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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.
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.
Pakistani security forces have killed 15 militants, including a senior commander, in separate clashes as they seek to rout the Taliban from strongholds in the country's northwest, officials said Thursday.
Pakistani troops have killed 12 suspected militants in operations in northwest Swat valley, where the military claims to have stemmed an Islamist uprising, the army said Thursday.
Lawmakers from both parties searched for weaknesses Wednesday in President Barack Obama's newly announced Afghan strategy, focusing on what many said was a contradiction between his promise to begin removing U.S. troops in 18 months and his caveat that departures will depend on ''conditions on the ground.''
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has bought himself some time on Afghanistan and lived up to his promise to seek policies that fit into no one's philosophical pigeonholes. He has also split his own party, diminished the enthusiasm of his natural allies, yet earned himself no lasting credit with his domestic adversaries. By these measures, Obama's surge-and-wind-down strategy is both gutsy ...
Regarding sending more troops to Afghanistan (Dec. 2 article, "Escalate, exit / Obama orders Afghan surge with departure to begin July 2011"): I recall talking to an older person long ago, when I was younger and we were engaged in helping Afghanistan against the Russians. He must have been about the age I am now. In casual conversation, I questioned why on Earth we were there, halfway around the ...
President Obama has made official what most had expected and many had feared. He announced his decision to increase the troop levels in Afghanistan. The decision was in a way almost inevitable.
President Barack Obama 's speech on Afghanistan and Pakistan highlights the intractable problem: The United States has no good options.
President Barack Obama has bought himself some time on Afghanistan and lived up to his promise to seek policies that fit into no one's philosophical pigeonholes. He has also split his own party, diminished the enthusiasm of his natural allies, yet earned himself no lasting credit with his domestic adversaries.
Lawmakers back troop increase but question announced target date for withdrawal
Gates, Clinton face skepticism during hearings in Congress
This is what the president said to me about Afghanistan : We'll try this additional force for another 18 months. During this time, the Afghan leaders must cobble together a government that can provide for and protect its people. In the meantime, the United States and its allies must destroy al Qaeda and its Taliban allies in and on the border of Pakistan . At the end of this period, assuming ...
The threat posed by Al-Qaeda remains strong, experts say, because as well as planning attacks, Osama bin Laden's organisation is inspiring others.
As of Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, at least 851 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The...
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