...

Officials give U.S. airspace clearance

January 30, 2019 at 11:48 a.m.

President Islam Karimov agreed during a meeting of the country's top security officials on Monday to open Uzbekistan's airspace to U.S. military operations. Uzbekistan, he said, wants to "make its...

Old grudges complicate plans to help U.S.

January 30, 2019 at 11:49 a.m.

For Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing a wrenching decision about supporting U.S. military action in Afghanistan, the devil was not in the details. The devil, which is how some in...

Bush maps plan in war on terrorism

June 17, 2018 at 9:32 p.m.

President Bush met with his top security aides Saturday at Camp David to map out a war strategy, and he spoke for nearly an hour with Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Bush maps plan in war on terrorism

August 20, 2021 at 6:37 a.m.

President Bush met with his top security aides Saturday at Camp David to map out a war strategy, and he spoke for nearly an hour with Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Bin Laden link resurfaces as rebels strike

January 30, 2019 at 11:52 a.m.

With Russia already unnerved by last week's terrorism in the United States, separatist fighters in Chechnya attacked the republic's second city Monday as part of their biggest offensive in months....

Vanquished warn of Afghan quagmire

January 30, 2019 at 11:53 a.m.

Talk of possible U.S. military action in Afghanistan has brought back to Russians the pain of the Soviet Union's disastrous war there in the 1980s. It also has produced warnings...

Worry gives way to feeling of helplessness

August 20, 2021 at 6:43 a.m.

For Patrick Gallagher, a Latin American recruiter for Loyola College of Maryland, Tuesday was a day of deep and bitter frustration. Phone lines to the United States from Panama City,...

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