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Nancy Youssef

Intelligence report: Taliban still hope to rule Afghanistan

A new top-secret U.S. intelligence assessment warns that Taliban leaders haven't abandoned their goal of reclaiming power and reimposing harsh Islamic rule on Afghanistan, raising doubts about the success of any peace deal that the Obama administration tries to broker between Kabul and the insurgents. | 01/11/12 16:25:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay and Nancy A. Youssef

Obama outlines leaner military but gives few specifics

Even as the United States has withdrawn from Iraq, winds down its ground war in Afghanistan and prepares to make do with a leaner military budget, it faces an array of future threats and must still be prepared to fight several conflicts simultaneously, the Pentagon said Thursday in unveiling its latest defense strategy. | 01/05/12 19:03:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Iranian oil threat is mostly bluster, say observers

Amid an escalating war of words between the United States and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. and European officials expressed confidence that there was no imminent threat to the passageway through which some 40 percent of the world's seaborne oil travels daily. | 12/28/11 17:09:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef and Jonathan S. Landay

Bradley Manning hearing ends with no clear sign of harm done to U.S.

After seven days of testimony and the submission of more than 300,000 pages of documents, a key question remains unanswered in the case against Army Pfc. Bradley Manning: How exactly did his leak of hundreds of thousands of secret documents, logs and at least one video — which he passed to WikiLeaks — directly harm U.S. national security? | 12/22/11 18:44:50 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Bradley Manning makes court appearance in WikiLeaks case

A weeklong hearing to determine whether Army Pfc. Bradley Manning should face charges of illegally releasing thousands of classified U.S. military documents opened Friday with the defense questioning the presiding officer's objectivity. | 12/16/11 11:35:49 By - Nancy A. Youssef

U.S., Pakistan offer different versions of attack on border post

NATO officials said Afghan and U.S. troops operating inside Afghanistan early Saturday had been fired on from the Pakistani side of the border and had requested close air support to help defend themselves. But Pakistan's chief military spokesman said he did not believe that there had been any fire directed at the Americans from Pakistan and said he did not believe the U.S. attack could have been inadvertent. | 11/27/11 17:14:00 By - Saeed Shah and Nancy A. Youssef

'End is in sight' for Libya mission, NATO says

NATO defense ministers said Thursday that the alliance would end its six-month mission in Libya once deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi can no longer mount attacks against civilians — a point that they suggested was imminent even though Gadhafi has evaded capture. | 10/06/11 16:47:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

NATO chief says Libya mission doesn't hinge on Gadhafi's capture

Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi doesn't need to be captured or killed for NATO forces to end their mission in Libya, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday. | 10/05/11 15:41:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

In Egypt, Panetta urges end to emergency law

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged the head of Egypt's ruling military council on Tuesday to lift a controversial emergency law that U.S. defense officials said would "cast a shadow" over next month's crucial parliamentary elections. | 10/04/11 18:21:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Gadhafi family's escape to Algeria angers Libya's rebel council

Several members of fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's family crossed into Algeria on Monday, complicating the interim rebel authority's goal of prosecuting members of his inner circle for allegedly siphoning off the country's oil wealth and contributing to human rights violations. | 08/29/11 18:45:00 By - Hannah Allam and Nancy A. Youssef

Rebels overrun Gadhafi's compound; he calls retreat 'tactical'

Even as images of gleeful rebels overrunning Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's main military compound saturated television screens Tuesday, questions still loomed over Gadhafi's whereabouts, the status of pro-regime holdouts and NATO's role in the effort to secure the country. | 08/23/11 19:13:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef and Hannah Allam

Gadhafi son resurfaces as rebels fight to hold Tripoli

Libyan rebels battled Monday to hold Tripoli as Moammar Gadhafi's son and longtime heir apparent — whom the rebels claimed to have captured — made a surprise appearance outside a hotel and dismissed claims that his father had lost control of the country. | 08/22/11 22:50:00 By - Erika Bolstad, Nancy A. Youssef and Mohannad Sabry

A free Seif Gadhafi makes surprise visit to Tripoli hotel

That Seif al-Islam Gadhafi was in fact free — and not in their custody, as they'd bragged a day earlier — wasn't just a tremendous embarrassment for the rebels. It also raised serious questions about the credibility of the opposition government set to take control of post-Gadhafi Libya and, more urgently, about the rebels' claims to control nearly all of the capital. | 08/22/11 22:57:33 By - Erika Bolstad, Nancy A. Youssef and Mohannad Sabry

What turned the tide in rebels' march to Tripoli?

WASHINGTON — The Libyan rebels' seemingly effortless blitz into a poorly protected Tripoli was a culmination of several pivotal changes in a six-month conflict: They became better fighters, NATO forces became savvier allies and Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists realized that his regime was destined to collapse, NATO and U.S. military officials said Monday. | 08/22/11 22:07:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

What turned the tide in rebels' march to Tripoli?

The Libyan rebels' seemingly effortless blitz into a poorly protected Tripoli was a culmination of several pivotal changes in a six-month conflict: They became better fighters, NATO forces became savvier allies and Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists realized that his regime was destined to collapse, NATO and U.S. military officials said Monday. | 08/22/11 18:50:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

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