Asserting that the security breach had endangered lives and damaged the ability of others to trust the United States government to protect their secrets, US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday denounced the disclosure this week of 75,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war by the Web site WikiLeaks. The documents were “a mountain [...]
On Sunday night, the White House lashed out at a stunning leak of secret documents that suggest Americans had been misled about the war in Afghanistan. In a statement, National Security Adviser James Jones said, “The United States strongly condemns the disclosure…which could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk and threaten [...]
A ground and air search is being undertaken by coalition forces in Afghanistan for two US service members missing since July 23 who may have been captured by the Taliban. According to a statement on NATO’s website that didn’t identify their nationality, the two left a compound in the capital, Kabul, in a vehicle two [...]
On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed the US and its allies will stand by Afghanistan even as fears are growing about the course of the nearly nine-year-old war and the Obama administration plans to begin withdrawing American troops from the country next year. Amid the rising death toll of foreign troops [...]
The Kabul Conference set to start Tuesday may hint at something that the United States and other sponsors of Afghanistan’s government have been dancing around for some time: A target date for ending what is already America’s longest running foreign war. A British newspaper obtained a leaked draft of the communiqué that US Secretary of [...]
Firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal would disrupt progress in the war and could jeopardize a pivotal security operation under way in Taliban strongholds in the south, Afghan officials said Wednesday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed his confidence in the top NATO commander in Afghanistan at the end of a one-hour video conference Tuesday night with President [...]
On Thursday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he spoke to President Barack Obama about his half-brother’s role in southern Afghanistan and that he believed the issue was now resolved. US officials have voiced concern over the activities of Ahmad Wali Karzai, a powerful official with broad business ties in Kandahar, the southern city where US [...]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is wrapping up a four-day visit to Washington with a televised give-and-take with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Obama administration has done its best to repair strained relations with the Afghan leader, its partner in the war against militants in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Karzai will continue to seek to convince [...]
