President Barack Obama declared an end to the seven-year US combat mission in Iraq and told war-weary Americans that our central mission as a people is to restore the sagging US economy and US must focus on its fight against al Qaeda and the war in Afghanistan. Obama, who inherited the war from President George W.
KABUL: About two dozen Taliban militants — at least some dressed in US military uniforms — were killed Saturday in a failed attempt to storm two US-run bases in a city in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said.
The United States and other countries worldwide have now pledged a total of more than 700 million dollars towards flood relief in Pakistan, a senior US official said Monday. The United Nations General Assembly meeting last Thursday was a real galvanizing moment in terms of contributions from other countries, said Dan Feldman, the deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Afghan war commander General David Petraeus reserved the right to tell President Barack Obama it is too early to start withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan in July 2011.
The bullet-riddled bodies of two American and six German doctors have been discovered in dense forest in northern Afghanistan.
For the first time since the publication on-line on Sunday of tens of thousands of classified reports about the war in Afghanistan, US President Obama has weighed in on the leak of the of secret military documents. While I am concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations. The fact is these documents do not reveal any issues that have not already informed our public debate on Afghanistan
KABUL: Afghan officials have claimed arrest of six Taliban commanders, including former Taliban minister Mullah Abdul Hai Motmahen, during an operation in Ghazni province in south Afghanistan. “Six Taliban commanders including Mullah Abdul Hai Motmahen were arrested in Andar district of Ghazni province last night,” district governor Sher Khan Yusufzai told foreign news agency.
Afghanistan :- Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked an International Donors Conference that Afghanistan wants responsibility for the country’s security by 2014 on Tuesday. The international conference in Afghanistan released a communiqu agreeing that the forces should begin taking security responsibility in some areas by the end of this year and should lead security operations in all provinces by the end of 2014. Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) should lead and conduct military operations in all provinces by the end of2014, said the communiqu.
Faisal Shahzad, Pakistan-born American who has admitted to trying to set off a car bomb in Times Square said in a video, taped before the failed attack it was to avenge the US war in Afghanistan, Al Arabiya television said on Wednesday. “This attack on the United States will also be a revenge attack for all the mujahideen,” a man purported to be Faisal Shahzad said on the video aired by the television.
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