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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 ...
Stern is charged with juggling global politics, domestic legislative battles and the White House climate agenda.
In filling the two new positions created by the Lisbon Treaty, the heads of government of the EU’s 27 member states came up with one very predictable choice — and one major surprise.
An announced exit strategy from Afghanistan was promptly put on hold by Obama's war council Wednesday, disappointing Democrats for whom the July 2011 date was meant as an olive branch from a Democratic president bearing bad news.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. forces will leave Afghanistan gradually based on security in local areas, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told lawmakers as he sought to deflect Republican criticism of a target July 2011 troop-drawdown date.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw cold water on a colleague's proposed war tax to pay for the troop surge in Afghanistan Thursday, saying she opposed it.
Obama aides defend ambitious Afghan scale-up WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. officials said the first of 30,000 new U.S. troops would arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks but also made clear on Wednesday that plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip. One day after...
Senior officials in President Barack Obama's administration have told US legislators that a July 2011 target date to begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan was not set in stone.
A deeply skeptical Congress on Wednesday resigned itself to President Barack Obama's escalation of the Afghanistan war, even as the president's chief military and diplomatic advisers sought to cool any expectations that the war would end in two years.
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.
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.
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.
