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New Zealand to pull Afghanistan troops next year
New Zealand says it will withdraw its small contingent of troops from Afghanistan a year earlier than planned. Prime Minister John Key told reporters ...
World leaders confront flagging Afghan war
It was what President Barack Obama called a "war of necessity," a conflict thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks. As NATO's mission here winds down ...
France's Hollande sticking to early Afghan pullout
In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by ...
House OKs continued war in Afghanistan
The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are ...
Obama requesting help to pay for Afghan army
Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the United States and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country after 130,000 ...
THE RACE: Politics a factor in weekend summits
President Barack Obama is taking a break from active campaigning for a few days to host back-to-back world summits. Yet U.S. presidential politics ...
Hollande: A kinder, gentler France ahead?
If polls are to be believed, leftist Francois Hollande will soon be French president, and will tell Barack Obama next month that France is speeding ...
Georgia wants Russia out of separatist regions
The president of Georgia said Thursday he's willing to resign if Russia withdraws its troops from two separatist Georgian regions that split off in ...
Sudan says it chased out South Sudan's army
Sudan's U.N. envoy is denying South Sudan's announcement of a withdrawal from the oil-rich town of Heglig, saying the Sudanese army routed the South's ...
UN chief urges 2 Sudans to step back from war
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Sudan and South Sudan on Thursday to step back from the brink of war and return to the negotiating table.
Russia slams NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan
Russia's foreign minister sharply criticized NATO's plan to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan by 2014, saying Thursday that coalition troops should ...
NATO ministers to mull Afghan strategy
NATO ministers will discuss strategy for the military withdrawal from Afghanistan at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, even as violence inside the ...
US prepares for last major Afghan offensive
For Taliban militants and U.S. strategists alike, all roads in this impoverished country of mountain passes, arid deserts and nearly impassable goat ...
Diplomats: Annan urges Syria troop withdrawal
International envoy Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday he was "encouraged" at the start of a fragile cease-fire in Syria but said ...
South Sudan says won't withdraw troops
South Sudan's president said Thursday that the nation will not withdraw its troops that this week entered a disputed border region with Sudan.
South Sudan troops move into disputed oil town
After a day of fierce fighting, troops from South Sudan captured an oil-rich border town that is claimed by Sudan, whose troops withdrew under the ...
Annan: No preconditions for end to Syria violence
Syrian troops shelled and raided opposition strongholds nationwide on Tuesday, activists said, prompting an urgent appeal by international envoy Kofi ...
Syria scuttles truce plan with new demands
A U.N.-brokered plan to stop the bloodshed in Syria effectively collapsed Sunday after President Bashar Assad's government raised new, last-minute ...
US warns Syria it can't deceive world over pullout
The U.S. warned Syria it won't be able to deceive the world about compliance with a cease-fire that is just days away, as regime forces pounded more ...
UN chief warns Syria crisis is getting worse
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday the crisis in Syria is getting worse and claiming more lives every day even though President Bashar ...
Syria forces assault rebellious towns before truce
Syrian artillery pounded the rebellious city of Homs and tanks and troops stormed towns in the north and south on Wednesday, deepening doubts that ...
APNewsBreak: Syrian troops start pullout
Syrian troops began pulling out Tuesday from some calm cities and headed back to their bases a week ahead of a deadline to implement an international ...
Analysis: Syria's Assad could exploit diplomacy
Facing a U.N.-brokered deadline to end the bloodshed in Syria, President Bashar Assad is likely to try to manipulate the terms of the plan to buy more ...
Syria agrees to April 10 troop pullout from cities
Syria told international envoy Kofi Annan that its military will withdraw troops and heavy weapons from populated areas by April 10, in what could be ...
200 French troops leave Afghanistan
Two hundred French troops said goodbye to the war in Afghanistan on Wednesday as part of France's accelerated pullout from the country. In January, ...