Taliban insurgents have got to be "very worried" over a US move to surge 30,000 troops into Afghanistan as they had hoped to force allied forces to retreat, a top Pentagon official said Monday. The insurgents will be facing a larger NATO-led force just as they come under mounting pressure in neighboring Pakistan, where the government has launched ...

The United States hopes the 7,000 additional troops promised by NATO allies will arrive in Afghanistan by the first half of 2010, a top defense official said on Monday. "In terms of the force flow, the goal is to get them all by, in the first half, if possible, of 2010," Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy ...

The Obama administration came under fire from U.S. lawmakers on Thursday for surprising Congress and American allies with its decision to drastically alter European missile defense plans. In the first congressional hearing on the move, Pentagon policy chief Michele Flournoy said that the administration ...