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...don't tell" policy that...More >> Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is defending the Obama administration's plans to wind down the more than decade-long war in Afghanistan.More >> Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is defending the Obama administration's plans... Full Article at KLTV
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the coalition was looking into the alleged incident, but "so far had seen no evidence of civilian casualties". Civilian casualties have been a major source of friction between President Hamid Karzai's... Full Article at Hartford Courant
Afghan patients wait with their relatives to get their prosthesis checked at the ICRC physical rehabilitation center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 27, 2012. Since the ICRC began its rehabilitation program in Afghanistan in 1988, over 43,000 people,... View Photo »
They lied this great nation into the invasion of Iraq and played right into your hands, as Bush’s own anti-terrorism advisor, Richard Clarke wrote. I opposed this war but vowed to clear al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan by shifting our soldiers from Iraq. You know what happened to you all after that, don’t yo...
...don't tell" policy that...More >> Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is defending the Obama administration's plans to wind down the more than decade-long war in Afghanistan.More >> Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is defending the Obama administration's plans... Full Article at KATV
A security official in Kabul confirmed the incident. A man named Mohammad Sahfee, his wife and six of their innocent children were brutally killed,'' he said. A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, Lieutenant-Colonel Jimmie... Full Article at The Age
"The president will be assured of our commitment to take any and all appropriate actions to minimize the likelihood of similar occurrences in the future," the statement said. The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan's war has risen steadily each... Full Article at My Fox Memphis
Afghan patients at the ICRC physical rehabilitation center take their lunch outside on a sunny day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 27, 2012. Since the ICRC began its rehabilitation program in Afghanistan in 1988, over 43,000 people, including 25,000... View Photo »
Even if we may have diverging analyses on NATO and Afghanistan, we are fully conscious that we are allies and thus partners
Like him, he will do his basic officer coursework at Fort Sill, Okla. , then head to Fort Bragg, N.C. , to join the 82nd Airborne Division. That's likely where the similarities will end. With the United States out of Iraq and winding down in... Full Article at Times Herald-Record
"We still have a fight on our hands," Panetta said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "The American people need to know that. The world needs to know that ... but we're on the right track," he added. Last week, NATO allies affirmed a plan to end combat Full Article at KATV
More than 1500 Afghan protesters demanded a stop to military night operations. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is defending the Obama administration's plans to wind down the more than decade-long war in Afghanistan. Speaking Sunday on ABC's "This Week,"... Full Article at San Luis Obispo Tribune
Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, Persian: جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان), is a landlocked country located at the heart of Asia. Generally considered part of Southern Asia, it is sometimes ascribed to a regional bloc in either Central Asia or the Middle East, as it has religious,... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
They lied this great nation into the invasion of Iraq and played right into your hands, as Bush’s own anti-terrorism advisor, Richard Clarke wrote. I opposed this war but vowed to clear al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan by shifting our soldiers from Iraq. You know what happened to you all after that, don’t yo...
Even if we may have diverging analyses on NATO and Afghanistan, we are fully conscious that we are allies and thus partners
key allies ... advocated a more aggressive European Central Bank role in spurring growth -- a measure opposed by Germany -- and an accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Ka-Bull, now Obama spikes bin Laden football in Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be at home this year, as I had to fly to Afghanistan, to remind President Karzai that, exactly one year ago, we killed Osama bin Laden, and that the decision to do so was a gutsy one ... And was mine.
By margins of about 2-1, voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania say the U.S. should not be in Afghanistan, but they approve of what the president is doing there and pluralities say the pace of withdrawal of U.S. troops is about right
All these books, including Poetry of the Taliban, contribute to our knowledge of Afghanistan and the vicissitudes endured by its people in recent decades.
NATO's enduring relationship with Afghanistan
If NATO leaves Afghanistan, these forces will be the first to attack people and property ... The public doesn't have faith in the security forces' abilities, integrity or adherence to the law. If they believed these forces could protect their lives, and properties, they wouldn't be forced to emigrate.
We want to make it clear to you that we, the al Qaeda is an Islamist Jihadist organization that is not restricted to a country or race, and that we in Afghanistan swore allegiance to the Emir Mullah Muhammad (Omar) who allowed us to carry Jihad ... Those that call us as guests do that for political reas...
Both Libya and Afghanistan have shown how agile NATO can be in incorporating the contributions of outsiders.
I interviewed the founder of Al-Qaida, Sheik Abdullah Azzam, way back during the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan.
He and Richard Reid — the last person they saw from al-Qaida before they left the [Afghanistan-Pakistan] region was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
It will show them that they won’t be forgotten ... No matter where they’re from or what era, we honor those who serve whether it’s Vietnam, Korea, World War II, or the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Photographs in the life of Osama bin Laden - from Soviet-occupied Afghanistan to death in Pakistan. (Pictures: Getty/Reuters)
Last time I checked, the United States Social Security Administration was not responsible for handing out social security numbers to people in Afghanistan or Iraq
It is difficult for the Pakistani government to resume NATO supplies ... Islamist groups have warned the government of dire consequences if it tried to reopen the NATO supplies to Afghanistan. The government will have to take people into confidence before opening the supply route.
We have been alongside NATO, or NATO has been alongside us, for 10 years in Afghanistan and Iraq
10 years ago, the United States and our allies went to war to make sure that al Qaeda could never again use this country (Afghanistan) to launch attacks against us.
He clearly understands that this is a very tough fight and that we’re in it until we’re successful, that Al Qaeda is no longer a threat to the United States, and that — and that we are in no danger of either Afghanistan or the western part of Pakistan being a base for Al Qaeda
They are not to target visits by US Vice President Biden, Secretary of Defense [Robert] Gates, Joint Chiefs of Staff [Chairman Mike] Mullen, or the Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan [Richard] Holbrook. The groups will remain on the lookout for Obama or [Gen. David] Petraeus
I’m optimistic because of President (Barack) Obama’s trip to Afghanistan
While the United States and Russia are cooperating on a wide range of issues, from Afghanistan to counterterrorism to trade, cooperation on missile defense could be a game changer in U.S.-Russia and NATO-Russia relations
We were part of the NATO Training Mission Afghanistan (NTMA) ... The ITAG mission was to train and advise members of the Afghan Department of Public Works on how to maintain the Afghan bases that were built by the U.S. for the Afghan army.
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