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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.
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.
Washington – Rep. John B. Larson (D-Dist. 1), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, released the following statement Tuesday night after President Obama’s speech on the path forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Pakistani security forces have killed 15 militants, including a senior commander, in separate clashes as they seek to rout...
U.S. Rep. Brian Baird is “very skeptical” that President Barack Obama’s plan for Afghanistan can succeed, citing concerns about corruption in the country and doubts about neighboring Pakistan becoming a true partner in the effort.
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.
WASHINGTON — Amid soaring budget deficits, President Obama is running into congressional qualms over how to pay for his troop buildup in Afghanistan. Military strategy aside, the $30 billion cost is causing concern on both sides of the aisle.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- President Obama's timetable for American forces in Afghanistan rattled nerves in that country and in Pakistan on Wednesday, as American diplomats worked to convince the two countries at the center of the president's war strategy that the United States would not cut and run.
PARIS -- As political and military leaders across the globe pondered President Obama's announcement of his Afghan strategy, European allies offered a mixed response on Wednesday, with some of the biggest contributors to the NATO coalition withholding promises of immediate troop reinforcements.
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nation's top military officer on Wednesday laid out a muscular defense of President Obama's decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, but they made clear that his plan to begin withdrawing those forces by July 2011 was flexible.
SRINAGAR, India — Nearly 2,600 bodies have been discovered in single unmarked and mass graves throughout mountainous Indian Kashmir, human-rights activists said Wednesday, alleging some of the dead were likely innocent people killed by security forces.
YORK, Maine — The public is invited to York Middle School at 12:30 p.m. Friday, for a world music concert offered as part of a recent $10,000 grant through the Maine Arts Commission.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Failure in Afghanistan would mean a Taliban takeover of the country and “have severe consequences for the United States and the world,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today as the Obama administration set out to sell its new strategy on Capitol Hill.
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania says it has agreed to accept more former Guantanamo detainees, but not members of China’s ethnic Uighur Muslim minority.
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