U.S. path out of Afghanistan faces risks
By Missy Ryan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, where the United States has already trimmed its forces ahead of ...
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The Taliban are desperate to kill off any peace talks with President Hamid Karzai's regime in Kabul
The Telegraph
Nato is making no progress on withdrawing from Afghanistan with honour , says Con Coughlin.
As NATO prepares to meet, Taliban attack reminder of volatility in Afghanistan
McClatchy
Three days ahead of a summit meeting in Chicago of NATO leaders to plot their countries? departure from Afghanistan, the Taliban on Thursday provided ...
House GOP defense bill challenges Obama policy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In an election-year challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans are pressing ahead with a defense budget that adds billions ...
Obama requesting help to pay for Afghan army
WASHINGTON — Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the United States and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country ...
From Salala to Chicago: Pakistan's difficult decisions
Foreign Policy
A balancing act On May 14, 2012, Pakistan took a wise step toward transforming the potentially impotent Afghan reconciliation efforts into some that ...
Op-Ed Contributors: NATO: When I’m Sixty-Four
The NATO alliance still underwrites our security and underpins our prosperity.
U.S. may send women to elite Ranger school: top Army chief
By Lily Kuo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army is considering putting female soldiers through Ranger School, an intense weeks-long combat boot camp ...
Pakistani president to attend NATO summit
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's president says he will attend the two-day NATO summit that starts Sunday in Chicago and that will largely focus on the Afghan ...
NATO's hard sell at the summit
Chicago Tribune
In 1949, shortly after the Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear weapon, the United States and 11 Western European nations formed NATO.