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U.S. losing war in Afghanistan, McCain says
Former GOP presidential nominee John McCain warned Wednesday that the United States is losing the war in Afghanistan.
Official: Mexican drug turf wars have led to surge in violence
No one, especially not one of Mexico’s top law enforcement officials, denies that killings by drug cartels have reached record levels. But Monte Alejandro Rubido Garcia, executive secretary for the National System for Public Safety, has an explanation
Drug violence spins Mexico toward ‘civil war’
A shootout in a border city that leaves five alleged drug traffickers sprawled dead on the street and seven police wounded. A police chief and his bodyguards gunned down outside his house in another border city. Four bridges into the United States shut down by protesters who want the military out of their towns and who officials say are backed by narcotraffickers.
Obama team works to define U.S. strategy in Afghanistan
When U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban after the 9/11 attacks, then-President Bush said the goal in Afghanistan was "to build a flourishing democracy as an alternative to a hateful ideology." Seven years, billions of dollars and hundreds of U.S. casualties later, the goals are more pragmatic and modest.