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05/19/2012 11:53 PM

Chicago braces for largest anti-NATO protest

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police trying to keep the peace during the NATO summit may face their biggest test on Sunday when thousands of demonstrators were expected to march near the site where leaders of the military alliance begin a two-day meeting. Previous protests in the runup to the summit Sunday and Monday have been lively but peaceful, resulting in fewer than two dozen arrests over the past six days, according to the Chicago Police Department. ...

05/19/2012 11:48 PM

Chicago braces for largest anti-NATO protest

05/19/2012 11:29 PM

Obama sees 'emerging consensus' on economic fix

Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the European continent and put investors worldwide on edge.

05/19/2012 11:03 PM

NATO leaders seek common path out of Afghanistan

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO leaders gather in Chicago on Sunday for a summit that will chart a path out of Afghanistan, as Western nations seek to fend off fissures in their alliance and ensure Afghanistan can hold a still-potent Taliban at bay when foreign troops withdraw. President Barack Obama hosts the summit in his home town, Chicago, a day after leaders of major industrialized nations tackled Europe's debt crisis, backing keeping Greece in the euro zone and vowing to take steps necessary to revitalize the world economy. ...

05/19/2012 09:55 PM

Afghanistan pullout to dominate NATO summit

More than 50 world leaders were gathering in Chicago for one of the biggest NATO summits in history Sunday aiming to draw up a unified exit strategy in Afghanistan after a decade of war.

05/19/2012 05:06 PM

UK special forces will stay in Afghanistan in anti-terror role

Up to 200 British troops will remain after the 2014 pull-out date, alongside 90 training officers

Up to 200 UK special forces servicemen are expected to remain in Afghanistan as a counter-terrorism unit after the formal pull-out of British forces in 2014. The news emerged ahead of the start of a two-day Nato summit dedicated to discussing the future stability of the country.

The proposed troops will be in addition to the 90 British officers due to stay behind to train senior Afghan officers in what has been described as "a Sandhurst in the sand". It is the first time there has been a recognition that some UK troops will remain in a combat role, even if the vast majority of UK forces will pull out on schedule.

A senior British official said: "British forces will not remain in a combat role in Afghanistan beyond 2014. The majority of forces that remain in Afghanistan will be in a training and mentoring role, for example the Afghan Officer National Training Academy. But I would not rule out a small number of forces playing a counter-terrorism role This would be in keeping with how we protect ourselves from the terrorism threat emanating from other parts of the world such as the Arabian Peninsula."

The training academy will also be staffed by Americans and Canadians with the intention of tutoring 1,300 Afghan National Army officers a year. Nato hopes Afghan security forces will have grown to 352,000 later this year, though their quality is questionable.

Almost all 130,000 combat troops in the international security force are due to leave by the end of 2014, but key decisions on the speed of the pull-out and the composition of any remaining troops will not be made until the middle of next year. The timetable allows Nato to respond to the possibility of Republican Mitt Romney winning the presidency and then imposing a rethink on the withdrawal timetable. Romney's foreign policy views have yet to be fleshed out.

Nato is hoping at its summit to announce it has assembled a $4bn (£2.6bn) a year programme to help the Afghan government post-2014 to improve the resilience of the Karzai administration against Taliban attacks. So far Britain, Germany Australia and Austria have committed funds. Nato's planning has been disrupted by the decision of the new French president, François Hollande, to announce he is removing all 3,500 French combat forces by the end of this year, but Britain is relieved he has said troops will remain longer both to remove equipment and train the Afghan army.

The French sector is due to be handed over shortly and in practice the French have not been conducting operations for some time in response to the killing of four French soldiers. It is also hoped that the Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, will tell the summit that he is lifting the six-month blockade against Nato supply trucks put in place after US air strikes killed 26 Pakistani troops in November. Nato has also pressed Islamabad to do more to prevent insurgents from taking advantage of the porous Afghan-Pakistani border region to take sanctuary inside Pakistan.

"We can't solve the problems in Afghanistan without the positive engagement of Pakistan," Nato's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said.

Patrick Wintour

World news: Afghanistan | guardian.co.uk

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05/19/2012 05:06 PM

UK special forces will stay in Afghanistan in anti-terror role

05/18/2012 12:27 PM

Obama welcomes Hollande as French president hints at Afghanistan compromise

05/17/2012 02:00 PM

Letters: UK targeted over arms sales and war

05/17/2012 01:18 PM

Barack Obama and François Hollande: new style, same substance

05/18/2012 10:00 PM

In Afghanistan, New Insurgent Group Emerges

The emergence of Mullah Dadullah Front, a new, more extreme insurgent faction of the Taliban, could trouble any efforts to restart the peace process.

05/18/2012 10:00 PM

Obama’s Journey to Reshape Afghan War

When President Obama joins other NATO leaders Sunday and Monday, the full extent of how his Afghan strategy has changed — from “war of necessity” to withdrawal on his terms — will be apparent.

05/17/2012 10:00 PM

The Kabul Hospital That Treats All Sides

There is one hospital in Kabul that treats anyone, from any side, no questions asked. The horrors of the war blow through its doors every day.

05/17/2012 10:00 PM

Afghanistan: Governor’s Office Attacked

Taliban insurgents killed at least seven people on Thursday in an attack on a provincial governor’s office, Afghan officials said.

05/17/2012 10:00 PM

Hollande Tells Obama Troop Pullout in Afghanistan Will Proceed

François Hollande, in his first meeting with President Obama as France’s president, restated his pledge to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

05/19/2012 09:09 PM

13 dead in suicide bombing Saturday; 2 U.S. troops killed Friday

KABUL, Afghanistan -- As NATO leaders prepared for a two-day summit in Chicago to plot their armed forces' exit from Afghanistan in less than two years, a suicide bomber on Saturday detonated his explosive vest at a police checkpoint in eastern Khost province, killing 10 civilians, including two children, and three Afghan policemen.

05/19/2012 04:55 PM

Afghan police: Suicide bombing kills 8 in east

The NATO meeting in Chicago is a chance for alliance leaders to proclaim solidarity and promise success.

05/19/2012 12:50 PM

Police: Suicide bomber attacks checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan, kills 8

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint Saturday in a volatile area of eastern Afghanistan, killing eight people, police said.

05/19/2012 08:41 AM

G8 Focuses On Greece; NATO, On Afghanistan

World leaders huddling in high-stakes, back-to-back summits this weekend will tackle the European economic crisis and the future of the Afghan war.

05/19/2012 05:36 AM

Afghanistan's Squandered Foreign Aid Has Young Businessmen Worried About Future

An elderly Afghan man passes by a postcard shop in Kabul, in May. Many young entrepreneurs in the country say they have less than two years -- until 2014 -- to get rich, before it's too late.

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