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NATO Short Hundreds of Trainers for Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan -- More nations are pledging support, yet NATO still faces a shortage of 740 trainers needed to get Afghan soldiers and policemen ready to take the lead in securing their nation, the coalition's top training official says. Needed most are 290 police trainers, including those to work in new training...

US Wobbles on 2011 Date for Afghan Withdrawal

(Nov. 11) -- U.S. troops could be looking at four more years in Afghanistan. That's according to top Obama administration officials, who are now talking more about the end of 2014 as the date when Afghans will take charge of their own security rather than the summer 2011 for the start of the U.S. pullout. The...

EA Defends Taliban Name Change in 'Medal of Honor'

(Oct. 4) -- In the weeks leading up to EA's decision to finally yank a controversial feature of its new "Medal of Honor" game that would have allowed the player to control the Taliban in multiplayer mode, publisher Electronic Arts vehemently defended its position as a crucial issue of free speech and its game as a piece of...

Bodies From Afghan Chopper Crash Arrive in US

(Sept. 23) -- The bodies of nine American soldiers and sailors killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan two days ago have arrived home to a Delaware air base. Tuesday's crash in southern Afghanistan's Zabul province was the deadliest for coalition forces in nearly a year. NATO said it's investigating the cause, but...

US Troops Allegedly Took Afghan Fingers as Souvenirs

(Sept. 9) -- In one of the most grisly war crimes investigations to date, 12 American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly murdered Afghan civilians for sport and collected bits of their fingers as war souvenirs. Five of the soldiers have been charged with killing three Afghan civilians in...

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Tom Hayden: What Is Obama's Position on Afghanistan? Say It Again?

As a candidate opposing the Iraq War, Barack Obama improved his hawkish credentials by promising to track down Osama bin Laden, expand drone attacks, and escalate the American troop numbers in Afghanistan.

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Would You Pledge $20.14 to End the War in Afghanistan?

Last weekend marked another grim new milestone for the war in Afghanistan: more than twice as many U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan since President Obama took office than in the eight years Bush was President.

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Aid Groups Respond To Obama Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal

Humanitarian aid groups in Afghanistan reacted to President Barack Obama's plan to begin pulling U.S. troops out of that country this summer with surprise, but also some indifference, saying the withdrawal would have little impact on their projects.

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Obama Announces Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal In Speech To Nation

In a much-anticipated prime time address on Wednesday, President Barack Obama laid out the beginning of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, assuring the nation that 33,000 U.S. troops will be pulled out by the autumn of 2012.

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Leading Progressives in Congress Call for Sizable and Significant Afghan Drawdown

On March 16, 2011, the four Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Task Force on Peace and Security and 76 other Members of Congress sent a letter to the President asking him to move swiftly to end America's longest war, the war in Afghanistan.