VOA双语新闻 - 美拟组织阿富汗民众加强地方治安

The Pentagon is preparing what it calls a pilot program to organize local Afghan citizens to help secure their towns and neighborhoods. The program is similar to one in Iraq that was a key factor in security improvements there during the last year. 美

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—克林顿国务卿为阿富汗撤军计划辩护

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Senators that President Barack Obamas decision to withdraw 33,000 American troops from Afghanistan by the end of next summer was a tough call that strikes the right balance amid competing interests. At a Senate

VOA双语新闻：美将领马伦对阿富汗未来抱有希望

The top U.S. military officer says critics who claim it will take years to even have a chance to defeat the Afghan insurgency ignore the fact that a similar counterinsurgency strategy turned around a similarly difficult situation in Iraq in 2007. The

VOA双语新闻：阿富汗总统否认上月选举有重大舞

Afghanistan's president is denying there was any major fraud in last month's voting. Full, preliminary results show the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, capturing enough votes to avoid a runoff with his closest challenger. 阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊否认上个

布什会见阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊讲话(2008-05-17)

PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. President, good to see you, thanks. President Karzai and I have had a lot of meetings together, and this was a very upbeat meeting, and I want to thank you for coming. I appreciate your courage. Appreciate you taking on a very tou

VOA双语新闻 ---塔利班袭击阿富汗检阅式总统无恙

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has survived an assault by Taliban militants on a military parade in Kabul. At least three people were killed, including a parliament member, and eight others were wounded in the attack. 阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊在咯布

VOA双语新闻 - 北约盟国承诺向阿富汗增兵七千人

Twenty-five NATO countries and other contributors to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have pledged about 7,000 additional troops to supplement the new U.S. force commitment to Afghanistan. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

VOA双语新闻 - 劳拉.布什敦促美继续支持阿富汗

U.S. First Lady Laura Bush says the United States must remain engaged in Afghanistan - and she is vowing to remain involved in efforts to help Afghan women long after her husband's term in office ends. 美国第一夫人劳拉.布什说，美国必须继

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—美驻阿大使：美国不会抛弃阿富汗

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States began a new engagement in the Muslim world. One of the key architects of that engagement is the newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker. 2001年9/11恐怖袭击发生后

VOA双语新闻：塔利班宣称对阿富汗自杀袭击负责

A powerful suicide bomb in Afghanistan has killed the country's deputy chief of the national spy agency and 22 others. Taliban insurgents have claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. The violence comes as the United Nations has reported a signi

VOA双语新闻：沃尔夫议员提出成立阿富汗特别委

Pointing to what he calls eroding public support for the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan, a key Republican lawmaker is urging President Barack Obama to again lay out clearly for Americans what he believes is at stake there. U.S. lawmakers receive

VOA双语新闻：塔利班袭击阿富汗首都附近政府大

The latest offensive by the Taliban on Afghanistan's government infrastructure has taken place in a province adjacent to the national capital. Authorities say in the extended battle in Logar province at least two policemen and four of the assailants

VOA双语新闻 - 盖茨呼吁在阿富汗有更协调的政策

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States and its allies need a more coherent strategy in Afghanistan. And he believes General David Petraeus, who took command of U.S. forces throughout the Middle East and Central Asia on Friday, can

VOA常速英语2013--美国,阿富汗希望对未来安全达成协议

US, Afghans Stalled on Future Security美国,阿富汗希望对未来安全达成协议 The Pentagon says Afghanistan will need U.S. support after the combat mission there is over in 2014. But for the U.S. troops to stay, there needs to be a bilatera

VOA双语新闻：盖茨敦促北约加大援助阿富汗努力

The day after President Obama approved the deployment of 17,000 additional U.S. troops for Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he will ask NATO allies to also send more troops to help provide security for the country's presidential and p

VOA双语新闻 - 盖茨称评估阿富汗战略为当务之急

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says a new strategy for fighting Islamic extremists in Afghanistan will be a high priority for the administration of President-elect Barack Obama. Gates, who has served as Defense secretary under President George B

VOA双语新闻：布朗赞扬英军在阿富汗获胜

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hailed the British offensive in Afghanistan's Helmand province a success. But that call is getting a mixed reception as the British public grows weary of the country's involvement there. 英国首相布朗赞扬英国在

VOA双语新闻：阿富汗警察制止自杀炸弹杀手发动

Police in Afghanistan are said to have killed a group of suicide bombers on Saturday just when they were about to hit targets in an eastern city bordering Pakistan. Four people, including two policemen are reported wounded. The stepped violence comes

VOA双语新闻：美调查空袭阿富汗致平民死伤事件

After receiving new evidence in recent days, the U.S. military is launching a higher level investigation of its air strike in Afghanistan two weeks ago, in which dozens of people were killed. The initial U.S. investigation said the strike had killed

VOA双语新闻：美国军方谋求新的阿富汗战略

The top U.S. military officer says he has ordered the development of a new, more comprehensive strategy for the war in Afghanistan, including a plan to shift U.S. forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, announced by President Bush on Tuesday. 一位美军高级