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President Barack Obama plans to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan over six months, a senior administration official said on Tuesday, accelerating the deployment in a bid to beat back the Taliban and bring a quicker end to a costly and unpopular eight-year war.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The beat was good. Even the song's title, "Turn Your Swag Off," was catchy – but the lyrics needed some explanation. "What does it all mean?" I asked.
President Barack Obama plans to announce on Tuesday that he will send about 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in a long-awaited war strategy shift that he hopes will defeat the Taliban and allow for a U.S. exit.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will announce that he is sending an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, tying his presidency to the outcome of a war that has deteriorated since the U.S. ousted the Taliban from power eight years ago.
President Barack Obama plans to send about 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan over six months, a senior administration official said on Tuesday, in a war strategy shift he hopes will defeat the Taliban and permit a U.S. exit.
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KABUL — When President Barack Obama outlines his new strategy for Afghanistan in a speech tonight, a pivotal element will focus on the country's south, where an influx of troops will try to secure the Taliban's spiritual center and seize a major center for bomb making and drug trafficking.
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.
In Afghanistan, troops walk fine line of winning trust and gaining ground against Taliban.
A suicide bomber on Tuesday killed a member of Pakistan's northwest provincial assembly and his brother in an attack in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat valley, officials said.
WASHINGTON -- With eight years of blood and treasure already spent and perhaps his presidency hanging in the balance, President Barack Obama will tell the world today how he will escalate the war in Afghanistan -- and how he hopes his risky decision will lead finally to a path home for U.S. forces.The stakes of his decision, which was ordered into effect Sunday, are enormous, and the challenges ...
A top Afghan military official said Tuesday that a key part of President Barack Obama's new war plan — accelerating the training of Afghan soldiers — does not go far enough to meet the country's defense needs.
President Barack Obama is sending 30,000 extra U.S. troops to Afghanistan on an accelerated timetable that will have the first Marines there as early as Christmas and all forces in place by summer. But he'll also declare Tuesday night that troops will begin leaving in less than three years.
As President Obama prepares to announce that he's sending more troops to Afghanistan, comparisons to the war in Vietnam are often invoked.
President Obama is expected to announce Tuesday that he's sending more than 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and discuss the U.S. strategy there.
President Obama is in a unique position these days.
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