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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.
WEST POINT, N.Y. - President Barack Obama says the United States' strategy for Afghanistan must include a policy for its neighbor Pakistan. Speaking to Army cadets at West Point, Obama outlined an escalated approach to Afghanistan that includes 30,000 new U.S. forces.
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."
KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Iranian gas from the South Pars field will be used by customers in Pakistan by as early as 2013, the Iranian consul general in Pakistan said.
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.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Supreme Court said Tuesday it will soon begin examining an expired amnesty covering the president and key allies. The decision launches a process that could unseat the U.S.-allied leader just as the Obama administration needs stability in Islamabad to help crack down on the Taliban.
Islamabad - A suicide bomber struck a security checkpoint outside the Naval Headquarters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Wednesday, killing one soldier, police said. The bomber, who was on foot, detonated his explosives when security officials sto...
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.
Can more U.S. troops in Afghanistan really convert Afghans into an effective fighting force? Will allies answer the call to do more? Is Pakistan truly prepared to take on the extremists who pose the greatest threat?
President Barack Obama 's speech on Afghanistan and Pakistan highlights the intractable problem: The United States has no good options.
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.
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.
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