NATO to embrace pivot to Afghanistan support role in 2013

20 May 2012, 4:31 pm

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Western leaders gathering this weekend to define their path out of Afghanistan will announce a pivot in the NATO mission next year, formally putting Afghan soldiers in charge of combat operations across the country, U.S. and NATO officials said on Sunday. The leaders are expected... Read More »

Americans in Afghanistan to fight through 2014, top commander says

20 May 2012, 3:38 pm

The commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan bluntly warned Sunday that American soldiers will face combat in that war-torn country right up to the time they leave, December 31, 2014. General John Allen told reporters not to buy into a "narrative" that the handover of security responsibilities to... Read More »

NATO shifts to help an elusive Afghanistan peace

20 May 2012, 3:21 pm

President Barack Obama and NATO allies declared Sunday that the end of the long and unpopular Afghanistan war is in sight even as they struggled to hold their fighting force together in the face of dwindling patience and shaky unity.... Read More »

Obama: NATO shifting to help peace in Afghanistan

20 May 2012, 1:43 pm

The NATO alliance that has fought for a decade in Afghanistan is helping that nation shift toward stability and peace, but there will be "hard days ahead," President Barack Obama said Sunday as alliance leaders insisted the fighting coalition will remain effective despite France's plans to yank ... Read More »

World behind strategy to exit Afghanistan: Obama

20 May 2012, 1:23 pm

US President Barack Obama opened a NATO summit Sunday saying the world backed his plan to end war in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai pledged his bloodied state would no longer be a "burden."... Read More »

Afghanistan's Karzai thanks Obama for ‘your taxpayers' money'

20 May 2012, 11:48 am

Looking to a day when "the Afghan war as we understand it is over," President Barack Obama met Sunday with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to discuss NATO's withdrawal from that strife-torn country by the end of 2014.Obama, who has put the draw-down of combat troops at the heart of his fo... Read More »

NATO chief insists no rush to exits in Afghanistan

20 May 2012, 10:07 am

The United States and NATO leaders insist the Afghanistan fighting coalition will remain whole despite France's plans to yank combat troops out early, but leaders wary of plummeting public support for the war are using an alliance summit Sunday to show they want to move quickly away from the fro... Read More »

World leaders set to tackle Afghanistan's future

20 May 2012, 9:50 am

The United States and NATO leaders are insisting the Afghanistan fighting coalition will remain whole despite France's plans to yank combat troops out early, but leaders weary of plummeting public support for the war are also using an alliance summit Sunday to show they want to move quickly away... Read More »

Taliban: NATO nations should leave Afghanistan now

20 May 2012, 6:33 am

The Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year.... Read More »

NATO’s Paper Mache Agenda for Afghanistan

20 May 2012, 12:59 am

The Afghanistan-related measures NATO members are expected to adopt in Chicago are a mix of concrete international agreements and paper promises that European capitals may or may not uphold.... Read More »