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Panetta Says U.S. to End Afghan Combat Role as Soon as 2013
www.nytimes.com-February 02, 2012
In a major milestone toward ending a decade of war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Wednesday that American forces would step back from a combat role there as early as mid-2013, more than a year before all American troops are scheduled to come home.
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U.S. and allies plan to give Afghanistan forces lead role in 2013
www.la.times.com-February 02, 2012
The U.S. and its military allies in Afghanistan intend to hand the lead combat role to Afghan forces next year, according to Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, shifting to a training and advising mission as they press ahead with their withdrawal after more than a decade of fighting.
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Panetta says Afghanistan role to shift from combat in 2013
www.usatoday.com-February 02, 2012
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday the coalition in Afghanistan hopes to have shifted its primary mission from combat to advising and training Afghan security forces next year.
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NATO report: Pakistan spy service still aiding Taliban in Afghan war
www.washingtonpost.com-February 01, 2012
A leaked NATO report includes claims by insurgents that the Taliban continues to work closely with Pakistan’s spy service and is poised to regain control of Afghanistan once Western forces withdraw, British news organizations reported.
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Panetta faces tough NATO meeting after budget shift
www.reuters.com-February 01, 2012
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta faces an unexpectedly challenging NATO meeting this week that could expose embarrassing rifts in the Western alliance just as President Barack Obama prepares to host a summit of allied leaders this spring in the middle of an election year.
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Afghan timeline will be addressed at NATO summit
http://news.yahoo.com-February 01, 2012
A White House official said Tuesday that alliance members attending an upcoming NATO summit in Chicago will be reminded that they've committed to pulling combat forces out of Afghanistan in 2014, despite a recent suggestion from France that the timeline be accelerated.
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U.S. military says Taliban set to retake power: report
www.reuters.com-February 01, 2012
The United States military has said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country, Britain's Times of London newspaper said Wednesday.
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France, Breaking With NATO, Will Speed Afghan Exit
www.nytimes.com-January 28, 2012
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Friday that France would break with its allies in NATO and accelerate the French withdrawal from Afghanistan, pulling back combat troops a year early, by the end of 2013. Mr. Sarkozy also said that he and Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, would ask the NATO alliance for a similar speedup of the transfer of primary security responsibilities to Afghan troops.
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France To Accelerate Afghan Withdrawal
www.washingtonpost.com-January 28, 2012
France announced Friday that it will pull its combat forces out of Afghanistan one year ahead of the scheduled NATO withdrawal and said it would urge the rest of the alliance to do the same.
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EU adopts oil embargo against Iran as part of sanctions over its nuclear program
www.washingtonpost.com-January 23, 2012
The European Union adopted an oil embargo Monday against Iran and a freeze of the assets of the country’s central bank, part of sanctions meant to pressure the country to resume talks on its nuclear program.
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France Threatens Afghan Pullout After Attack
http://online.wsj.com-January 21, 2012
France suspended its training and combat-support operations in Afghanistan and threatened to pull its troops from the country after an Afghan soldier opened fire on a group of French service members, killing four and seriously wounding eight.
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European Union Moves Closer To Imposing Tough Sanctions On Iran
www.nytimes.com-January 21, 2012
The European Union moved closer to imposing a phased oil embargo on Iran and some form of narrow sanctions against transactions with Iran’s central bank, European and French diplomats said on Friday.
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France halts training after Afghan soldier kills 4 French troops
www.washingtonpost.com-January 20, 2012
President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that France was suspending training operations in Afghanistan after four French soldiers were killed and more than a dozen wounded by a renegade Afghan soldier who opened fire on his trainers.
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Iceland makes fledgling recovery from its economic meltdown
www.washingtonpost.com-January 17, 2012
On the snowy streets of this capital city, the economic panic of 2008 has mostly faded. The trendy cafes along Laugavegur brim with customers. Restaurant menus feature $40 grilled minke whale and $60 racks of lamb, and hardly a table goes empty. Boozy youths line up to pack nightclubs that thump all night. It’s even okay now to joke about the crash, or kreppa, as it’s known: “We may not have cash, but we have ash!” reads one T-shirt with a picture of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano that erupted in 2010.
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Standard & Poor’s cuts credit ratings for France and eight other European nations
www.washingtonpost.com-January 14, 2012
Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of France and eight other European nations Friday, further weakening the region’s finances and potentially raising costs for governments at a time when they already face a debt crisis.
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