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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,attended a string of meetings with allied foreign ministers and with representatives of non-NATO countries that have troops in Afghanistan, plus Russia. She sought to sell President Barack Obama's revamped war strategy, which banks on major new allied contributions, not just to escalate the combat effort but also to bolster civilian functions and ...
On May 3, 2007, League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski realized that the plan was working.
President Hamid Karzai tells The Associated Press that setting a 2011 date for U.S. withdrawal will push Afghans to take control of their own destiny.
President Barack Obama is delaying moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
Administration officials testifying before a Senate panel on Thursday offered reassurances about the 2011 date.
The United States government has only spent 2 percent of the more than $1 billion it has pledged to help Mexico fight drug traffickers, according to a government study released Thursday.
Throughout this 900-year-old city, a blizzard of tourism-related projects is underway, even in the midst of the global recession.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is giving different explanations of its July 2011 deadline for the start of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal, assuring foreign officials that it applies only to the 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops that President Barack Obama is sending next year, but suggesting to Congress that it covers all U.S. forces.
Top Democrats and Republicans questioned Thursday whether President Obama is too narrowly focused on problems in Afghanistan at the expense of other national security priorities.
U.S. special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke acknowledged Thursday that the war in Afghanistan is unpopular, given "the legacy of Iraq and Vietnam," but he predicted that NATO allies will soon contribute more forces to join the 30,000 additional U.S. troops being deployed there.
The White House issued a new appeal to Iran on Thursday for information regarding a former FBI agent who disappeared 1,000 days ago while visiting an Iranian resort island in the Gulf.
The United States government has only spent 2 percent of the more than $1 billion it has pledged to help Mexico fight drug traffickers.
The White House and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put pressure Thursday on Iran to divulge information about Robert Levinson, a retired South Florida FBI agent who disappeared from a Persian Gulf island in 2007.
NATO and Russia agreed Thursday to strengthen cooperation, on the eve of the highest-level meeting between them since Moscow sent troops into Georgia last year, diplomats said.
Top US officials renewed their defense of President Barack Obama's strategy in Afghanistan on Thursday as skeptical lawmakers questioned the costly mission and a July 2011 date to start an American withdrawal.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has all but killed the idea of a surtax to pay for President Obama's plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, rejecting a proposal championed by Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wis.
