Success in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second largest city, would mean that McChrystal is on track to achieving Obama's ultimate goal: to start sending US ...
Mr. Obama has preserved much of Mr. Bush's counterterrorism strategy. He not only continued drone missile strikes against terrorist cells in Pakistan, ...
Turning it into a serious fighting force is a priority for the Obama administration—offering the only exit strategy for the US-led coalition as Western ...
It is a high-risk strategy within Afghanistan. The stakes at home in the US – ISAF's main coalition partner – are even higher. The US – which has lost 976 ...
McClatchy Washington Bureau - Robert Marquand - 18 hours ago
While the Obama administration is drafting a timeline for the withdrawal of some US troops from Afghanistan beginning next year, its targets are conditional ...
Public confidence is wavering regarding Obama's Afghanistan strategy. Last year, Obama changed the war strategy twice and he summarized his second effort in ...
Bruce Riedel, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who advised President Barack Obama on his Afghanistan Pakistan strategy said that for ...
... in Afghanistan, where it's a contender to be a key part of President Barack Obama's strategy for stabilizing the country," the AP reported recently. ...
1 speech to the country on the path forward in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama stated: "Our success in Afghanistan is inextricably linked to our ...