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As few as "a couple of thousand" U.S. troops may leave Afghanistan in the first phase of withdrawing forces from there beginning a year from now, Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

General has met sharp resistance from the Afghan president to an American plan to assist villagers in fighting the Taliban on their own.

The general told a Senate panel that a 2011 deadline for the start of troop withdrawals was just “the beginning of a process.”

Leon Panetta cites governance problems, drug trafficking and the Taliban insurgency. Progress is "slower than I think anyone anticipated," he says.

Command has concluded from its own review of events that the magazine inaccurately depicted the attribution ground rules for the interview.

President Obama sacked Gen. Stanley McChrystal as his top commander in Afghanistan and will replace him with Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. ...

Insurgents assaulted Kandahar Air Base, the main military base in southern Afghanistan, on Saturday night, military officials said, in the second attack on a major base in a week.