President Barack Obama was set to unveil on Wednesday his plan to start bringing U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, a first step toward ending a decade-long war that is increasingly unpopular in the United States.
Obama is expected to announce in a televised address at 8 p.m. EDT a plan that may include the withdrawal by year’s end of up to a third of the 30,000 ’surge’ troops he sent to Afghanistan in 2010, possibly followed by the removal of the rest of those extra forces [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama is in Ireland Monday to start a six-day, four-nation trip that will include high-level diplomacy about the revolts in the Middle East, discussions on global economic difficulties at a summit of the Group of 8 leading industrialized nations in France, and a celebration of his distant Irish roots.The bloody unrest in Libya – and the U.S. role in the NATO bombardment of troops loyal to its leader, Moammar Gadhafi – is likely to be at the forefront of Obama’s foreign policy talks with European leaders. But [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama is in Ireland Monday to start a six-day, four-nation trip that will include high-level diplomacy about the revolts in the Middle East, discussions on global economic difficulties at a summit of the Group of 8 leading industrialized nations in France, and a celebration of his distant Irish roots.The bloody unrest in Libya – and the U.S. role in the NATO bombardment of troops loyal to its leader, Moammar Gadhafi – is likely to be at the forefront of Obama’s foreign policy talks with European leaders. But [...]
