Operations
Defense Policy / Programs
Government Statements and Transcripts
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International Responses
Defense Industry
Other Conflicts
News Reports

Operations

• AFGHAN/FIGHTING VOA 08 Dec. 2001-- With the collapse of Afghanistan's hard-line Taleban militia, attention is now focused on the whereabouts of accused terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and his patron, Taleban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. The last stronghold of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan surrendered on Friday.

Defense Policy / Programs

Government Statements and Transcripts

US Domestic Responses

International Responses

• AFGHANISTAN/BELLAMY VOA 08 Dec. 2001-- The Executive Director of the United Nations children's fund, UNICEF, says more than two decades of war in Afghanistan have created a generation of lost children. Carol Bellamy has just returned from a visit to the Afghan capital, Kabul.
• INDIA/AFGHANISTAN VOA 08 Dec. 2001-- A senior official of Afghanistan's newly-named interim government is visiting India.

Defense Industry

• U.S. Navy Commissions USS BULKELEY (DDG 84) Built By Northrop Grumman Corporation Northrop Grumman 08 Dec 2001 -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz called the USS BULKELEY (DDG 84) ``an indispensable force for peace and freedom in the world'' during commissioning ceremonies today near the World Trade Center site.

Other Conflicts

News Reports

• UZBEKISTAN/POWELL VOA 08 Dec. 2001-- Desperately-needed humanitarian aid will begin flowing into Afghanistan from neighboring Uzbekistan when a key connecting bridge is reopened on Sunday. The reopening was announced by the leader of Uzbekistan after meeting with U-S Secretary of State Colin Powell, now on a trip through Central Asia