Al-Qaida training sites are harder to locate
WASHINGTON (AP) Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to...
 1.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 322.0 Pakistan Taliban: 'We are prepared for a long war'
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A Taliban spokesman denied today that Pakistan has won a series of battlefield victories in its offensive in tribal South Waziristan, saying the militants are drawing government soldiers into a trap. We are prepared for a lo...
2.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 62.0 Pakistanis voice frustrations
ISLAMABAD (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face today with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terro...
5.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 62.0 Obama mulls a reduce troop plan
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is considering a scaled-down version of the war plan advanced by his top Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. officials say. Such a narrowed military mission would increase American forces to accom...
5.7K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 62.0 President honors fallen soldier
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of their nation sleeps in peace. In a midnight dash to ...
4.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 62.0 NATO considers beefing up support
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) Top NATO and United Nations officials signaled Friday they may request more international troops to join American forces in Afghanistan as the top U.S. defense official said President Barack Obama is still weeks away from ...
4.7K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 62.0 NATO considers beefing up support
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) Top NATO and United Nations officials signaled Friday they may request more international troops to join American forces in Afghanistan as the top U.S. defense official said President Barack Obama is still weeks away from ...
4.7K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 62.0 Current strategy is a loser
More and more, it looks as though President Barack Obama is going to adopt a split the difference policy on Afghanistan that will basically continue current strategy and likely lead to catastrophe. Obama told congressional leaders he does not int...
3.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 62.0 Blasts at Pakistan air base, wedding bus kill 24
ISLAMABAD (AP) A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan today, while an explosion killed 17 on a bus heading to wedding elsewhere in the region, the latest in a surge of militant attacks this month....
3.8K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 98.0 Shelling in Somali capital kills 20
MOGADISHU, Somalia Islamic insurgents fired mortars at Somalia s airport as the president was boarding a plane today, sparking battles that killed at least 20 people as return fire slammed into residential areas and a market, officials said. The pr...
3.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 62.0 Suspected US missile kills 3 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three alleged militants in Pakistan s North Waziristan tribal region. The region lies adjacent to South Waziristan, an al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold tha...
0.6K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 249.0 NATO needs to leave Afghanistan
The request by the United States and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, for an additional 40,000 troops sharply highlights NATOs rapidly worsening problems. There is, however, a void at the centre of NATO policy on Afghanistan...
1.0K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 98.0 President won't commit on troops
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will not commit more U.S. troops to Afghanistan until he is convinced that the central government can be a credible and effective U.S. partner, a senior White House aide said Sunday. But it was unclear whether Obam...
4.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 62.0 Pakistani army fights militants in mountains
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Troops fought militants on three fronts and fighter jets bombed insurgent positions today as Pakistan pressed ahead with its assault on an al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border. The army and the T...
1.4K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 249.0 Blast kills four soldiers
KABUL (AP) A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would force a runoff...
4.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 62.0 Blast kills four soldiers
KABUL (AP) A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would force a runoff...
4.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 62.0 We have our own home-grown terrorists
What you need to know about Michael C. Finton is that he parked a van in front of a federal building in Springfield, Ill., believing it was loaded with explosives. He then twice made cell phone calls that he thought would detonate the bombs. Finton n...
3.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 124.0 Gunmen kill 39 in five attacks in Pakistan's cultural capital
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan s cultural capital of Lahore, and car bombs exploded in two cities near the Afghan border today, killing 39 people in an escalating ...
7.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 62.0 Afghanistan corruption worries McChrystal
WASHINGTON (AP) The top military commander in Afghanistan is asking for up to 80,000 more American troops even as he warns that rampant government corruption there may prevent victory against the Taliban and al-Qaida, according to U.S. officials br...
4.7K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 162.0 Obama can t duck an Afghanistan decision
Afghanistan used to be a great issue for Barack Obama. As a candidate, he repeatedly argued George W. Bush and his Defense Department had lost their way, focusing too much attention (and troops and resources) on Iraq while shortchanging the more impo...
3.2K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 62.0 | 
