... Navy Chief Petty Officer Brian Naranjo said. The soldier and three Afghans with him went missing on Tuesday in the eastern Paktika province There was no immediate public claim of responsibility from any insurgent group. Much of the area is controlled by ...

... anti-Taliban push. The multi-pronged attack in eastern Paktika province where an American soldier was captured this week included ... insurgents were killed in the Saturday battle in Zerok district of Paktika province, said Hamidullah Zawak, the provincial governor ...

... Memorial Day more as he prepares to leave Afghanistan and return to Arkansas. Suskie arrived at the base in the country's Paktika province on March 30. Having finished his work, he had a choice to leave either April 3 or April 6. He picked the earlier ...

... Taliban army corps commander for eastern Afghanistan. During the last six months of Taliban rule he was chief of police in Paktika province, an area still considered by the U.S.-led anti-terrorist coalition to be harboring fugitive Taliban and al ...

... to be major figures in the terrorist network. However, one suspect told interrogators that Taliban and al-Qaida fighters were regrouping near the Afghan village of Ziruk in Paktika province, about 20 miles from the Pakistani border.

... Rehmat A. Wahidyar, as saying tribal representatives would be given posts in provincial governments of Khost, Paktia and Paktika. Khost was the target of U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles during an unsuccessful attempt in destroy bin Laden training camps ...

... Afghanistan by three days while serving with the Arkansas Army National Guard. Scheduled to take a flight out of the country's Paktika province on April 6, he opted to leave early on April 3. Eighteen Americans died when the April 6 Chinook flight he would ...