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Killing or capturing Osama bin Laden is the key to defeating the Al-Qaeda terror network, the NATO commander in Afghanistan told US legislators in testimony on Capitol Hill.
Attending the graduation of doctors, engineers and professors in Mogadishu last Thursday, I was relieved to cover a positive Somalia story for a change.
The prepared statement of Karl W. Eikenberry, the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, for his testimony before the House Armed Services Committee.
The FBI on Tuesday called on former Director William H. Webster to conduct an independent audit of the agency's actions before last month's Fort Hood, Texas, massacre, a sign that the bureau remains concerned it may have missed signs that could have helped prevent the shooting rampage that left 13 dead. Mr. Webster, a former federal judge who served as head of the FBI from 1978 to 1987 and ...
The Obama administration warned that if Pakistan does not act aggressively, the U.S. will use more force on the Pakistani side of the border, officials said.
Despite previous misgivings, the U.S. ambassador to Kabul assured Congress Tuesday that he supports the new war strategy for Afghanistan and is united on the effort with military commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
The United States has warned Pakistan that its forces will chase Taliban forces into Pakistan if the Islamabad government does not get tough with the insurgents, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors said Thursday they may file new charges in the case against Najibullah Zazi, the former Flushing man accused of planning an al-Qaida terror attack on New York City, and that the case may go to trial as early as fall 2010.
A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles into an al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary in a Pakistani region the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing at least three militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
Officials Confirm at Least 127 Killed in Coordinated String of Explosions Targeting Government Offices
At hearings on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said the US would be able to disable the Taliban to the point where they would no longer threaten the government of Afghanistan.
In the week since President Obama's carefully worded speech to the nation on Afghanistan , it has become increasingly difficult to nail down the true meaning of the drawdown of troops that the President announced would begin in July 2011.
Greek Debt Cut; U.S. Warned
Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
War On Terror: The anti-war crowd says the small number of enemy fighters inside Afghanistan doesn't justify sending 30,000 fresh troops there....
Five powerful car bombs rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 112 people, including women and students, and wounding 207 in the third co-ordinated massacre to devastate the capital since August.
Al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorists don't need Afghanistan to carry out operations. These can be mounted from anywhere or anyplace, from Yemen to Somalia, to Hamburg or to ... Detroit.
To the Editor:.
Naples —Leslie Gelb is an expert on U.S. foreign policy and national security.But the Pulitzer Prize winning former corresponded for the New York Times and senior state official in the State and Defense Departments wasn’t interested in doing much of the talking on Tuesday morning at Seacrest Country Day School.Instead, he wanted to know what Seacrest high school students were interested in.“I ...
Militants armed with rocket-propelled and hand grenades and a car bomb attacked an office of Pakistan's main security agency in the city of Multan on Tuesday killing nine people, officials said.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told Congress Tuesday that he's confident he now has both the strategy and resources he needs in Afghanistan. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, initially wary of a troop increase coming before a crackdown on corruption, said he's satisfied that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has expressed the right intentions.
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