AMBASSAOR ELECTS RYAN CROCKER AND WILLIAM WOOD PARTICIPATE IN THEIR CONFIRMATION HEARING
Ambassador elect to Iraq Ryan Crocker testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination, in Washington on February 15, 2007. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and other countries, was charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run in Spokane, Wash., police said.
Richard Olson, nominated as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, says taking up the issue of the Haqqani network would be his most urgent task in his new job.
U.S. President Barack Obama named two senior diplomats as ambassadors to Pakistan and Afghanistan, both difficult assignments in the current environment.
U.S. President Obama, speaking Tuesday in Afghanistan in a televised address to Americans, said Afghans will be "fully responsible" for their security by 2014.
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan blamed the Haqqani Network for this week's attacks in Kabul and said Thursday the group is also a threat to Pakistan.
A series of attacks in Afghanistan this week was intended to show enemies that they can hit secure locations, a spokesman for Taliban insurgents said.
The commander of Western forces in Afghanistan said officials were analyzing the significance of Sunday's blunted Taliban raid on Kabul.
A fundamental flaw in geostrategic judgment is the erroneous belief that Taliban and al-Qaida are one and the same; they aren’t.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday officials were deceived by "good messages" from the extremists who killed Burhanuddin Rabbani in a suicide attack.
The people of Iraqi Kurdistan are pleased with emerging developments in the new Iraq, Kurdish leaders told departing American envoy Ryan Crocker.
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