News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 51
U.S.: Pro-War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaeda Ties
- Inter Press Service
U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strategy of full-fledged counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, are claiming new intelligence assessments suggesting that al Qaeda would be allowed to return to Afghanistan in the event of a Taliban victory.
POLITICS-US: Obama Weighs Options as Afghan War Enters Ninth Year
- Inter Press Service
On the eighth anniversary of the launch of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama spent a good part of Wednesday deliberating with his top advisers on what is likely to be one of the most momentous decisions of his tenure: the future of U.S. involvement in that war.
MIGRATION: Remittances Also Drive Political Change
- Inter Press Service
The world's 200 million international migrants have traditionally been viewed in terms of dollars and cents: how much hard currency have they remitted to their home countries?
SOMALIA: President Calls for More Aid in U.S. Visit
- Inter Press Service
Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the leader of Somalia's beleaguered Transitional Federal Government (TFG), appealed here this week for increased U.S. and international security and humanitarian assistance for his efforts to defeat hard-line Islamist rebels and reconstruct his war-torn nation.
U.S.: Fears of Blame for Defeat Shadow Afghan War Meetings
- Inter Press Service
In a remarkable parallel with a similar turning point in the Vietnam War 44 years ago, President Barack Obama will preside over a series of meetings in the coming weeks that will determine whether the United States will proceed with an escalation of the Afghanistan War or adjust the strategy to reduce the U.S. military commitment there.
POLITICS: U.S. Afghan Campaign Plan Says Key Groups Back Taliban
- Inter Press Service
The leak of the 'initial assessment' of the war in Afghanistan by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander in the war, with its blunt warning that '[f]ailure to provide adequate resources' is likely to result in 'mission failure', was part of an obvious effort to force the hand of a reluctant President Barack Obama to agree to a significant increase in U.S. troops.
POLITICS-AFGHANISTAN: Battle for Balkh
- Inter Press Service
Events currently unfolding in Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh may be a preview for the future.
US-AFGHANISTAN: Obama Confronts Democratic Scepticism
- Inter Press Service
Growing scepticism among key Democratic lawmakers about the U.S. commitment to the war in Afghanistan is certain to pose one of the most difficult political challenges faced by President Barack Obama in his first year in office.
US-AFGHANISTAN: 'New' Bagram Rules More of the Same?
- Inter Press Service
Human rights activists and legal experts reacted swiftly Monday to disclosures that the U.S. government is planning to introduce new measures it claims would give inmates at Afghanistan's notorious Bagram prison more opportunities to challenge their detention.
RIGHTS-US: Some Guantanamo Prisoners Fight Release
- Inter Press Service
As 13 prisoners held at the U.S. naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba appeared set to finally win their freedom, others are asking their release to be deferred.
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