Give Pakistan aid, not weapons
Canada should lend Pakistan a helping hand as it struggles to stabilize its chaotic border region with Afghanistan, which is plagued by Taliban militants who threaten stability. It doesn t follow that Prime Minister Stephen Harper s government needs ...
 1.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 68.0 U.N. plans to relocate its workers
KABUL (AP) The United Nations said today that it is temporarily relocating more than half its international staff in Afghanistan following last week s deadly Taliban attack against U.N. workers the most direct targeting of its employees during de...
0.7K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 68.0 Pakistan army enters Taliban stronghold
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban fighters today in the streets of a key militant stronghold, officials said, as government forces pressed ahead with their offensive in the tribal region of South Waziristan. The soldiers were fighti...
3.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 954.0 Avoidance won't end overseas war
Our military waits for Obama to act on his commanding general s request for more personnel. These additional troops are needed to effectively defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. While our brave men and women in uniform wait for reinforcements, Obama s...
1.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 68.0 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 519.0 Karzai wins Afghan election without a vote
KABUL Afghanistan s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country s tumultuous ballot today, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round. The Obam...
6.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 107.0 Suicide bomber kills 30 near Pakistan's capital; UN suspends work
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan s capital today, as the U.N. said spreading violence had forced it to pull out some expatriate staff and suspend long-term development work in areas along the ...
1.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 68.0 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 68.0 UN evaluates Afghan mission after attack
KABUL (AP) Traumatized U.N. staff in Afghanistan were under orders to stay home today, one day after Taliban militants stormed a guest house in the capital and killed eight people in a brazen attack that is forcing the world body to re-evaluate its...
1.3K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 452.0 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 68.0 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 107.0 Gunmen storm U.N. site in Kabul, 12 dead
KABUL (AP) Taliban militants wearing suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early today, killing 12 people including six U.N. staff in the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine n...
0.8K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 351.0 8 US troops die; Oct. Afghan war's deadliest month
KABUL (AP) Eight American troops were killed in multiple bomb attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since it began in 2001. The eight deaths occurred during multiple, complex bomb s...
2.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 452.0 Helicopter crashes kill 14 Americans in Afghanistan
KABUL Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans today in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale confer...
6.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 176.0 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 68.0 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 68.0 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 68.0 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 136.0 Army brigadier, soldier killed in Pakistan capital
ISLAMABAD (AP) Suspected militants on a motorbike shot and killed a senior army officer and a soldier in the Pakistani capital today, striking at security forces as the military wages a major anti-Taliban offensive in the northwest. Civilians fleei...
4.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 519.0 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 272.0 | 
