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IN THE NEWS - Bush Announces New Steps to Aid Afghanistan By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, June 19, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. President Bush this week annou
Pakistan has promised to continue working with the United States in fighting terrorism and ending unrest in Afghanistan. But Pakistani officials say any political or military role for India in Afghanistan will be unacceptable. Prime Minister Shahid K
Michael Kitchen Afghanistan has approved a new election law, marking another step toward choosing its first elected government in two decades. The new regulations attempt to curb the influence of warl
The ultimate goal for the US and its allies is to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces. But before that can happen, Afghanistan's government must effectively combat rampant corruption within its ranks. Sean Maroney | Islamabad 17 Decem
Afghanistan's defense minister is in Washington, promoting his plan to establish a joint Afghan-Pakistani military force to patrol the dangerous border between the two countries. VOA's Kent Klein reports. Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak,
Afghanistan's foreign minister says a second round of talks is likely with former top officials of the fundamentalist Taliban. VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from Kabul that U.S. and NATO officials are giving conditional support to such disc
Sean Maroney | Islamabad 16 December 2009 Afghan security forces stand guard near a burnt fuel tanker in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, 04 Sep 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama has begun sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan in an effort to
Pakistan Eyes US Drawdown in Afghanistan US President Barack Obama Wednesday announced a drawdown of U.S. forces from Afghanistan next month, with a grim warning to Pakistan: terrorist safe havens will not be tolerated. In a nationally televised spee
US Troop Reduction to Test Afghans In his State of the Union address this week, the president put the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan into high gear ahead of next years withdrawal deadline. This spring our forces will move into a support role
By Al Pessin Kabul 19 December 2007 Afghanistan's defense minister is planning a training surge that would increase the number of Afghan soldiers available to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida by as much as 20 percent by the time the weather improves in
China and Afghanistan have vowed to advance their strategic cooperative partnership. Chinese President Xi Jinping met Afghan Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah in Beijing. Xi Jinping praised Abdullah's contributions to bilateral ties. He said
Afghanistan's defense minister on Sunday said the Pentagon has pledged to take steps to reduce civilian casualties from aerial attacks against insurgents in the country. A strategic review of the war will also be conducted as Afghanistan gets permis
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul will pay a two-day visit to Pakistan(巴基斯坦) on Jan. 27-28 for talks on bilateral and regional issues, focusing on anti-terror cooperation, an Afghan diplomatic said here
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad, Pakistan 03 August 2007 Pakistani and Afghan leaders will meet August 9-12 to discuss cross-border security issues in a landmark assembly or grand jirga. The four-day talks come as extremists continue to inflict heavy cas
2 US Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan The U.S. military says two American service members have died following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan. The military says the attack took place on Saturday but provided no other information about the in
US President Barack Obama says he and the secretary-general of NATO have agreed that Afghanistan will be the focus of the organization's 2014 summit. We had an opportunity to discuss not only the planning for the next year and a half, but also what k
By Sean Maroney Kabul 07 November 2009 A US Army Chinook helicopter lands on a hill in Kabul on November 7, 2009 The Afghan government says a NATO air strike has mistakenly killed seven members of the Afghan security forces in Badghis province. NATO
Afghanistan and the United States have finalized a strategic partnership agreement outlining their relationship following the 2014 withdrawal of Western combat troops from the country. A statement from Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office says the
British Prime Minister David Cameron told reporters Saturday he has no plans to pull his country's combat troops from Afghanistan before the current deadline expires. He also said Britain will continue to have a strong relationship with Kabul going f
British Prime Minister David Cameron has described the alleged killing of Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier as absolutely dreadful. Speaking Monday, Mr. Cameron said the incident will have an impact but that Britains aims in Afghanistan remain the s