WASHINGTON - Former US defense secretary Robert Gates warned Sunday that deepening US military involvement in Syria's civil war would be a "mistake," warning the outcome would be unpredictable and messy.In an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation," Gates also said he saw "no good outcomes" in ...

SEOUL  - Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ casual style was the subject of criticism in some South Korean media Tuesday after he shook hands with President Park Geun-Hye, with one hand in his pocket.The picture of the meet-and-greet between Gates and Park Monday was splashed on the front ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Zara fashion house boss Amancio Ortega of Spain topped the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest billionaires Monday. Slim, who controls Latin American telecommunications power America Movil and retail/industrial ...

CHAGHI  – The Commissioner Quetta Division on Sunday inaugurated two-way trade-gates here at Pak-Iran border.The newly established gates with separate windows for traders leaving and entering Pakistan would greatly facilitate and save the time of the traders from both the countries. ...

Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft Company, has contacted parents of world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) holder Arfa Karim for her treatment.Amjad Karim Randhawa, the father of ailing Arfa, told media persons that Bill Gates telephoned him and expressed his wish to bear the ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday there will be no "rush for the exits" by the United States in Afghanistan, attempting to ease concerns after Germany warned that pulling too many Americans out of the 10-year war could risk NATO's strategy. President Barack Obama is expected to ...

Defence Secretary Robert Gates has brushed aside suggestions about Pakistan being responsible for the problems U.S. is facing in combating the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying there has been qualitative improvement in Islamabad-Washington ties over the last two years, with both sides deepening ...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the pace of a planned US troop drawdown in Afghanistan next year would be based mainly on conditions on the battlefield rather than "domestic politics" in the United States. Republican lawmakers, who won control of the House of Representatives in US legislative ...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned a court-ordered halt of a ban on openly gay military personnel could have "enormous consequences".A day after a judge halted the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, Mr Gates said he preferred that Congress, not a court, settle the issue.Under the policy, gay ...

On his first trip here in three years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates had a hard time making up his mind about the Taliban. During a series of speeches and interviews, Gates lumped all Taliban factions into the same category, calling them a "scourge" and a "cancer" that colludes with al-Qaeda ...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Friday described the Taliban as part of the "political fabric" of Afghanistan, but said any future role would depend on insurgents laying down their weapons. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is planning an ambitious Western-backed reconciliation package aimed at ...

Speaking on his E-4B plane en route from Andrew Air Force Base outside Washington to New Delhi, Mr Gates said that while "reconciliation and reintegration are critical to a resolution of the conflict in Afghanistan" this was unlikely to happen until Nato forces achieved greater military ...

It is an axiom of war that no battle plan ever survives the first encounter with the enemy, but the travel plans of the defense secretary last week barely survived encounters with his own troops and allies. No one in the entourage of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was calling the trip a metaphor ...

The West may have to bankroll Afghanistans security for 20 more years, President Karzai warned yesterday, as Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, promised not to abandon the war-ravaged country. Despite serious concerns over the credibility of Mr Karzais Government, particularly its ability to ...

Al-Qaeda sees using the Taliban in Pakistan and groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba as ways to destabilise Pakistan and even try to provoke a conflict between India and Pakistan that would inevitably destabilise Pakistan,US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday. Testifying before the House Armed ...

The United States will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea, Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Wednesday, saying its atomic and missile programmes pose a "lethal and destabilising" threat. "There should be no mistaking that we do not today, nor will we ever, accept a North Korea with ...

The Pentagon's chief is undertaking the tricky task of convincing allies to remain committed to the war in Afghanistan even as the Obama administration continues to debate whether to send more troops to fight. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates himself is undecided at least publicly on whether ...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the current review of U.S. and NATO strategy in Afghanistan should remain private, and that the military will do whatever the president orders. But in a speech in Washington, he also repeated his opposition to an approach advocated by some officials that would ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned North Korea on Saturday that the United States would respond quickly if moves by the communist government threaten America or its Asian allies. We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region ...

Pakistani Army lacks counter-insurgency capability needed to take on the Taliban and other extremists but Islamabad does not want any significant "American footprint" in the country to aid their efforts, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said. In an interview to CNN, Mr. Gates said the ...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is expected to announce on Monday the restructuring of several dozen major defense programs as part of the Obama administration's bid to shift military spending from preparations for large-scale war against traditional rivals to the counterinsurgency programs that ...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the US Army will effectively end within two years the unpopular practice of forcing soldiers to serve beyond their enlistment date, in a break with the former Bush administration. A stretched military had relied on the "stop-loss" provision to field troops for ...

Any political reconciliation with elements of the Afghan insurgency must be under terms set by the Kabul government, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on. In an interview with US television, Gates said that most insurgencies eventually are resolved through a political settlement. "I think ...

All major terrorist networks have a safe haven in Pakistan to operate creating a big "problem" to the US war against terror, Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said. "I think it's the safe haven on the Pakistani side of the border, not just for Al-Qaeda but for the Taliban for the Hakani network, ...

Amid preparations for a major U.S. troop build up in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates warns that the United States cannot become bogged down in the unrealistic goal of turning the country into an economically prosperous nation.

Seeking experience in wartime, President-elect Barack Obama intends to retain Defence Secretary Robert Gates as head of the Pentagon, if only temporarily, and has chosen a retired Marine general to be White House national security adviser, officials have said. Gates and retired Gen James Jones ...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that he would like to add significant US forces to the war in Afghanistan before national elections scheduled for next year, and that grim depictions of backsliding in the seven-year-old war are ''far too pessimistic.''Gates said the additional forces would give ...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that US could take unilateral actions in Pakistan according to the international laws. In a report published in a British daily today, Defence Secretary while responding to a question in Senate said US has every right to save the lives of it troops. ...

The Pentagon is taking a close look at its war strategy in Afghanistan in the face of rising violence from an increasingly complex insurgency, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. In Washington, a senior U.S. official said the State Department was conducting its own formal review expected to last ...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday said Pakistan's failure to put pressure on Taliban forces on the country's border with Afghanistan had fueled a rise in violence, but said Islamabad appeared to recognize the problem. A 40 percent spike in violence in east Afghanistan in the first five ...