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Gates: US Should Stay Involved in Afghanistan

BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that both the U.S. and Afghan governments agree the American military should remain involved in Afghanistan after the planned 2014 end of combat operations to help train and advise Afghan forces. "Obviously it would be a small fraction of the presence...

US Envoy Richard Holbrooke in Critical Condition After Surgery

WASHINGTON (Dec. 11) - The State Department says Richard Holbrooke, the president's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is in critical condition at a Washington hospital after surgery to repair a tear in his aorta. Department spokesman P.J. Crowley says the surgery at George Washington University Hospital was...

Five Females Seeking to Fly for Afghan Air Force

This is the second in a series of stories by our special correspondent about military aviation issues linked to the war in Afghanistan. Read also the growing pains of the Afghan air force and about the U.S. Air Force's transporter dilemma. KABUL, Afghanistan (Oct. 30) -- Masooma Hussaini's path to becoming one of the...

Opinion: Why Taliban Talks Would Be a Good Thing

(Oct. 6) -- A report Wednesday in The Washington Post that negotiations have resumed between the Afghan government and the Taliban is good news for a war-weary United States. With the U.S. surge nearly complete, American forces are inflicting heavy casualties but hardly winning hearts and minds. Afghans know that the...

World Ramps Up Aid to Flood-Stricken Pakistan

GHAZI AIR BASE, Pakistan (Aug. 19) -- The world ramped up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Thursday three weeks after the crisis began, and U.S. Sen. John Kerry said Washington did not want Islamist extremists to come out of the disaster stronger. The U.S., Germany and Saudi Arabia all announced new pledges of aid,...

Background on Afghanistan Pakistan relations

Afghanistan–Pakistan relations began in August 1947 after British India was partitioned into the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

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