Taliban Say No Decision Yet On Karzai Offer Of Talks -- Yahoo News/Reuters
KABUL/LASHKAR GAH (Reuters) – Taliban leaders will decide soon whether to join talks with the Afghan government, a militant spokesman said on Friday, after President Hamid Karzai invited them to a peace council aimed at ending the Afghan war.
In the country's south, suicide attackers launched an assault in the capital of Helmand, Afghanistan's most violent province, with gunmen holed up in three buildings battling government and NATO troops who returned fire with helicopter strikes.
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MOUNTAIN MANEUVER - U.S. Special Forces dismount from a U. S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter while executing a pinnacle landing on a mountain peak to disrupt insurgent communications in Zabul province, Afghanistan, Jan. 21, 2010. The Black Hawk crew is assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Aubree CluteMore News On Afghanistan
Talks Plot Handover to Afghan Forces -- Wall Street Journal
London Conference Supports Reconciliation and Handover Strategy -- Voice of America
War Plan for Karzai: Reach Out to Taliban -- New York Times
Five-year Plan to 'Buy Afghanistan Exit' -- Times Online
Afghan conference gives impetus for Taliban talks -- Yahoo News/AFP
West backs Afghan security pledges, Taliban plan -- AFP
Clinton Announces Support for Karzai's Reintegration Plan -- Voice of America
U.S. Cool to Karzai Pitch for Engaging Taliban -- Los Angeles Times
U.N. Official Met Taliban in January -- Wall Street Journal
Taliban to Decide Soon on Joining Afghan Talks -- New York Times/Reuters
Taliban in no mood for concessions: analysts -- AFP
Taliban's leadership council runs Afghan war from Pakistan -- The Guardian
Gunmen holed-up in building in southern Afghanistan -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Afghan troops battle Taliban militants in south -- Yahoo News/AP
Bomb kills US soldier in Afghanistan -- AFP
Allies rally their forces for spring offensive -- Financial Times
Australia set to plead for life of accused killer in Kabul -- AFP
France risks diplomatic row after snubbing Obama's call to send more troops to Afghanistan -- The Daily Mail
Germany to increase Afghan troop contingent by up to 850, focus on training -- Canadian Press
FACTBOX-Germany's strategy for Afghanistan -- Reuters
The Afghanistan problem -- Ayesha Siddiqa, DAWN
Has the West got the will to carry on shedding blood for Afghanistan? -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
Afghan endgame: From victory to compromise -- Doug Saunders, Globe And Mail
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