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WASHINGTON, May 16, 2008 – Afghan and coalition security forces detained eight suspected Taliban militants during a joint operation conducted in Paktia province yesterday, U.S. military officials said. Afghan and coalition forces searched several compounds in the province’s Zadran district while looking for a Taliban operative with links to local roadside bomb attacks and the movement of insurgent fighters. Some explosives components discovered during the search were removed for disposal. In other news, one militant was killed and 13 others were detained during a coalition operation in Helmand province May 14. During a search of several compounds in the Garmser...

A Tucson car dealer is reaching out to help military men and women deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. This morning Hailey Peck picked up her car at Jim Click Nissan. She's glad to be back on the road again. Last month her car quit running outside her church. Peck says she had to leave it parked there for months. She says, "We didn't really have the money to repair the car yet. We just needed a few extra paychecks." This mother of two says money's been tight since her husband got deployed to Afghanistan 22 months ago. Enter Click Nissan....

<p>A U.S. CH-47 Chinook (search) military transport helicopter crashed in Afghanistan Tuesday, FOX News has learned.</p> <p>The chopper went down west of Asadabad (search), the capital of Konar (search) province, while bringing reinforcements into an area where U.S. forces have been fighting Taliban rebels.</p>

Snow paralyses Afghan villages By Andrew North BBC News, Kabul Many areas are cut off There is concern in Afghanistan about the condition of thousands of people living in remote villages cut off by weeks of heavy snow. Officials say the severe winter has killed more than 260 people. Aid agencies say that the number of Afghans, particularly children, killed could be much higher. There have been reports of several hundred dying, although it is still impossible to confirm these figures because many areas are inaccessible. The US military has been helping ferry supplies by helicopter to some of...

If we had William Butler Yeats to plonk in front of CNN today, what would he write? Second Coming was his response to a Russian Revolution he knew only intellectually. The reality of its terror was unavailable for viewing even when he died in 1939. What might he have created after actually seeing bodies swinging from the bridge in Fallujah, their mutilations politely blurred by technology so as not to offend. Or hostages threatened with death by fire, paraded in front of cameras, knives at their throats. Would "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" and the "blood-dimmed tide" have...

WASHINGTON — As we Americans turn the last page of our calendars, many of us are moved to review the achievements of the year gone by and to make resolutions for the year ahead. This can be a frustrating business if one dwells on subjects like exercise and dieting, but the twin task of stock-taking and resolution-making is a worthy discipline — and not just for individuals. We in the Bush administration have also taken stock and made resolutions. We do so with confidence because President Bush's vision is clear and right: America's formidable power must continue to be deployed...