Washington, July 11: The United States and NATO may need to increase their goal for expanding Afghan forces significantly to better support President Obama's strategy for stabilizing the country, officials said on Friday. Full Article at Zee News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and NATO may need to increase their goal for expanding Afghan forces significantly to better support President Obama's strategy for stabilizing the country, officials said on Friday. Full Article at Boston Globe

An Afghan soldier stands in front of a truck which was damaged when a suicide car bomber struck outside the main NATO base at the airport in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, Monday, July 6, 2009. Full Article at CTV

Associated Press KABUL — Insurgent attacks killed three British soldiers in the southern Afghanistan region where thousands of U.S. Marines pushed forward with the American military’s biggest anti-Taliban offensive since the hard-line Islamist regime... Full Article at New Haven Register

If you would like to bookmark this article you will need to Login to your tulsaworld.com account close Published: 7/6/2009 2:26 AM Last Modified: 7/6/2009 3:54 AM KABUL — Insurgent attacks killed three British soldiers in the southern Afghanistan... Full Article at Tulsa World

The Helmand operation is the biggest undertaken by US marines since the Vietnam war [AFP] At least two Nato soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb that exploded in southern Afghanistan, Nato officials say. Full Article at Al Jazeera

The massive Marine assault launched Thursday in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province is intended to recapture an area that has been under Taliban control for the past five years - a step officials think is critical to showing Afghan civilians that... Full Article at KansasCity.com

In today's edition of Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch we see a mismatch between operations and the strategy laid out by the President (or at least an overemphasis on building up the Afghan government's credibility) and a complete lack of resources to... Full Article at Democracy Arsenal

WASHINGTON, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday 125 humanitarian, corporate and government agency leaders from the U.S. , Canada and Afghanistan gathered on Capitol Hill for the Afghan Symposium for Humanitarian and Leadership Engagement to... Full Article at Street Insider