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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed the pledges by NATO members and other allies to send 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan to battle Taliban and al Qaeda extremists and train Afghan forces.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday voiced cautious hope that France would come up with more troops in Afghanistan as part of the new US-led strategy.
NATO allies will bolster the American troop surge in Afghanistan by sending at least 7,000 soldiers of their own, officials said Friday in pledges that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described as crucial to turning the tide in the stalemated war.
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Some two dozen countries will send an estimated 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year, an infusion of forces that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday is crucial to turning the tide in the long war.
She's got a host of international crises on her plate, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked Friday for the first time about her latest gig: mother of the bride.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rejected suggestions Friday that the Obama administration plans to abruptly cut and run from Afghanistan.
Some two dozen countries will send an estimated 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year, the chief of NATO said Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her allied counterparts that an infusion of forces is crucial to turning the tide in the long war.
BRUSSELS -- NATO leaders said Friday that 25 countries have pledged to back up the U.S. escalation in Afghanistan with 7,000 extra troops, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed American allies to firm up their commitments.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged NATO and its partners in Afghanistan to rally behind a new strategy to combat the insurgency and "finish it together".
Twenty-five NATO allies promised on Friday to send about 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan, backing U.S. President Barack Obama's new war strategy and reinforcing efforts to defeat the Taliban.
The Obama administration is looking to press in early January for a new round of United Nations sanctions against Iran for its continued defiance of demands to come clean about its nuclear program, U.S. officials said Friday.
NATO's top official said Friday that at least 25 countries will send a total of about 7,000 additional forces to Afghanistan next year "with more to come," as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to bolster allied resolve.
More than two dozen NATO countries will send about 7,000 troops to Afghanistan next year, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the alliance's secretary general said Friday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the infusion is pivotal to winning in Afghanistan.
When President Barack Obama announced his appointment of Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell to be his special envoys to two of the world’s most challenging trouble spots at a formal ceremony with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last January, it almost seemed the new Obama administration was getting three secretaries of state for the price of one.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined a NATO foreign ministers meeting Friday to sell the new U.S. war plan for Afghanistan to wary allies, and the top NATO official predicted a "new momentum" in the war effort in 2010.
