News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday based his commitment to the global fight in Afghanistan in part on reforms in the Kabul government. Brown in a speech at the Royal College of Defense Studies said British national security depended on...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
His warning comes after the deaths of seven British soldiers this past week, including five who were allegedly shot by an Afghan police officer they were training. The bells of the church in the British town of Wootton Basset toll for another...
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Afghan leaders he won't leave British troops in Afghanistan as long as government corruption exists. In a speech given Friday to shore up wavering public opinion in Britain about the Afghan war by saying the...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's new government risks losing international support unless it meets five key tests, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday. The expansion and training of the Afghan army and police must be the new government'...
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 month ago
Facing surging public opposition to the war in Afghanistan , Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the government in Kabul, threatening to withhold additional British troops if it did not act swiftly to combat widespread...
News Source: South Africa News
| about 1 month ago
He said he had spoken to Karzai, whose re-election was confirmed this week, several times in recent days and urged progress on the key issues of security, governance, reconciliation, economic development and regional relations. "If the government...