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Kabul -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the country if the move would have the backing of the United States and other international partners.
If the military gets what it wants and the tide turns in Afghanistan, Obama will get the credit; if it doesn't, at least the Democrats can say they gave the armed forces what they said they needed.
General Dynamics C4 Systems will produce 24 additional Combat Operations Centers for the U.S. Marine Corps under a new $54 million contract modification. The COCs will enable command and control operations for Marines deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq, from division or air-wing headquarters to the regimental level.
Uncle Sam Is Getting Picky.
A woman is saved from her burning home by a off-duty CHP officer. Both are injured. 12/2/09
Senators from both parties confused by President Barack Obama's Afghanistan war plan on Wednesday pressed administration officials to clarify the plan to surge troop levels and then begin withdrawing them in 18 months on the second consecutive day of hearings about the new strategy. "I would say I have pretty average intelligence, and it's still pretty unclear to me what we're doing," said Sen ...
The golfer issues an apology after an Escondido woman released a voicemail message she claims in Woods. 12/2/09
Fire & police unions warn public safety will be affected by cuts. 12/2/09
Michael Chertoff headed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in its early years, from 2005 to 2009. As the third largest cabinet branch, with 218,000 employees, DHS controls immigration, borders, and even protects the president. Chertoff talked recently with NEWSWEEK's Jerry Guo about his tenure and new dangers facing the country. Excerpts:
(RTTNews) - Italian government is planning to send 1000 more troops to Afghanistan to join the international coalition forces fighting Taliban insurgency there, Italian media agencies quoted officials as saying on Thursday.
Germany's defense minister told parliament on Thursday that he has reassessed a German commander's decision to call an NATO airstrike in Afghanistan that killed scores of civilians and Taliban fighters and decided it was "militarily inappropriate."
While most Americans are celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, the family of U.S. Army Sgt. James Michael Nolen, 25, will be making funeral arrangements.
Americans are turning away from the world, showing a tendency toward isolationism in foreign affairs that has risen to the highest level in four decades, a poll out Thursday found. Almost half, 49 percent, told the polling organization that the United States...
The 55th Wing at Offutt Air Force Base has been running since the start of the war in Afghanistan eight years ago, and its members expect no change now that President Barack Obama is ramping up the U.S. military mission there.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon program that embeds social scientists with U.S. combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq is a...
Thirty thousand more troops by the summer. It's a daunting challenge laid out by President Obama, and it's now having the U.S. military scrambling to get it done.
