Obama Says Taking The Fight To The Taliban Is Paying Off -- The Guardian
US president papers over cracks at White House meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai
Barack Obama warned today that coalition forces in Afghanistan faced months of hard fighting, but said they had started to "reverse the momentum of the insurgency" by taking the fight to the Taliban.
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