Obama Afghanistan War

World Leaders Discuss Afghanistan's Future At Summit

AP | BEN FELLER and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.21.2012

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CHICAGO — President Barack Obama and NATO allies declared Sunday that the end of the long and unpopular Afghanistan war is in sight even as they...

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Dennis Kucinich: New U.S.-Afghan Agreement Means We're Not Leaving Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- For all the fanfare around President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday declaring the war in Afghanistan over, at least one Democratic law...

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Obama Reacts To Afghanistan Killings

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.11.2012

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WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. officials were scrambling Sunday to determine what caused an American Army soldier to leave his base in southern Afghan...

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A Passage to Kabul

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 02.04.2012

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A recent reading of E. M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India, prompted me to reflect on the West's drawn out engagement in Afghanistan. The centerpi...

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Obama Headed To Dover To View Returning Bodies Of SEALs Killed In Afghanistan Helicopter Crash

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 10.09.2011

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DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. — The fallen come home here with such dignity that every American flag on every case of remains is inspected for the ...

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WATCH: Petraeus Backs Obama On Afghanistan Drawdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.23.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told members of Congress Thursday that he backs President Barack Obama's pla...

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Democrats Disappointed With Obama's Afghanistan Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.22.2011

WASHINGTON -- Democratic lawmakers who have been pressing for a sizable and significant withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan almost universally ...

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Obama Announces Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal In Speech To Nation

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.22.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In a much-anticipated prime time address on Wednesday, President Barack Obama laid out the beginning of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan...

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After A Decade, Gen. Petraeus' Counterinsurgency Strategy Is Deemed A Failure

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 08.22.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan signals the beginning of the end for the ambitious counterinsurgen...

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Obama Sets Course For Troop Withdrawal In Afghanistan

AP | BEN FELLER and JULIE PACE | Posted 08.22.2011

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WASHINGTON — Beginning to wind down a long and devastating war, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday night he was pulling home 33,000 U.S....

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Afghanistan Troop Cut Likely Near 10,000 For This Year: Report

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 08.21.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior U.S. defense official says the troop withdrawal to be announced Wednesday by President Barack Obama is likely to total two...

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Obama 'Finalizing' Decision On Plans For Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 08.20.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will announce the critical next steps in America's decade-long war in Afghanistan on Wednesday, outlining bo...

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Obama To Visit Troops At Fort Drum This Week

AP | Posted 08.20.2011

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WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama will visit troops at New York's Fort Drum this week. The announcement comes as Obama n...

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Bipartisan Group Of Senators Press For Sizable Afghanistan Withdrawal In Letter To Obama

AP | Posted 08.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Democratic and Republican senators are circulating a letter to President Barack Obama pressing for a "sizable and sustained" withdrawal ...

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Obama Administration Entered Direct, Secret Talks With Taliban Leaders: Report

The New Yorker | Steve Koll | Posted 05.25.2011

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On August 22, 1998, Mullah Omar, the emir of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, made a cold call to the State Department. The United States had just lobbed cr...

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Obama: Afghanistan War To See Transition

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the Iraq war is coming to an end and the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan will begin in July. In...

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Opposition To War In Afghanistan Hits All-Time High

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Opposition to the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time high, with 63 percent of the public now opposed to U.S. involvement there, acc...

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WATCH: Obama Administration Responds To Low Public Support For Afghanistan War

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- With public support for the war in Afghanistan at a new low, top Obama administration officials on Thursday defended the United States' ...

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Barack Obama Iraq War Speech: Is It Worth It?

Politics Daily | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011

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But with the economy foundering -- many of the recent stats are discouraging -- most Americans are probably not yearning above all for a report on Ira...

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Most Americans Support Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan (POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jeremy Binckes | Posted 05.25.2011

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A majority of Americans support President Obama's plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan starting in July 2011, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll re...

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In Afghanistan, U.S. Plans Next Major Offensive Into Kandahar

washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even as Marines in Afghanistan continued to fight for control of the Taliban stronghold of Marja, senior Obama administration officials said Friday th...

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Obama War Plan Set To Get Congress' Backing, Despite Misgivings

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Facing the prospect of more American deaths in Afghanistan as the war escalates, lawmakers lashed out at neighboring Pakistan on Th...

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The Best and Brightest of the Obama Administration

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a few days Obama will travel to Oslo, Norway to accept the Nobel Prize. One cannot help but feel, on the heels of this new Afghanistan stance, that he'll be coming into town for his peace prize with guns blazing.

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Obama's War Strategy Has Echoes Of Bush

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — It feels like 2007 all over again. Different war, different president, but "surge" is back in vogue. President Barack Obama's reva...

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No Firm Plans For A U.S. Exit in Afghanistan: "New York Times"

nytimes.com | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration sent a forceful public message Sunday that American military forces could remain in Afghanistan for a long time, seeking to b...

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