Taliban fire into meeting with British occupation soldiers, Afghan woman killed

Taliban fighters fired mortars into a village in an insurgency hotspot in occupied Afghanistan where British soldiers and elders were meeting Thursday and a woman was killed during the attack, the NATO force said.

Report blasts Afghan war as a failure:

Canada and its allies in Afghanistan are waging a losing war against the Taliban that's killed thousands of innocent civilians, harmed the reputation of coalition forces and fuelled support for the insurgency in the past year, says a new report on the conflict by the Senlis Council.

Bush orders more U.S. troops to occupied Afghanistan:

President George W. Bush said on Thursday 3,200 more U.S. troops being deployed to Afghanistan will help NATO occupation forces launch a spring offensive against the Taliban.