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In a prime-time speech at the U.S. Military Academy, President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Afghanistan on Tuesday night, but balanced the buildup with a pledge to begin withdrawing American forces in 18 months.

Here is the President's speech to the nation. From West Point, NY.

Air Force Techincal Sgt. Phllip M. Huaser from Salina, Kansas, assigned to the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device route clearance unit wears a silver Mjolnir, the Viking God Thor's hammer as he guards Highway One near the town of Maidan Shar, Wardak province, Afghanistan Monday Nov.

After months of what some critics called overexposure, President Obama has of late avoided questions from the White House press corps at large, closing the Oval Office to traditionally informal question-and-answer sessions with reporters and pulling back from the fast pace of news conferences he established when taking office.

NATO confirmed Tuesday that Canada's area of operations in south Afghanistan will expand slightly to include a northern suburb of Kandahar City known as Arghandab.

Expanding its unique destination product portfolio and building on its longstanding association with educational institutions and historic properties, Dolce Hotels and Resorts has become manager of The Thayer Hotel, a 149-room, historic hotel and meeting center on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Constructed in 1926 to ...

Activist filmmaker Michael Moore has penned an open letter to President Obama, cautioning the commander in chief against increasing troop levels in Afghanistan.

US President Obama has offered Pakistan an expanded strategic partnership, including additional military and economic cooperation, while warning with unusual bluntness that its use of insurgent groups to pursue policy goals "cannot continue." The offer, including an effort to help reduce tensions between Pakistan and India, was contained in a ...

The leading Senate Democrat on military matters says President Barack Obama's anticipated plan for significantly expanding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan must show how these reinforcements will help increase the size of the Afghan security forces.

The White House says Afghanistan and climate change will top President Barack Obama's agenda when he meets with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that slowed this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the Afghan government, senior U.S. officials said.

WEST POINT - Peace activists plan to hold a candlelight vigil outside the U.S. Military Academy on Tuesday shortly before President Barack Obama is expected to reveal that he will send more troops to Afghanistan.

U.S. General Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, visits with soldiers from Blackfoot Company of the Army's 1st Battalion 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment on American Thanksgiving.

President Obama enjoyed a quiet first Thanksgiving at the White House, telephoning members of the armed forces stationed around the world and spending time in the company of his family and friends.

President Barack Obama plans to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, including what the military says could be a roughly 50 percent increase in U.S. forces, in a national address Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy.

President Barack Obama plans to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, including what the military says could be a roughly 50 percent increase in U.S. forces, in a national address Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy.

President Barack Obama is expected to say that more U.S. forces are headed to Afghanistan when he addresses the nation Tuesday.

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India arrive for the State Arrival ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Nov.

President Barack Obama will lay out his strategy for the war in Afghanistan on Dec.

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