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Breaking News Thu, 16 Dec 2010
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, let, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, delivers a statement in the Brady Press Briefing room in the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review.
Afghanistan   Photos   War   Washington   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)		  Independent online (SA) 
Obama touts Afghan war progress
Fri 17 Dec 2010
Washington - President Barack Obama told war-weary Americans on Thursday that enough progress was being made in Afghanistan to begin withdrawing US troops in July, even as he faces growing doubts... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama holds conference call from the Situation Room
Afghan   Obama   Photos   US   wikipedia:Barack Obama		  Philadelphia Daily News 
Obama claims major progress as Afghan war rolls on
Thu 16 Dec 2010
BEN FELLER The Associated Press WASHINGTON - At the height of the war he escalated, President Barack Obama on Thursday declared major progress in turning back America's enemies in Afghanistan and... (photo: Public Domain / Pete Souza)
Barack Obama California visit  The Daily Mail  Thu 16 Dec 2010
Upbeat Obama: I'm still optimistic we can start pulling out of Afghanistan in July
President Barack Obama offered Americans an optimistic assessment of the Afghanistan war today, even as U.S. spy agencies and aid groups expressed doubts about the progress amid worsening violence.... (photo: Creative Commons / Steve Jurvetson)
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Chris Richelderfer, Executive Officer of Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment (Airborne), looks at possible enemy positions during Operation Saray Has July 19 near Forward Operating Base Naray, Afghanistan.  Al Jazeera  Thu 16 Dec 2010
Grim reports ahead of Afghan review
As Barack Obama, the US president, prepares to release a review of military strategy in Afghanistan, two classified US intelligence reports on the region have offered a pessimistic view of the chances... (photo: Creative Commons / Executioner)
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AFGHANISTAN: Humanitarian situation likely to worsen in 2011 - aid agencies IRINnews Wed 15 Dec 2010
AFGHANISTAN: Humanitarian situation likely to worsen in 2011 - aid agencies
KABUL, 15 December 2010 (IRIN) - The war in Afghanistan shows no sign of abating and conflict-related misery such as internal displacement, lack of access to essential... (photo: UN / Mark Garten)
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Israel is a victim of Turkey's transformation Ha'aretz Wed 15 Dec 2010
Israel is a victim of Turkey's transformation
Let's not fool ourselves. The Turkish firefighting planes did not douse the flames that continue to scorch Turkish-Israeli relations. Even if a formula is found that... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Israel   Mideast   Photos   Turkey   UN   Wikipedia: Ahmet Davutoğlu
TIANJIN/CHINA, 27SEPT08 - Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People's Republic of China, speaks at the Opening Plenary session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China 27 September 2008. Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)/Photo by Doug Kanter Al Jazeera Wed 15 Dec 2010
Chinese PM heads over to India
Wen Jiabao is setting out on a three-day visit to India to try boost trade and soothe tensions between the two Asian neighbours who between them house more than a third... (photo: Creative Commons / World Economic Forum)
China   Jiabao   Photos   Politics   wikipedia : Wen Jiabao
President Barack Obama speaking in Copenhagen to Olympics Committee Star Tribune Tue 14 Dec 2010
Richard Holbrooke, diplomat who honed skills in Vietnam, Bosnia and Afghanistan, dies at 69
WASHINGTON - Few U.S. diplomats had the breadth, depth or length of service of Richard Holbrooke, who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995... (photo: Public Domain / Chuck Kennedy)
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Barack Obama The Columbus Dispatch Tue 14 Dec 2010
Foreign-policy 'giant' tirelessly pursued peace
  Veteran U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, whose relentless prodding and deft maneuvering yielded the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended the war in the Balkans - a... (photo: Public Domain / Kelly)
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Barack Obama The Star Tue 14 Dec 2010
Holbrooke remembered as 'giant' of US diplomacy
WASHINGTON (AP): Few US diplomats had the breadth, depth or length of service of Richard Holbrooke, who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995... (photo: Public Domain / Kelly)
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NATO Expansion
Italian soldier with new insignia that symbolize European forces secure an area near EUFOR base during a ceremony of handing over peacekeeping duties from NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) to the EU's 7,000-strong EUFOR at Camp Butmir in Sarajevo, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. The European Union's biggest military operation began in Bosnia as the 25-nation-bloc takes over peacekeeping duties from NATO, nine years after the end of the war in the Balkan country. NATO plans to take on Russia revealed The Australian
Kremlin guards parade at Red Square during a ceremony of the Changing of the Guard in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. NATO has secret plan to defend Baltics - WikiLeaks The Star
U.S. soldiers stand guard near the site where Afghans, unseen, receive the food stuff donations provided by U.S. solders in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Many Afghans were still sleeping when President Barack Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to the war. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said NATO and U.S. forces would hand over responsibility for securing the country to the Afghan security forces "as rapidly as conditions allow." Obama said if conditions are right, U.S. troops could begin leaving Afghanistan in 18 months. Wikileaks reveals US Baltic plan Joy Online
NATO Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks at Moscow State Institute of International Relations in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. NATO has secret plan to defend Baltics: Wikileaks Zeenews
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzadeh, smiles upon arrival at the Afghanistan Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday March 31, 2009. A 72-nation conference on Afghanistan will launch a broader international commitment to the security of the region, including neighboring Pakistan, special U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said Monday. The hastily convened conference brings together all the countries bordering Afghanistan, including Iran, and all nations contributing troops to the NATO-led international force fighting Taliban insurgents. U.S. And NATO Allies Escalate Military Buildup Against Iran Scoop
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. The US-NATO March to War and the 21st Century "Great Game" Scoop
War on Terror
US tracking terror threats during holidays The Associated Press
Suicide bombing stirs Sweden's far-right The Associated Press
US concerned about terror attacks during holidays Yahoo Daily News
Sweden: Bomber may not have acted alone The Associated Press
Belgian Police officers stand guard in a subway station in Brussels, Friday Dec. 21, 2007, following the arrest of 14 suspected Islamic militants. The security level went a step higher against a possible terrorist attack as a plot to liberate an Al Qaeda suspect from jail was uncovered. Al Qaeda plans holiday attacks, officials say San Fransisco Chronicle
Police officers stand guard as unidentified officers enter the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. Swedish report assesses terrorist threat CNN
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