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Finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and rolling back a resurgent Taliban are necessary steps toward winning the war in Afghanistan, the top U.S. commander there told a Senate committee Tuesday.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday toured the nerve centre of NATO command in Afghanistan, telling soldiers that success was in reach, despite the worsening eight-year war with the Taliban.
WASHINGTON - The senior American general in Afghanistan is predicting success for President Barack Obama's revamped war strategy and telling Congress it's the best available approach, even though it differs from what he originally sought.
Two of the biggest goals for U.S. forces in Afghanistan are building up Afghan security forces and convincing Taliban fighters to lay down their arms -- and cash could come into play in achieving both.
The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday there are "no silver bullets" for success there but that he expects to know by this time next year whether the troop build up is reversing the Taliban's momentum.
The United States will reverse Taliban momentum within a year and accomplish its mission in Afghanistan, but it will be "undeniably difficult" and costly, the top U.S. commander there said on Tuesday.
Army Gen. McChrystal tells lawmakers that the U.S. must signal its long-term commitment if the military strategy is to work. Gates addresses questions about troop withdrawals. Afghanistan's security forces will need U.S. support for another 15 to 20 years, President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday in the latest in a series of indications that U.S. involvement there is likely to last far into the future.
The mayor of Kabul, sentenced to four years in prison in a landmark corruption case, has gone back to work and said Wednesday he was innocent, branding his conviction a conspiracy.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that the United States "will never turn our back" on Afghanistan. Gates, who is on an unannounced visit in the war zone, held a joint news conference with Karzai.
The U.S. general in charge of the Afghanistan war assured lawmakers Tuesday that an additional 30,000 troops, combined with changes in the overall war strategy , would trigger a demonstrable change on the ground before U.S. forces start to come home in 18 months.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew into Kabul on Tuesday for talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and commanders about Washington's new strategy to send 30,000 extra troops to fight the Taliban.
President Hamid Karzai told visiting US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday that Afghanistan would need aid to fund its security forces for up to 20 more years, and urged a long-term US commitment.
By LAWRENCE SELLIN UPI Outside View Commentator HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Speaking during a joint news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: "We have a shared interest in promoting prosperity and stability in the Asia Pacific region. We have a common stake in peace and development in Afghanistan and in defeating terrorism ...
Two pilots lost over Afghanistan were the victims of a series of simple errors that combined in a deadly sequence
Taliban militants on Wednesday dynamited two boys' schools in Pakistan's Khyber district, where troops are pressing an offensive against Islamist insurgents, an official said.
The two ranking Americans in Afghanistan put aside their differences and told Congress that they fully supported President Obama’s new policy.
