Obama Promises To 'Finish The Job' In Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — Signaling he's decided on new troop levels for the Afghanistan war, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he intends to "finish the j...
WASHINGTON — Signaling he's decided on new troop levels for the Afghanistan war, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he intends to "finish the j...
AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called his war council together Monday as he moves toward a decision on whether to add more U.S. forces in A...
Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama is still working on his big decision: what to do about the Afghanistan war? On Wednesday, he held another Situation Room strate...
AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — The White House says President Barack Obama has narrowed down his decision for an Afghanistan strategy to four options. ...
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Though the White House had been shooting for the president to make an announcement about his new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan between November...
Politics Daily | Shahzad Chaudhary | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Sitting in the front row at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, directly in sight of committee Chairman John Kerry, two women discreetly hel...
McClatchy News | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has given the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan 60 days to conduct another review of the American strategy there, t...
Marc Ambinder | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama's new posture toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, to be unveiled tomorrow, codifies for the first time Iran's role in regional dip...
AP | ANNE GEARAN and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is close to announcing a redrawn strategy for a war in Afghanistan that the president says the United Stat...
Politico | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The Pentagon's top military officers are recommending to President Barack Obama that he shift U.S. strategy in Afghanistan -- to focus on ensuring reg...
AP | ANNE GEARAN and JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics