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First US Cuts in Afghanistan Likely to Include Combat Forces
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The initial U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan in July probably will include combat as well as non-combat forces, the top U.S. commander there told a House committee on Wednesday. Army Gen. David Petraeus mentioned no numbers, nor did he identify which combat units might be pulled out to begin what President Barack Obama has called a responsible winding down of the war by 2014. Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, led off questioning of Petraeus by asking whether combat troops would be included in the July ...
NATO Disputes Claims It Killed 64 Afghan Civilians
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Tribal elders in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan claimed Sunday that NATO forces killed 64 civilians in air and ground strikes over the past four days. The international coalition denied the claim, saying video showed troops targeting and killing dozens of insurgents. Coalition and Afghan officials plan to go to the Ghazi Abad district of Kunbar province, a hotbed of the insurgency, on Monday to investigate. Civilian casualties have been a constant source of friction between coalition troops and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Tribal elders told the provincial ...
With Dim Prospects for Negotiations, Afghan War Likely to Drag On
By David Wood - Politics DailyIn Afghanistan, the Taliban insurgents are tiring after nine years of war and taking heavy casualties; at home, President Obama faces rising political pressure to withdraw the troops and scale back the unpopular U.S. commitment, now costing over $5 billion and over 60 American battle dead a month. So why not agree to end it? After all, a prospective deal looks simple: The United States wants the Taliban to renounce al Qaeda; the Taliban wants the United States to leave Afghanistan. Not simple, as President Obama is finding out. On the contrary, according to senior military and diplomatic ...
NATO Airstrike Mistakenly Kills 5 Afghan Troops
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 7) -- Five Afghan soldiers were mistakenly killed and two others wounded this morning in a NATO airstrike that an Afghan government spokesman pointedly called "not the first case" of friendly fire in Afghanistan. Three American deaths were also reported in a separate roadside bombing. NATO acknowledged the Afghan deaths and apologized, with a spokesman saying the mistake was because of a "coordination issue." "We were obviously not absolutely clear whether there were Afghan national security forces in the area," NATO spokesman Josef Blotz told a news conference. The Afghan soldiers ...
Petraeus: More 'Tough Fighting' in Afghanistan for US
By not in system - AOL News(June 29) -- The United States has spent $27 billion on Afghan soldiers and police, but the army lacks "combat power" and cannot hold territory against Taliban insurgents, Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Tuesday. The battle performance of Afghan security forces is critical if U.S. troops can begin withdrawing next July, as President Obama has proposed. Petraeus, appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing as new commander in the Afghan war, said trying to get Afghans ready to fight is "hugely important and hugely challenging -- akin to building an ...
Gen. Petraeus: US in Afghanistan for Long Haul
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 29) -- Gen. David Petraeus cautiously endorsed President Barack Obama's exit plan for the Afghan war on Tuesday, leaving himself room to recommend changes or delays as he interviewed for the job of commander of the stalemated war. Petraeus, the emergency replacement following the sacking of the previous commander, told a Senate panel that Obama wants him to provide unvarnished military advice. Petraeus has previously said that he would recommend putting off any large-scale withdrawal if security conditions in Afghanistan can't sustain it. Obama has announced that some U.S. ...
Petraeus Prepared to 'Modify Rules of Engagement' in Afghanistan
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailySince General David Petraeus was abruptly appointed to take over the War in Afghanistan on Wednesday, speculation has swirled around how his approach to the increasingly dire conflict would differ from that of his predecessor, disgraced former commander General Stanley McChrystal. Today, we have an answer. An anonymous military source "close to Petraeus" says that "one of the first things the general will do when he takes over in Afghanistan is to modify the controversial rules of engagement to make it easier for U.S. troops to engage in combat with the enemy," reports Fox News. If ...
June Marks NATO's Deadliest Month of Afghan War
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(June 24) -- June has become the deadliest month for foreign forces in the entire nine-year war in Afghanistan. The number of troop deaths so far this month crossed the grim milestone quietly, overshadowed by President Barack Obama's acceptance of the top U.S. commander's resignation for his comments in a magazine profile in which he and his aides criticize the Obama administration and poke fun at several civilian officials overseeing the war. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was replaced Wednesday by Gen. David Petraeus, who has overseen the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as head of the U.S. Central ...
Petraeus Takes Command as Afghan War Problems Escalate
By not in system - AOL News(June 23) -- For the second time in his career, Gen. David Petraeus has been handed control of a war that seems unwinnable. Within hours of relieving Gen. Stanley McChrystal Wednesday, President Obama named Petraeus, who was the top commander in Iraq at that war's lowest ebb, as the new top commander in Afghanistan. ...
Exit McChrystal, Enter Petraeus: 10 Facts About the New Afghanistan Commander
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyNow that President Obama has appointed Gen. David Petraeus to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal, it's time to take a look at the new four-star general in charge of the war in Afghanistan. Petraeus, 57, is currently the commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for the military in the Middle East and Central Asia, and as such he was McChrystal's direct boss. But he brings more than that to the post: 1. He wrote the Army's new counterinsurgency manual. In 2005, Petraeus was the head of the Army's Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. With a team of ...
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