Bush Cites Progress in Pakistan, Afghanistan
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President Bush highlighted anti-terrorism efforts of Afghanistan and Pakistan yesterday, calling the nations invaluable allies despite a surge of violence in southern Afghanistan that has provoked deep suspicions about their ability -- and appetite -- to battle extremists.
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Presidents George W. Bush of the United States and Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan met Saturday to emphasize that ties between their nations remain strong, despite Islamabad&#39;s decision to scale back its search for Osama bin Laden.
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President Bush on Saturday defended Pakistan's cooperation in the hunt for Osama bin Laden despite the inability of U.S. and Pakistani troops to find the al-Qaida leader who, Bush once declared, was wanted dead or alive.
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President Bush, facing election-year   criticism that the Iraq war is a distraction from efforts to   stabilize Afghanistan, insisted on Friday allied forces were   making headway against a resurgent Taliban.
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The Bush administration defended its  achievements in Afghanistan on Thursday as both Democratic and  Republican lawmakers contrasted official accounts of progress  with new studies warning of looming failure.
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President Bush appealed to the bickering presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday to put aside their differences and "strategize together" over dinner on ways to prevail in defeating the common enemy of terrorism.
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NEW YORK - President Bush thanked Pakistan&#39;s leader Wednesday for conducting aggressive military strikes against Taliban and al-Qaida strongholds, but the Pakistani warned that global terrorism can&#39;t be defeated by force alone.
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President Bush invited the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the White House for dinner and a little talking-to.
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President Bush said Saturday that the United States must continue fighting in Iraq and support Pakistan's battle against al-Qaida and other extremists entrenched along its rugged frontier.
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President George W. Bush will seek   to ease tensions between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and   Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday, as a Taliban   resurgence is pressuring all three governments.
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President Bush offered no criticism Saturday of Pakistan&#39;s role in the still-unsuccessful hunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, even though Pakistan&#39;s army is pulling back from the region where the terrorist mastermind is believed
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President Bush and Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf held talks Friday on the strategy of the war on terrorism, just days after Bush said he would send U.S. troops into Pakistan to capture Osama bin Laden if he received good intelligence on the al Qaeda leader's location.
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The Bush administration proclaimed significant progress in the war on terror Tuesday but said the enemy has adjusted to U.S. defenses and that "America is safer but we are not yet safe."
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President Bush welcomed the feuding leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the White House last night for an unusual round of personal diplomacy aimed at forging better relations between two key partners in U.S. efforts to hunt down members of al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists.
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President Bush vowed yesterday to make a sustained new military and political effort to beat back resurgent Taliban forces as he turned his attention back to Afghanistan and a conflict that has been overshadowed for the past couple of years by the larger war in Iraq.
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President George W. Bush said on Thursday the United States would keep higher troop levels in Afghanistan in anticipation of fierce fighting against the Taliban this spring after the most violent year since the hard-line group was ousted.
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President Bush met yesterday with Afghanistan President Harmid  Karzai and last Friday with Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Tonight, joined by Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, he will bring both men into the old family dining room of the White House for a...