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19.11.09
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Modest increase smacks of muddling through

14.10.09
Gordon Brown is drawing a line in the sand, or rather the dust of Helmand, with the long expected announcement that he is to increase the number of British troops in Afghanistan - for a limited period... more

Obama holds 'war council' as pressure grows on US strategy

08.10.09
BARACK OBAMA has held his first "war council" meeting as he seeks to change the US strategy in Afghanistan.... more

Westminster prospers in a troubled world

23.09.09
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Fashion’s wild things just need a cool head

22.09.09
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America taps into expertise of a leader we put out to grass

18.09.09
As the world awaits the new allied strategy for Afghanistan, two British generals have sounded a surprising, if suitably cautious, note of optimism about the prospects for success.... more

Now Pakistan must strike while the iron is hot

24.08.09
Despite the mayhem in Afghanistan and the crucial presidential elections there last week, the real focus of the US and Britain in the region remains on Pakistan, which at this moment has an unprecedented opportunity to turn the tide against the Taliban and al Qaeda... more

Gordon Brown to meet top US military commander

21.08.09
US military leader General David Petraeus will meet Prime Minister Gordon Brown today, a Downing Street spokesman confirmed... more

Sending more troops now could see them return sooner

18.08.09
The outline of a new co-ordinated action plan for Afghanistan is emerging from the shadows - and it is likely to mean that British fighting troops leave the country much sooner than most have been predicting.... more

Miliband: we don't want to turn Afghanistan into colony

29.07.09
Foreign Secretary David Miliband failed to rule out need for additional troops in Afghanistan as he discussed need for joint military and political strategy to defeat Taliban... more

WORLD: Bomb kills 30 at Pakistan spy HQ

27.05.09
More than 30 people were killed and 300 injured in a car bomb attack which caused a huge explosion outside a spy HQ and police station in the Pakistani city of Lahore... more

This was a shambolic misadventure and we must learn from it

30.04.09
As the summer heat and dust rises over the Basra airbase the Union flag will be hauled down definitively, drawing to an end a six-year adventure from which our leaders, civil and military, must draw some urgent lessons. If they don't they are going to regret it - and pretty quickly. ... more

Obama: We don't need UK troops for Afghan push

24.03.09
The Americans do not want Britain to contribute more forces to the new surge against the Taliban in Afghanistan... more

Obama: I'm ready to start talks with Afghan Taliban

09.03.09
President Barack Obama has revealed that he is prepared to open talks with "moderate" elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan... more

More questions than answers in troubling conflict

13.11.08
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Obama talked the talk: now he owns problem of two wars

06.11.08
Barack Obama's election has been greeted with an outpouring of relief outside America as well as within it... more

Barack Obama gets down to work

05.11.08
Barack Obama is facing up to the reality of the world's toughest job... more

There is no better man to make troops fit for purpose

17.10.08
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The Golden Calf and the markets

16.09.08
THERE could not have been a starker contrast to the bleak mood elsewhere in London last night than at the Sotheby's auction where a selection of works by the artist Damien Hirst was sold for £70 million... more

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