Topic: Kabul
A planned US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will start slowly this summer with about 800 soldiers in two Army units due to depart this month, US officers said Wednesday.The military offered the first details of the troop drawdown after President Barack Obama ...
KABUL (Reuters) - An insurgent killed two people in the Afghan Defense Ministry on Monday in the third attack on security installations in four days, with the violence likely to raise questions about military transition plans due to start this year.A man ...
The Pentagon said Wednesday it yanked the embedding privileges of the journalist at the center of a scandal that led to the sacking of the head of US forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal.Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan said that freelance journalist ...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tightened rules on media relations for the US military, only days after the top general in Afghanistan was sacked over disparaging comments he and aides made in an interview.In a three-page memo sent Friday to senior military ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's security forces will need four to five years before they are fully capable of taking over responsibility for the country's security, its Defense Ministry said on Sunday.NATO foreign ministers agreed at a meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, last week ...
Officials tell AP British ambassador to Kabul has been picked as new NATO Afghan civilian headNATO officials say the alliance has picked Britain's ambassador to Kabul to be its new civilian representative in Afghanistan.Two diplomatic officials say ambassador Mark Sedwill has been ...
US President Barack Obama will lay out broad strategic guidelines for Afghanistan after November 7 runoff elections there but will not " micromanage" the generals fighting the war, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.Clinton made the remarks when asked whether forces ...
The release of a Pentagon investigation into deadly US air strikes in Afghanistan has been delayed amid an internal debate about what details of the report should be revealed, US officials said on Thursday.For days, Defense Department officials have promised to release ...
The release of a Pentagon investigation into deadly US air strikes in Afghanistan has been delayed amid an internal debate about what details of the report should be revealed, US officials have said.For days, Defense Department officials have promised to release an ...
The release of a Pentagon investigation into deadly US air strikes in Afghanistan has been delayed amid an internal debate about what details of the report should be revealed, US officials said on Thursday.For days, Defense Department officials have promised to release ...
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