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Setting a date for the start of a US withdrawal from Afghanistan conveys "a sense of urgency" to Kabul that American forces would not stay indefinitely, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said.
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Gen. David Petraeus said he does not expect progress in Afghanistan to mirror the quick results achieved under the Iraqi surge in 2007.
By executive action, the Obama administration can boost the U.S. target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions beyond levels envisioned in legislation working its way through Congress, the head of the U.N. climate science network said Sunday. "There is scope...
Europeans might have reason to feel disappointed with Barack Obama. The American president arrives this week in Europe to pick up his Nobel Peace prize just as he has nearly doubled the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan. This fall, Obama found plenty of time...
Notre Dame is looking for a football coach. This is the third-most important job in America, behind President and Ryan Seacrest. Due to my many ties to the Notre Dame community, university officials have asked me to help in the search for the next Gerry Fa...
President Barack Obama announced Tuesday night he will send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan almost immediately, and then begin to withdraw them by July 2011.
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-Qaeda leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
The United States will launch a new effort to track down Osama bin Laden who is believed to be hiding in the mountains along the Afghan-Pakistan border, a senior US official said.
As marathon talks open in Copenhagen on climate change, US President Barack Obama is investing heavily in their success but is walking a tightrope as he weathers criticism both at home and abroad.
The Obama administration sent a message that U.S. troops would remain in Afghanistan for a long time, seeking to blunt criticism of Mr. Obama’s war-strategy speech.
As President Obama quietly watches Senators undermine health care reform, redirects over $30 billion annually from domestic programs to expand the Afghanistan war, and...
Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than
Any video emailed to you with the words "oh christ" as the only context with which to view it is worth a look. This did not disappoint. Via Andrew Sullivan, presenting the worst issue-ad I've seen in...
WASHINGTON - National security adviser James Jones says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan.
RICHMOND, Va. — Two Navy SEALs are scheduled to be arraigned Monday in military court on charges that they mistreated an Iraqi suspect in the gory slayings of four U.S. contractors in Fallujah.
The UN believes that the Obama administration can go beyond current climate legislation.
Members of the U.S. government offered apparently conflicting statements Sunday regarding Sept. 11, 2001 mastermind and Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. National Security Adviser and retired general James Jones says the terror mastermind spends his time between the Afghan-Pakistan border, while Defense Secretary Robert Gates insists the United States hasn't had any good intel on ...
WASHINGTON -- Facing the prospect of more American deaths in Afghanistan as the war escalates, lawmakers lashed out at neighboring Pakistan on Thursday as an unreliable ally that could spare the U.S. its bruising fight with al-Qaida if it wanted.
The New York Times and the Washington Post performed an important public service today by publishing separate, detailed accounts of how Barack Obama reached his decision on Afghanistan. Also today, the two top writers for these papers — the Times’ Tom Friedman and the Post’s Bob Woodward — appeared together on Meet the Press to [...]
Viewpoint: There's no shortage of hope in the President's plan to turn Afghanistan around. Or is it wishful thinking?
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