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House approves $37B for Afghanistan and Iraq war spending

House approves $37B for Afghanistan and Iraq war spending

The House approved Tuesday the spending of an additional $37 billion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, overcoming the opposition of some congressional Democrats who have concluded that the Afghan conflict is unwinnable.

 

Pentagon: Leaked Afghan reports are not top-secret

American officials from the president down tried to downplay the leak of thousands of Afghan war documents.

 

Afghan Officials Report 52 Civilians Dead in NATO Strike

The American military has not yet confirmed the deaths from Friday’s strike. It would be the worst civilian toll in an attack in almost a year.

 

5 Biggest Revelations of Wikileaks Documents

Six years' worth of secret U.S. documents relating to the war in Afghanistan have been released by Wikileaks, an Iceland-based website that collects and distributes such information. Some news organizations were given the tens of thousands of ...
documents several weeks early so that they could sift through the files
and prepare their coverage. The revelations are sure to spark wide
debate about the U.S.

 

90,000 Afghan war documents leaked

90,000 Afghan war documents leaked

Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings.

 

Dismissed Gen. McChrystal gets hero's send-off

Dismissed Gen. McChrystal gets hero's send-off

The former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan who was fired over disparaging comments about President Barack Obama and his civilian advisers received a hero's send-off from Pentagon and Afghan leaders at a retirement ceremony Friday.

 

Blast ahead of Afghan summit

Blast ahead of Afghan  summit

A suicide bomber blew himself up in downtown Kabul on Sunday killing, three Afghans and raising fears about the prospect of further attacks in the capital as senior diplomats from dozens of nations are scheduled to arrive for an international conference on Tuesday.

Senh: Sometimes I wonder whether or not I should continue putting up these kinds of news regarding the middle east. There are attacks by suicide bombers everyday in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan.

 

Biden offers Afghan withdrawal number

As few as "a couple of thousand" U.S. troops may leave Afghanistan in the first phase of withdrawing forces from there beginning a year from now, Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

 

Petraeus runs into resistance from Karzai

Petraeus runs into resistance from Karzai

General has met sharp resistance from the Afghan president to an American plan to assist villagers in fighting the Taliban on their own.

 

Steele Blames Afghan War on Obama, Drawing Calls to Resign

Steele Blames Afghan War on Obama, Drawing Calls to Resign

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Friday declared his opposition to the Afghanistan war, saying the nine-year-old conflict was of President "Obama's choosing," and that the mission is "probably a lost cause" – prompting at least ...

 

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