John Diamond

With encouragement from the Pentagon and CIA, some two dozen Pashtun tribes opposing the weakened Taliban regime are conferring about a future government of Afghanistan, a critical step in stabilizing...

As Taliban forces scattered across Afghanistan on Wednesday, U.S. helicopters picked up eight foreign aid workers who had been held by the hard-line Islamic regime for preaching Christianity and flew...

The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan is far from over. It now shifts from a focus on the retreating Taliban to the still-hidden cadres of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, some...

With stunning rapidity, the Afghan war has shifted south, presenting the Pentagon with new challenges and opportunities. Yet as fighting moves to southern Afghanistan, the Taliban gains a home-field advantage,...

The general in charge of U.S. troops in Afghanistan contended Thursday that the military campaign against the Taliban was progressing as planned but cautioned its success could not be measured...

U.S. intelligence has concerns about Osama bin Laden acquiring nuclear weapons or radioactive material that could be turned into a weapon, but they have no concrete evidence he has done...

Statements by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the U.S. is providing logistical assistance and supplies to Afghan opposition leader Hamid Karzai could hurt his chances of rallying anti-Taliban groups in...

With freezing rains thwarting U.S. troop deployment and Afghanistan's notoriously harsh winter looming, Pentagon officials promised to supply rebel troops the gear they need for winter combat with the regime...

Anthrax attacks on Americans represent a second wave of terror, President Bush said Saturday, while on Arab television the man believed responsible for the first wave made a taped appearance...