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NATO to endorse Afghan strategy despite Karzai row (Reuters)

November 17th, 2010

Sgt. Ysidro Gonzalez, of Alice, Texas, from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines Alpha Company storms through the door of a compound after the door was blown open to search for bomb-making materials during a patrol that came under fire from Taliban insurgents in the town of Nabuk in Helmand province, in this October 26, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly/FilesReuters - NATO leaders will endorse a plan this week to bring troops home from Afghanistan gradually despite a dispute between President Hamid Karzai and the alliance’s commander that highlights…

Gates sees no gap with Karzai on Afghan war strategy (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

Sgt. Ysidro Gonzalez, of Alice, Texas, from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines Alpha Company storms through the door of a compound after the door was blown open to search for bomb-making materials during a patrol that came under fire from Taliban insurgents in the town of Nabuk in Helmand province, in this October 26, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly/FilesReuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday rejected suggestions that Afghan President Hamid Karzai was increasingly at odds with the United States over war strategy.


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Musharraf outlines his political strategy for Pakistan (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf addresses members of Britain's Pakistani community at the New Bingley Hall, in Birmingham in central England October 2, 2010. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleReuters - Exiled former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who plans to return home and head a new political party, on Tuesday brought the case for his political revival to some…

Afghan president criticizes anti-terror strategy (AP)

August 30th, 2010

In this Aug. 4, 2010 photo, during a rescue mission, a team from a U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Rescue Squadron scans for threats out the open door of a helicopter, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. Since the war began, the countryside surrounding Kandahar has been marked as the heartland of the Taliban, the insurgents' springboard to retake all of Afghanistan. Now, as U.S. and allied forces wrestle with diehard insurgents on booby-trapped fields and roads, the battle for Kandahar is being described as the decisive campaign, a linchpin of American strategy to win the nine-year-old conflict. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - President Hamid Karzai has again criticized coalition strategy in fighting Afghanistan’s stubborn insurgency, saying it has thus far produced nothing but civilian deaths.


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Mexican president open to change in drug strategy (AP)

August 11th, 2010

A soldier seizes marijuana plants at an illegal plantation found on the outskirts of Tecate, northern Mexico, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. About 9 different marijuana plantations, with some 50,000 plants, where found by the army while patrolling the area, officials said. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - President Felipe Calderon said Tuesday he is willing to change Mexico’s drug-war strategy and promised a new offensive against money laundering after hearing blistering criticism from opposition leaders.


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Pakistan tries new counterinsurgency strategy (AP)

July 10th, 2010

In this photo taken on June 30, 2010, young people from Pakistan's largest and deprived Baluchistan province who are recruited in the Pakistan army, demonstrate their skills in Ziarat, Pakistan. Army helped many civilian institutions to trained local people in different trades. (AP Photo/Sebastian Abbot)AP - With every bag of coal Madad Khan dumps into trucks at this mine reopened with the army’s help, Pakistan hopes it is moving closer to quelling a 60-year-old…

Afghan ex-spy boss calls peace strategy dangerous (AP)

June 9th, 2010

U.S. marines provide security during a government function to lay the foundations for a government administrative department building at Musa Qala in Helmand, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq Kandahari)AP - Afghanistan’s former intelligence chief is warning that President Hamid Karzai’s strategy of seeking reconciliation with the Taliban is dangerous for the country.


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