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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he is making 50 million pounds ($83 million) in new funding available to Pakistan to help the country pacify its lawless border with Afghanistan.
Nothing about the hard slog in Afghanistan has ever been easy - nor will it be in the future. Here are 10 obstacles facing 30,000 more American G.I.s heading to the war zone.
The civilian operation to rebuild Afghanistan is disjointed and needs to be coordinated better, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke said on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama's plan to send 30,000 new U.S. troops to Afghanistan will only lead to more American casualties, the Taliban vowed.
Pakistani security forces killed 15 militants in separate clashes in northwestern Pakistan, officials said Thursday. A captured commander who led troops to a militant hide-out also was killed in the fighting.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he is making 50 million pounds ($83 million) in new funding available to Pakistan to help the country pacify its lawless border with Afghanistan.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday he did not think al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was hiding in his country.
The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan bears ominous similarities to the disastrous Soviet war there 20 years ago, when a modern army was humbled by small guerrilla bands and the invaders struggled to prop up an unpopular government in Kabul.
Pakistani newspapers expressed alarm Thursday at US President Barack Obama's new Afghan war strategy, concerned that a draw-down date would embolden the Taliban and threaten regional security.
My only son turned 18 a few weeks ago, Mr. President. So Tuesday night, when you said you were sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, I was paying attention in a way I hadn't eight years earlier, when your predecessor got this ball rolling.
Big decisions are risky decisions. President Obama took the right risks at West Point on Tuesday when he outlined his plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan .
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s administration won’t pressure Germany to send more combat troops to Afghanistan, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke told Handelsblatt newspaper in an interview.
President's new strategy falls on skeptical ears in next-door Pakistan, a much larger, nuclear-armed state Obama says is "at the core" of the plan.
Typically I have three objectives for my columns: first, to try to find what I consider “good” news in current events; second, to show the interrelated principles at stake in some local and global events; third, to offer some multiple perspectives on those events and principles. Today I am looking at four current events that offer progressively greater challenges in finding within them some good ...
From now on, the headlines about Afghanistan will be slugged "Obama's War," and perhaps that is fair enough given the president's many endorsements of what he has called a war of necessity. It would be much less fair, however, to ignore the events that led us to this moment, when whatever choice he makes will offer no great guarantee of progress and no small prospect of trouble.
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