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The article reports that eight soldiers that are part of U.S. military coalition were killed in Afghanistan on May 4, 2013 due to the insider attack, wherein the Taliban claimed responsibility for the said attack.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- More Taliban insurgents are being killed or captured than ever before, yet when the captives are interrogated by the American military, they remain convinced that they are winning the war. That is because the Taliban believe that their own hearts-and-minds campaign is winning over Afghans -- or so they tell their interrogators -- and even converting a growing number of Afghan government officials and soldiers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fellow villagers claimed he was just a poor kid who had taken a police job to help his family get by. Superiors saw him as a reliable foot soldier in the Afghan Border Police who had inexplicably snapped. The Taliban claimed he was a sleeper agent they had planted to kill NATO soldiers. What is known for sure about the police officer, who shot and killed six American soldiers on Monday in one of the worst attacks by an Afghan service member on NATO forces in nine years of war, is that his name was Ezzatullah and that he had been in the border police since 2008. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- It was difficult enough for the people of western Kandahar Province. They are beleaguered both by the Taliban, who control the roads, demand taxes and execute anyone suspected of disloyalty, and by the American military, who often show little regard for people and whose demands that locals stand up to the insurgents seem unreasonable. Still, there was no reason to anticipate something far worse: American soldiers suspected of being a sadistic rogue band led by Sgt. Calvin Gibbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Afghan government is set to unveil an ambitious, far-reaching plan to persuade the Taliban's foot soldiers to abandon their fight and to offer an opening for the movement's leaders to return to politics in the country they once ruled. The new program, which President Hamid Karzai will outline Thursday at a conference in London, seeks to avoid the problems that dogged earlier, more piecemeal approaches. This time it will be a comprehensive plan, operating at the district, provincial and national levels, according to his advisers, who describe it as ''bottom-up and top-down.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]