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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.
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 ...
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s administration won’t pressure Germany to send more combat troops to Afghanistan, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke told Handelsblatt newspaper in an interview.
The first of 30,000 new U.S. troops will arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks, top U.S. officials said on Wednesday, even as they made clear plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip.
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.
Albania says it has agreed to accept more former Guantanamo detainees, but not members of China's ethnic Uighur Muslim minority.
Bomb explodes near naval complex in Islamabad: Pakistan police
Defeating Al-Qaeda requires turning the tide against insurgents in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday, arguing for a surge of US forces to take on the Taliban.
Can more U.S. troops in Afghanistan really convert Afghans into an effective fighting force? Will allies answer the call to do more? Is Pakistan truly prepared to take on the extremists who pose the greatest threat?
President Barack Obama 's speech on Afghanistan and Pakistan highlights the intractable problem: The United States has no good options.
Nothing about the hard slog in Afghanistan has ever been easy - nor will it be in the future. Here are 10 obstacles facing 30,000 more American G.I.s heading to the war zone.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Afghans who have endured 30 years of war and poor governance greeted President Barack Obama ’s plan for stabilizing their country as a welcome opening for them to take over from U.S. forces, while expressing concern a predetermined exit date might embolden insurgents.
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