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The area includes Helmand and Kandahar, the financial and spiritual base of the Taliban, but also the location of most of the increase in American casualties this year.
President Obama's decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan looks at first like a defeat for his vice president, who pushed hard for holding down the number of U.S. troops in the country. But the plan also gives Vice President Biden a lasting victory: a strategy that lays out far more mo...
Capitol Hill politicos will debate the pros and cons while calculating the partisan benefits of their position; Afghans are trying to figure out which option gives them the best chance of staying alive. by Jean MacKenzie, GlobalPost KABUL, Afghanistan — President Barack Obama's announcement on troop strength will be just as eagerly awaited in Kabul as it will be in Washington, D.C., but the ...
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan may face probing questions about whether NATO member Turkey is tilting away from the West and toward Iran when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama next week.
Italy will send around 1,000 additional soldiers to Afghanistan as part of U.S. President Barack Obama's planned troop increase, Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said in an interview published on Thursday.
President Barack Obama ’s decision to add up to 30,000 additional troops to the efforts in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida once and for all was the correct one. But the president only gets half-a-star for his efforts.
The Obama administration is considering widening missile strikes on al-Qaida and the Taliban inside Pakistan, and is planning to bolster the training of Pakistan's forces in a key border battleground where militants fuel the escalating Afghan insurgency, according to U.S. officials.
A top Senate Republican on Thursday questioned whether President Obama's new Afghanistan strategy does enough to address Al Qaeda and Taliban safe havens in Pakistan, saying any plan will be "substantially incomplete" if terrorists are not flushed out across the border.
Even after two days of congressional testimony by top Obama administration officials about the president's plan to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, House Republican leader John A. Boehner said he still has unanswered questions.
KABUL (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring...
The NATO secretary-general announced the increase in troops Friday. The forces will come from 25 NATO countries.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. forces will leave Afghanistan gradually based on security in local areas, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told lawmakers as he sought to deflect Republican criticism of a target July 2011 troop-drawdown date.
Obama's foreign policy takes a narrower view of American power -- we can't fight everyone all at once
(RTTNews) - United States President Barack Obama's call to its NATO allies to support Washington's renewed commitment to fighting terrorism in Afghanistan received encouraging response Friday, as NATO Foreign Ministers agreed to send at least 7,000 extra troops to support the US surge in the war-ravaged South-West Asian country.
NON-U.S. Nations Operating Under The NATO Command In Afghanistan Have Promised To Send 7,000 More Troops To Afghanistan, NATO's Secretary-General Said Friday.
If the US wants fundamental change, it must alleviate Pashtun frustration in Afghanistan and get Pakistan to give up supporting Islamists and the Taliban.
