Colin Powell To Obama On Afghanistan Troop Decision: "Take Your Time"
In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...
In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...
Mcclatchy | Jay Price, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
KABUL, Afghanistan -- First came the Brezhnev Market. Then the Bush Market. Now Afghans are beginning to call their notorious bazaar full of chow and...
The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...
CBS News | Font Size Print E | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more tro...
Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of ...
McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it unti...
Times Online | Jerome Starkey | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
The charred remains of the UN's Bakhtar guesthouse bear testimony to the gruesome events that unfolded here last week. ...
AP | ELENA BECATOROS and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
KABUL — The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and po...
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.04.2009 | Impact
NBC Nightly News viewers have raised more than $50,000 for an orphanage in Afghanistan, the program reported Tuesday. Last Friday, Nightly News aired ...
Wall Street Journal | By YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The Army's top generals worry that surging tens of thousands more troops into Afghanistan could increase the strain felt by many military personnel af...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and KATHY GANNON | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai promised to stamp out corruption. The image suggested otherwise. Standing at Karzai's side on Tuesday were his tw...
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact
In spite of all we hear about what's going wrong in Afghanistan, I'm here with a story of hope. Last Thursday marked the official opening of the Skateistan skate park, Kabul's largest indoor sports facility.
AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai effectively secured a second term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administ...
AP | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Abdullah Abdullah's call for a boycott of next weekend's runoff election in Afghanist...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
KABUL — Terrified U.N. workers scrambled over the roof or leaped from windows to escape choking smoke and gunfire after being awakened at dawn W...
Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban strongho...
ABC News | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Sources tell ABC News that as of now President Obama will likely announce his decision about a new strategy in Afghanistan at some point between the A...
Washington Post | Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
The Pentagon's top military officer oversaw a secret war game this month to evaluate the two primary military options that have been put forward by th...
Washington Post | Joshua Partlow and Pamela Constable | Posted 10.25.2009 | World
President Hamid Karzai's team shifted aggressively into campaign mode Saturday and ruled out any possibility of a power-sharing deal with challenger A...
New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE and HELENE COOPER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Under heavy international pressure, President Hamid Karzai appears set to concede as early as Tuesday that he fell short of a fi...
Huff TV | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Arianna appeared on CNN's The Situation Room Monday, along with Gloria Borger, Joe Johns and Ben Stein. She discussed the Afghan War, huge Wall Street...
New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
After nearly a month of deliberations by Mr. Obama over whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, frustrations and anxiety are on the rise ...
Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.
John Graham | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
The collapse of US efforts in Vietnam was made inevitable by the pervasive corruption and incompetence of a succession of governments in South Vietnam -- and here lies the lesson for Afghanistan.
Wall Street Journal | ANAND GOPAL | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
KABUL -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai may not accept the results of a vote recount from the summer's general election, officials from his campaign hi...
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics