WASHINGTON - Afghan President Hamid Karzai raised doubts on Sunday that his country could take over responsibility for its security by July 2011, while U.S. leaders said the date was not a drop-dead deadline for Kabul. U.S. President Barack Obama
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is giving different explanations of its July 2011 deadline for the start of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal, assuring foreign officials that it applies only to the 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops t
KABUL The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan says he's absolutely supportive of the 18-month timeline for President Barack Obama's troop surge even if Taliban forces try to wait out the increased U.S. commitment. Gen. Stanley McChrystal told repor
0800: Benfica confirm midfielder Hassan Yebda will spend the rest of this season on loan at Portsmouth.
1000: Egyptian club Zamalek reject a bid by Portsmouth to take ex-Wigan forward Amr Zaki on loan.
1000: Stoke announce the signing of Danny Colli
Some key dates in the communication leading up to the Lockerbie bomber's release: • June 7, 2007: Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond writes to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, expressing concern that the role of the Scottish government ha
Summary of events in the case of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi: Dec. 21, 1988: Pan Am Flight 103, heading to New York from London's Heathrow airport, explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland. The explosion kills 259 people on board, and
Despite Iran's progress since 2007 toward producing enriched uranium, the State Department's intelligence analysts continue to think that Tehran will not be able to produce weapons-grade material before 2013, according to a newly disclosed congressi
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