AP source: Vanguard of Obama’s 21,000 Afghan surge have arrived in Afghanistan

September 30th, 2009 AP source: Obama makes no decisions on Afghan warWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has heard from his top national security officials about their next step forward with Afghanistan but has not made any decisions. A senior administration official says Obama spent three hours in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday and pushed his team for specifics and details.

September 10th, 2009 Vanguard boosts '09 outlook to include acquisitionHOUSTON — Oil and natural gas company Vanguard Natural Resources LLC on Thursday raised its full-year profit outlook to reflect the impact of newly acquired natural gas and oil properties. In August the company purchased the properties from an affiliate of Lewis Energy Group for about $52.25 million in cash.

August 26th, 2009 Obamas visit top adviser's home on vacationOAK BLUFFS, Mass. — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are spending the evening at White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett's house around dinnertime.

August 26th, 2009 Vanguard gets $5.9M in proceeds from offeringHOUSTON — Oil and natural gas company Vanguard Natural Resources LLC said Wednesday it received $5.9 million in proceeds from a recent public offering. Underwriters bought an additional 432,800 common units in a public offering.

August 26th, 2009 Obamas visit top adviser's home, then go to dinnerOAK BLUFFS, Mass. — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett's house and then accompanied her to a nearby restaurant.

August 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A US general has recommended the release of around 400 prisoners from Pentagon's Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan, the Online news agency reported Saturday. Major General Doug Stone had recently reviewed the facility at Bagram, which has been a source of growing public anger in Afghanistan.

July 2nd, 2009 'Genocide-free' proposal rejected at VanguardBOSTON — Shareholders of Vanguard Group have rejected an activist proposal that would have required stronger screening of investments that may be linked to genocide. A proposal backed by the group Investors Against Genocide fell far short of majority support at a shareholders meeting the mutual fund company held Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz.

June 10th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the US move to send 21,000 extra troops to war-ravaged Afghanistan could have serious implications for his country. "Pakistan has talked through political and military ways at all levels to the stakeholders that transferring the problem from Afghanistan to Pakistan will not help resolve the issue," he told reporters in Islamabad on Tuesday.

May 18th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran has postponed a security meeting scheduled for Tuesday with the presidents of neighbours Afghanistan and Pakistan, ISNA news agency reported Sunday. The presidential office Saturday had announced that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was to host his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts, Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari respectively, on Tuesday in Tehran.

May 12th, 2009 89 Afghan girls sick in alleged school poisoningMUHMUD RAQI, Afghanistan — Officials and doctors say 89 Afghan schoolgirls have been hospitalized in the third case of alleged gas poisoning in eastern Afghanistan in less than three weeks. Dr. Aziz Agha says scores of students have been admitted with symptoms such as headaches, vomiting and shivering.

May 10th, 2009 Jones: Airstrikes remain part of Afghan strategyWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's national security adviser says the U.S. is not going to end airstrikes in Afghanistan.

May 8th, 2009 Gates: Afghan-bound US troops outpacing equipmentCAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S. troops are being rushed to Afghanistan without the equipment they will need to fight an emboldened Taliban, U.S.

April 29th, 2009 Taliban threatens wave of attacks against US surgeKABUL — The Taliban vowed to launch a wave of attacks Thursday in a spring offensive as a surge of American troops arrives in Afghanistan, a threat delivered on the same day that 42 militants were reported killed in clashes. Taliban leaders regularly boast of impending attacks that never materialize — such as proclaiming that hundreds or thousands of suicide bombers were waiting to attack around the country — but the new threat announced Wednesday by a top-tier commander could signal a more aggressive stance.

April 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The new Afghan policy of the US will remain ineffective and further multiply problems for the NATO forces until a solution to the war was found through political means, governor of Pakistan's restive North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) has said. NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani urged American and western powers fighting Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to address issues through political means.

February 4th, 2009 KABUL - Afghanistan's Defence Minister General Abdul Rahim Wardak has said that 60 percent of the Taliban militants were foreigners, an Afghan newspaper reported Thursday. 'Over 60 percent of anti-government militants are foreign nationals,' daily Arman-e-Millie quoted the minister as saying.