Reuters – The incoming Barack Obama administration will inherit an urgent crisis in Afghanistan and must increase U.S. and NATO troop levels there while enlarging the Afghan army, a U.S. think tank recommended on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The United States denied Thursday that the government of Kyrgyzstan to close the US military base at Bishkek airport which supports military operations in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – As of Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008, at least 558 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EST. Read the rest of this entry »
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