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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.
Sen. Carl Levin says a partnership with local security forces is vital to success behind a U.S. buildup. Defense Secretary Gates says additional troops will deploy in 2 to 3 weeks. As top administration officials appeared before Congress today to defend the troop buildup in Afghanistan, and with the Pentagon saying the first additional troops will deploy within two to three weeks, a key Senate ...
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.
The first of 30,000 new U.S. troops will arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks, top U.S. officials said on Wednesday, even as they made clear plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip.
The moment has to happen sometime in a new administration, and the Afghanistan speech was it: the end of the Obama campaign of limitless aspiration and the acknowledgement of a presidency burdened by harsh realities and difficult choices.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- More than 2,900 bodies were discovered over the past three years in “mass graves” in 55 villages across three districts in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir , a rights group said.
The 41 other nations contributing to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have had to wait to hear U.S. President Barack Obama's plans. But in the end he has come down firmly on the side of the "One More Push" brigade rather than those urging "Let's Cut our Losses and Quit."
Albania says it has agreed to accept more former Guantanamo detainees, but not members of China's ethnic Uighur Muslim minority.
Bomb explodes near naval complex in Islamabad: Pakistan police
Defeating Al-Qaeda requires turning the tide against insurgents in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday, arguing for a surge of US forces to take on the Taliban.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan and India will achieve peace only with an accord on the disputed territory of Kashmir, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said as India’s government said it won’t hold talks until the government in Islamabad tackles terrorism.
In his speech on Afghan strategy Tuesday, President Obama said that Pakistan and the United States "share a common enemy." Obama also said success in Afghanistan "was inextricably linked" to Pakistan eradicating safe havens within its borders. Many Pakistanis, however, reject that premise.
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.
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 2, 2009 - A suicide bomber attacked Pakistan's navy headquarters in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, killing a naval policeman and injuring 11 others in the latest blast in the insurgency-hit nation.
A suicide bomber set off explosives hidden under his jacket outside the entrance of Pakistan 's navy headquarters Wednesday, killing one security guard and wounding 11 other people, police said.
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.
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