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Los Angeles Times - 2 hours 6 minutes ago
Officials say Helmand and Kandahar, where the Taliban's roots are deepest, will see an influx of U.S. troops. Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Nawa, Afghanistan -- When President Obama outlines his new strategy for Afghanistan tonight, a pivotal element will focus on the country's south, where an influx of troops will try to secure the Taliban's spiritual center and seize a major center ...
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Time.com via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 10:05 am ET
A surge of American reinforcements into Afghanistan will be a sideshow to the effort to put insurgents onto the U.S. payroll
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USA Today - 54 minutes ago
President Obama details a new strategy in Afghanistan tonight. Obama's remarks, in front of a U.S. Military Academy audience, comes after 10 meetings with his national security advisers and others since mid-September about the 8-year-old war. USA TODAY's Andrew M. Seaman and Catalina Camia look at what Obama has said about Afghanistan since he was a candidate seeking the Democratic presidential ...
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AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 22 minutes ago
After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders have already been made: at least one group of Marines who will be in place by Christmas.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 9:38 am ET
A year ago, mobile phones worked just fine in the pomegranate orchards and vineyards along the Arghandab river on the outskirts of Afghanistan's second largest city, Kandahar.
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Washington Post - Tue Dec 1, 12:00 am ET
President Obama will outline Tuesday his intention to send an additional 34,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials and diplomatic sources briefed Monday as Obama began informing allies of his plan.
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CNN - Mon Nov 30, 11:32 pm ET
President Obama is expected to announce Tuesday that he's sending more than 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and discuss the U.S. strategy there.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 29, 7:59 am ET
About 30 Taliban insurgents were killed in a NATO-led air strike in eastern Afghanistan after they attacked an Afghan police post, a police official and the alliance said on Sunday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 1 minutes ago
New infusions of U.S. Marines will begin moving into Afghanistan almost as soon as President Barack Obama announces a redrawn battle strategy, a plan widely expected to include more than 30,000 additional U.S. forces.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 7:50 pm ET
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pledged Monday to send more police trainers and civilian aid experts to Afghanistan, saying his country was in it "for the long haul."
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Ventura County Star - Mon Nov 30, 9:41 pm ET
President Barack Obama will announce his policy decision on Afghanistan to a deeply divided nation tonight in an address from West Point. It is largely anticipated that his recommendation will be to send tens of thousands of American soldiers, while encouraging NATO allies to send an additional 10,000 troops.The annual cost per U.S. soldier of $1 million is in stark contrast to the Taliban ’s ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 33 minutes ago
US President Barack Obama and Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on Tuesday discussed the details of Washington's new military strategy for the war-torn country, Karzai's office said.
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Pioneer Press - Tue Dec 1, 1:04 am ET
KABUL — When President Barack Obama outlines his new strategy for Afghanistan in a speech tonight, a pivotal element will focus on the country's south, where an influx of troops will try to secure the Taliban's spiritual center and seize a major center for bomb making and drug trafficking.
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Los Angeles Times - 2 hours 6 minutes ago
In his address Tuesday, the president is expected to emphasize that there are limits to the length of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan. President Obama plans to send 30,000 to 35,000 additional soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Monday, the largest single U.S. deployment since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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CNN - Mon Nov 30, 7:42 pm ET
U.S. President Barack Obama has waited too long to address the instability in Afghanistan, putting at risk the efforts to stabilize the troubled country, a pair of authors said Monday.
