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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.
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.
President Obama announced Tuesday that he's sending about 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan over the next six months.
From July 2008 until today, time line of the decision-making process behind the surge in Afghanistan
It's time to get behind our troops whether you're a Republican, Democrat or independent. Oh, and NATO, it's time to ante up.
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 department last updated its figures Wednesday at 10 a.m. EST.
US President Barack Obama's most senior diplomatic and military aides worked Wednesday to shelter his new Afghan "surge" strategy from skeptical lawmakers' bruising questions and criticisms.
(RTTNews) - The High Court in the capital of the Punjab province Lahore in Pakistan Thursday dismissed Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi's two petitions against his indictment over last November's terror strike in the Indian financial capital.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s decision to set a target date for starting U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan divided lawmakers as he is seeking to consolidate support for his war plan.
Itzhak Perlman was afflicted with polio when he was 4. Now, 60 years later he's helping to rid the world of the disease.
A suicide bomber struck near the naval headquarters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Wednesday, police said, killing a navy official in the latest attack in the Taliban-troubled nation.
President Obama's plan to expand, then shrink, the U.S. forces fighting the Taliban has critics and supporters at home and in Europe asking for clarification. President Obama's timetable for rapidly expanding and then shrinking U.S. force levels in Afghanistan, a central feature of his new war strategy, raised questions from critics and supporters alike Wednesday, and left top administration ...
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 ...
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