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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.
Conservative and liberal lawmakers Wednesday sharply criticized President Obama's plan to start a U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2011.
The threat posed by Al-Qaeda remains strong, experts say, because as well as planning attacks, Osama bin Laden's organisation is inspiring others.
A suicide bomber killed a provincial lawmaker and his brother Tuesday in Pakistan's northwest Swat valley, where the military claims to have quashed a Taliban uprising.
Islamabad - Pakistani security forces killed 10 Islamist militants in an overnight raid on a rebel redoubt in north-western Swat district, the military said on Thursday. The picturesque valley, once a tourism hub, has regained relative peace after th...
Nearly 2,600 bodies have been found in single, unmarked graves and in mass graves throughout mountainous Indian-controlled Kashmir, a human rights group said.
Anxious Democrats show little appetite for seriously blocking President Barack Obama’s new war strategy for Afghanistan and appear to be looking for ways instead to bridge their differences with the White House before funding is debated next year.
Top U.S. officials said the first of 30,000 new U.S. troops would arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks but also made clear on Wednesday that plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghans and Pakistanis Wednesday greeted President Barack Obama's plan to send 30,000-35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan with limited enthusiasm, skepticism that the U.S. has enough staying power to defeat the Taliban-led insurgency and even suspicion that the rapid surge will be followed by a speedy exit.
Weak partners in Afghanistan and Pakistan raise questions about the strategy.
Move to curb extremist factions could end up fueling them.
Chinese leaders have so far resisted U.S. and global calls to let the yuan rise vs. the dollar. At least from their perspective, they see good reasons to keep their currency steady for the time being.
A U.S. judge considering bail for a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman accused of conspiring to launch attacks against a Danish newspaper said on Wednesday she wanted to examine an interview he did with federal agents.
Amid soaring budget deficits, President Barack 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. Still, leaders in Congress predicted Wednesday that Obama would prevail in winning funding for the war escalation.
Washington's NATO allies will face pressure to commit more troops and money to supplement President Barack Obama's troop increase in Afghanistan at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers starting on Thursday.
Full text as prepared for delivery of the president's address to the nation on Tuesday night.
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