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While acknowledging "our people are weary of war," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her NATO counterparts Friday that an infusion of allied troops in Afghanistan is crucial to turning the tide in a war that has been deteriorating for years.
BRUSSELS (AP) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Brussels for talks aimed at rallying more allied support for the Obama administration's plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan.
KABUL - President Hamid Karzai put a brave face Thursday on President Barack Obama's decision to start pulling out troops in mid-2011, telling The Associated Press in his first public response that it will push Afghans to take control of their own destiny.
Top Obama Aides Continue To Face Congressional Scrutiny over Revamped War Strategy
$1.4 Billion Appropriated, but Only $26 Million Spent Due to Bureaucratic Hurdles, GAO Report Finds
Kids these days ... they don't appreciate all the stupidity and meanness that their mothers and grandmothers had to endure.
Brussels - NATO and its allies have pledged to send at least 37,000 extra combat troops to Afghanistan next year, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after talks in Brussels on Friday. Western commanders have called for up to 40,000 ext...
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defend President Obama's war strategy before a skeptical Senate Armed Services Committee.
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai put a brave face Thursday on President Barack Obama's decision to start pulling out troops in mid-2011, telling The Associated Press in his first public response that it will push Afghans to take control of their own destiny.
Only $26 million of the $1.4 billion authorized to help Mexico and Central America fight organized crime has been spent due to bureaucracy, conditions placed on the funds by Congress and preparations in recipient countries, according to a government report scheduled for release Thursday.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is delaying moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. A 1995 U.S. law recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital and ordered that the embassy be relocated there.
Top White House advisers appeared before congressional committees Thursday to answer tough questions about President Obama's Afghanistan strategy. Ray Suarez reports.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the United States will pursue "real concerns" about allegations of corruption in the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
MILL CREEK — Last year, a group of Heatherwood Middle School students clothed and fed 500 Everett residents as part of a service project.
Three Secret Service officers are on administrative leave after the security breach at last week's White House dinner, an episode President Barack Obama said hasn't shaken his confidence in his protectors.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Pakistan on Wednesday to do more to go after militants on their territory but sought to allay Islamabad's concerns over increased U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
