Afghan

Even if NATO rushes to the exits, Afghan collapse is not inevitable

25 May 2012

As French President Hollande promises troop withdrawal this year, and the rest of NATO plans to exit by 2014, Afghanistan's best hope may be the disunity and ill-discipline of the Taliban.

Hollande defends early Afghan pullout

25 May 2012

KABUL (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Friday to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year, defending his plan for their early exit after meeting his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai. Hollande was strongly criticized at a NATO summit last weekend for accelerating France's withdrawal of its roughly 3,400 troops in ...

French president says Afghan mission completed

25 May 2012

France's new president said on Friday that his country's troops had carried out their mission in Afghanistan and that it was time for them to leave, an early pullout that will be coordinated with the United States and other allies.