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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.
KABUL -- The top American general in Afghanistan told his subordinates Wednesday that strengthening the Afghan security forces would be "the most important thing we do in the future" while urging the soldiers under his command to redouble their efforts in the difficult months ahead.
The Nation -- Is he lying to us? When President Obama talks about withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan in July, 2011, does he mean it? Or is that a clever ruse in order to blunt criticism from the left, and from congressional Democrats, of his decision to escalate the war?
WASHINGTON -- Looking to end one of America's longest wars,President Barack Obama will send another 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan by next summer, but start to withdraw at least someAmerican forces in July 2011.
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Baldwin, Feingold oppose plan to add troops in Afghanistan .
The top U.S. battlefield commander said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama's 30,000-strong troop increase for the Afghan war would make a huge difference, as the White House prepared to sell the new strategy to Congress.
Connie Mack (FL-14), the Ranking Republican of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, issued the following statement this evening on President Obama's primetime address to the nation about U.S. policy in Afghanistan.
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Obama administration's new surge-and-exit troop strategy in Afghanistan is aimed more at wringing reforms from President Hamid Karzai than mollifying a war-weary American public.
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A suicide bomber attacked Pakistan's navy headquarters in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, killing a naval official and injuring 11 others in the latest blast in the Taliban-troubled nation.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the Afghan government and its international partners should use the coming 18 months to convince the Taliban they can't win and offer militants a way to quit the insurgency "with dignity."
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- While President Barack Obama plans to start withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan a year after completing his troop buildup, some Afghans say the necessary progress in stabilizing the country may not happen that quickly.
WASHINGTON - Text of President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday about his plans for the Afghanistan war, as provided by the White House:
WEST POINT — Declaring ”our security is at stake,“ President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops Tuesday night into the long war in Afghanistan, nearly tripling the force he inherited as commander in chief.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday he's "absolutely supportive" of the 18-month timeline for President Barack Obama's troop surge even though Taliban forces may try to wait out the increased U.S. commitment. He said the U.S. and its partners need to convince the Taliban they cannot win.
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