News Source: Reuters
| 19 days ago
President Barack Obama is wrapping up deliberations on war strategy in Afghanistan and is considering final Pentagon options that include sending about 30,000 more troops, officials said on Saturday. A deployment of that size would be less than the...
News Source: Kuwait Times
| 19 days ago
The Obama administration is studying whether to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan and had made little secret of its concerns with Karzai's alleged corruption and ballot-stuffing and his pacts with unsavory warlords. Starting a new term under...
News Source: Press TV
| 19 days ago
The Afghan Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Eide had “exceeded his authority.” On Thursday, Eide said the Afghan government risks losing international support if it continues to allow “warlords and powerbrokers” to...
News Source: The Independent
| 20 days ago
One by one over the past eight years, the arguments for the continued presence of Nato troops in Afghanistan have fallen away. The last one, which held us back until now from calling for withdrawal, was the need to police the Afghan election in...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 20 days ago
Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of the country's west. The probe into a possible friendly fire incident further aggravates already strained relations between Afghan President...
News Source: pakistantimes
| 20 days ago
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday rejected reports that the United Nations is pulling out of Afghanistan, saying its work in the war-torn country will continue. Speculation about the U.N. withdrawal from Afghanistan was touched off by Thursday...