News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
McChrystal , the commander of American and allied forces in Afghanistan , presented his request for more troops directly to President Obama on Friday as the White House moved closer to settling on a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. General...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Mr Obama gathered his top political, military and security aides for the fourth in a series of in-depth consultations on rescuing the US mission in the unpopular eight-year war. "The president had a robust conversation about the security and...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| about 1 month ago
The top American commander in Afghanistan made his case for more troops directly to President Barack Obama and his top advisers Friday, as the administration sought to play down expectations of a quick decision on its strategy for the faltering war.
News Source: Xtra News
| about 1 month ago
The Greens' Foreign Affairs spokesman hopes US President Barack Obama will see his Nobel Peace Prize as a challenge. The US president was the surprise winner of the coveted award for what the Nobel Committee in Oslo describes as his extraordinary...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
The man who lost last year's presidential election to Barack Obama says Obama knows now that he "has even more to live up to" -- now that he's a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But John McCain tells CNN that "as Americans, we're proud" when the president...
News Source: The Frontier Post
| about 1 month ago
Even as several hundred protestors demanding troops withdrawal from Afghanistan demonstrated outside the White House, there is a growing realisation in the United States cutting across party lines that a pullout will be a dangerous proposition at...