Fri. November 20, 2009
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BBC News
November 18, 2009
Perhaps he was trying to avoid the inevitable grilling over
Afghanistan or
health care that follows him around the globe like a stubborn shadow. ...
New York Daily News
November 18, 2009
On
health care, Democrats and more liberal voters back him, but they do not on the impending
Afghanistan decision, while more conservative voters do, ...
Washington Post
November 18, 2009
Afghanistan's
wealth of mineral resources represents a potential bright spot in an otherwise feeble
economy. Flush with copper, iron, marble, ...
Reuters
November 18, 2009
Afghanistan relies on aid for around 90 percent of its spending. "Many individuals felt that though much had been promised to the Afghan people, ...
guardian.co.uk
November 18, 2009
He praised the Afghan president for holding his country together but admitted: "He has some strengths, but he has some weaknesses. I'm less concerned about ...
Reuters
November 18, 2009
Voice of America
November 18, 2009
Mr. Obama did not elaborate on those measures during an interview with CNN, saying only that
the US has a vital interest in making sure that
Afghanistan is ...
guardian.co.uk
November 17, 2009
Shortly after he arrived in
Afghanistan earlier this month he wrote a
blog post, entitled Hello from Afghan, telling friends he had reached the frontline. ...
WBUR
November 17, 2009
Alan Khazei is proposing that
the US draw down the number of troops in
Afghanistan and have Afghan troops take over counterinsurgency operations. ...
Orlando Sentinel
November 17, 2009
She is an
army cook who has no one to care for her 10-month-old son if she deploys to
Afghanistan. You can find The Associated Press story here. ...
Christian Science Monitor
November 17, 2009
What drove his radicalization may be related to his statement to colleagues that
the US was battling not against security threats in
Iraq and
Afghanistan, ...
TPM (blog)
November 17, 2009
CBS News
November 17, 2009
Council on Foreign Relations
November 17, 2009
How do the Afghans regard the
US forces currently in
Afghanistan, and how do they feel about an increase in troops? It depends on the Afghan you talk to. ...
Reuters
November 17, 2009
ABC News
November 17, 2009
New York Daily News
November 11, 2009
Why is it that the monumental
health care vote was first preceded by town hall outbursts and Washington marches, while the war in
Afghanistan has been ...
Follow events in
Afghanistan and
Pakistan, day by day. A policeman and volunteers at Lady Reading hospital in
Peshawar assisted a man who was injured in the ...
Talking to media persons on the sidelines of a foundation laying ceremony at the Aiwan-e-Quaid-e-Azam here, Gilani said
Pakistan has clarified its stance on ...
A joint Afghan-American rescue mission of
soldiers went to search for them and were attacked by local
Taliban forces. When an airstrike was called in by the ...
Nidal M. Hasan allegedly opened fire with two
handguns on
soldiers being processed for deployment to
Iraq and
Afghanistan. Thirteen people were killed and ...
If you kill three or four terrorists, you will lose hundreds of people, as happens in
Pakistan these days. The 1500-mile-long border
Afghanistan shares with ...
Has this week seen a 'tipping point' on attitudes to the war in
Afghanistan? Some people certainly think so, and with that political debate heating up and ...
They are examining the combination of job stress, fear of deployment to the
Afghanistan war zone, social isolation,
religion and other factors to learn what ...
And now it's apparent that Obama, too, will spend the bulk of his presidency confronting terror, from
Afghanistan to new battlezones, such as central
Texas. ...
Just like
Germany, many of the
people of Afghanistan don't support
al-Qaeda or
Taliban, but they live in that country and are grateful for our work. ...
Organisers said it had been the biggest turnout for years, with many people climbing up lampposts and standing on bins to get a glimpse of the ceremony. ...
Maj Hasan's motives for the shooting are unknown, but some reports said
the US-born
Muslim had been unhappy about being deployed to
Afghanistan. ...
British troops are again in harms way, this time in
Afghanistan. One of the British forces main tasks in Afghanistan is to curb the drug trade -- mainly ...
Neither to
the US nor of course to the Afghan people. MARGARET WARNER: Do you have any doubts about the US commitment to
Afghanistan? ...
More than 5200 American men and women, kids really - have been killed in
Iraq and
Afghanistan. It may be a small number in two small
wars but if you're one ...
