Topic: The Taliban
US President Barack Obama confronts a political storm over Afghanistan on Tuesday when he meets leading figures in Congress on whether the country should send more troops to fight the Taliban.With debate heating up on the unpopular war following a spike in ...
The Bush administration repeatedly sought to block investigations into alleged killings of up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners by a US-backed Afghan warlord in 2001, The New York Times reported Thursday.Top US officials discouraged separate probes by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ...
The United States is winding down efforts to destroy poppy fields in Afghanistan, the US regional envoy said, blaming the zealous approach for pushing farmers toward the Taliban.Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said President Barack Obama's administration was ...
Senate confirms 3 for Justice posts, including lawyers for Clemens, 'American Taliban'Lanny Breuer, pitcher Roger Clemens' lawyer in a steroid investigation and President Bill Clinton's impeachment attorney, was confirmed by the Senate on Monday as chief of the Justice Department's criminal division.Senators ...
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: But he has stepped into a vacuum in the party, and as a radio demagogue whose rants can trigger thousand of phone calls to offending politicians from angry fans, he ...
How the President-elect might emulate Ike and Nixon.The World Obama Faces: Unless Obama is prepared to let his presidency at least in terms of foreign policy be defined by the choices made by George W. Bush he will have to end or ...
Junk-bond king, Taliban soldier among those asking Bush for pardons or release from prisonSome high-profile convicts past and present are among more than 2,000 people asking President George W. Bush to pardon them or commute their prison sentences before he leaves office.Junk-bond ...
Democrat Barack Obama has vowed to avert a " potential meltdown" in the clogged financial system as he listed his top priorities if he is elected America's first black president next week.At campaign rallies in Iowa and Indiana, the Illinois senator said ...
I have supported Sen. Barack Obama for president for well over a year, mainly on the strength of his positions on international affairs--I judged him the candidate most likely to restore America's position in the world. Yet before those leaders had been ...
When last we left the Bush administration's so-called benchmarks for strategic progress in Iraq -- that is, the political progress that military success allows -- they weren't being met, and the White House didn't care. Now that the year's almost over and ...
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Taliban: Behind The Masks
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Exporting the Taliban Revolution - Afghanistan
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