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
KABUL - President Barack Obama has his troop surge. Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces have theirs. While the new U.S. war strategy was unveiled with worldwide fanfare, Afghan's defense force has been quietly planning its own troop buildup to
KABUL - President Barack Obama has his troop surge. Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces have theirs. While the new U.S. war strategy was unveiled with worldwide fanfare, Afghan's defense force has been quietly planning its own troop buildup to
President Obama, seated at a long table in the White House Situation Room, stared at slides showing various options for sending additional U.S. troops into .He and his top national security advisers had been debating the way forward for two full mon
LONDON - Opposition leader David Cameron on Saturday met troops in Afghanistan and said he believed troop withdrawals were unlikely to happen in 2010. Cameron, on a visit to Helmand, said British forces were spread too thinly across the troubled so
BRUSSELS - The United States welcomed new troop commitments from its allies to fight the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, warning the battle was a crucial test for NATO. Eight years after driving the Taliban out of power, more than 40 nations a
WASHINGTON - Officials say Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed the first orders deploying troops to Afghanistan under President Barack Obama's new surge strategy. The defense and military officials say Gates signed orders for the first group o
David Cameron has visited British troops serving in southern Afghanistan.The Tory leader travelled to Helmand Province, the epicentre of the battle against the Taliban, where nearly 100 UK personnel have died this year. Mr Cameron said he wanted to
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