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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.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- “Las Vegas in Hanoi.” That sign greeted 800 people at a Vietnam investment forum this week, and it was a head-turner.
For a little more than a half hour at the Military Academy at West Point Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama put his stamp on the war in Afghanistan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's government expressed confusion and concern yesterday about President Barack Obama's new Afghan strategy, which calls for Pakistan to step up its cooperation
Senators of both parties expressed skepticism about President Obama’s plans for sending an additional 30,000 troops with a timeline for pulling them out.
KABUL - President Barack Obama is holding an uncertain hand in his high-stakes gamble in the fight against Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Members of the congressional delegation whose districts include Berks County comment on President Barack Obama's decision to increase military forces in Afghanistan.
Federal lawmakers offered varying opinions about President Barack Obama's speech at West Point Tuesday calling for 30,000 additional troops to be deployed to Afghanistan. "I have mixed emotions," said U.S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Howard. "Frankly, keeping our sons and daughters out of harm's way is vital and we need to honor what the commanders on the ground recommend," he said.
President Obama's decision on how to proceed in Afghanistan is one of the most important he's likely to face in office. Unfortunately it appears that he will risk the success of his administration's new strategy for Afghanistan by providing less troop reinforcements than his military commanders have recommended.
This is not a strategy for victory. It is a political compromise in which troops are sent to placate the right and then quickly withdrawn to reassure the left.
With NATO foreign ministers set to hold two days of talks, Italy was reported to be considering the biggest increase among European allies made public so far.
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.
New Delhi agreed to take custody of Iranian gas from the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline at the Pakistani border with India, Iranian officials said Wednesday.
You meet all kinds of creative characters in the ski world, to put it mildly.
LONDON (AP) - 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.
Scott P. Brown says if he wins the Republican primary next week and prevails in the special U.S. Senate election in January, the state will have a powerful new kind of representation in Washington, and he would provide a key vote in the Senate to derail some of the Democrats' biggest legislative plans.
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