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CAMP DAVID cheap nike air max 97 , United States, March 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday that the Pentagon is seeking funding to ensure Afghan troops are maintained at its targeted peak level through 2017 as a move to show U.S. commitment to strategic partnership with Afghanistan.


"As one part of that commitment, today, we can announce that the Defense Department intends to seek funding for Afghan forces to sustain an end-strength of 352,000 personnel through 2017 cheap nike air max 270 womens ," said Carter at a joint press conference with Secretary of State John Kerry, visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.


Carter said Afghan and coalition military commanders had jointly recommended the force size and acknowledged that the cost for maintaining the force size would be "significant" for both Afghanistan and international partners.


Currently, the level of Afghan forces stood at around 330,000. Carter said pinning down the targeted number of local forces is crucial for the country's stability.


There are 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan to provide training and other support. The Obama administration plans to reduce that number to around 5 cheap nike air max 270 mens ,500 by the end of 2015 and withdraw all troops by the end of President Barack Obama's presidency a year later.


However, Ghani has made clear on many occasions that such a timeline would jeopardize the security situation on the ground. Prior to his U.S. visit, he had also repeatedly told U.S. media that the extremist group Islamic State was targeting Afghanistan and gaining influence within the nation.


The White House on Monday reiterated its stance on Obama's plan to withdraw troops by the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017 but left open the possibility of leaving about 1,000 to 1,500 troops in Afghanistan for protection purpose.


"The president does envision a scenario where the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan by early 2017 reflects the need to protect the substantial diplomatic presence that the United States will maintain in Afghanistan cheap nike air max 270 ," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.


Ghani was expected to ask Obama in their meeting on Tuesday to reconsider the withdrawal schedule.


Noting that the decision on the number of U.S. troops to be left in Afghanistan beyond 2016 would be made solely by Obama, Ghani stressed that strategic relations exist between the two nations in terms of national security.H "We are bound by common interests and will act together to ensure both the safety of the United States and the safety of Afghanistan," he said.


Ghani, who started his presidency last September, was currently on a five-day state visit to the United States to lay the groundwork for new relations between the two countries after more than a decade of strained ties under the leadership of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai.


Describing Monday's meeting at Camp David as "productive cheap nike air vapormax womens ," Kerry said Washington and Kabul shared "a commitment to security and peace and a desire to promote prosperity and social progress."


KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Coach Cosmin Olaroiu insists he is fully focused on guiding Al Ahli of the United Arab Emirates to a famous AFC Champions League victory against Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal despite his "special relationship" with his former employers ahead of next week's semifinal first leg at King Fahd International Stadium.


Goals from Brazilian Rodrigo Lima and captain Ahmed Khalil saw Al Ahli defeat Iran's Naft Tehran 3-1 on aggregate in the quarter-finals to mark their first appearance in the semifinals.


And after Al Hilal defeated Qatar's Lekhwiya 6-3 on aggregate in their quarter-final, former Saudi Arabia couch Olaroiu will now face the side he guided to the Saudi league title in 2008.


"I know them, they know me. We have a special relationship, but the game is the game cheap nike air vapormax mens ," Romanian Olaroiu told the Asian Football Confederation website.


Olaroiu took over at Al Ahli in July 2013 after spells at Al Ain of the UAE and in Qatar with Al Sadd that followed his departure from Al Hilal in 2009.


"They have the pressure of the public and they have a lot of supporters. When you play in the league or the Champions League, psychology is important and, it is just as important as the physical side and it's part of our job and we have to take this into consideration," Olaroiu said to the website.


"At this point in the competition nobody is superior to anybody. Whoever performs better in the match will qualify for the final."


LIMA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- World Boxing Association (WBA) world champion Kina Malpartida of Peru announced her retirement on Tuesday.


"It is better to retire when one is on top. A boxer has to be in her maximum level to fight because the physical and mental wear is tremendous cheap nike air vapormax ," Malpartida, super featherweight (130 lb or 60 kg), told a local radio station in a sports show.


"It was very difficult for me to take the decision. The doors are open, maybe in the future I will fight again, but I am trying to seek other life choices cheap nike air vapormax moc 2 ," she said.


After winning the world championship by defeating U.S. Maureen Shea by technical knock out (TKO), in a fight held in Feb. 2009 in Madison Square Garden, the Peruvian boxer successfully defended her title for four more times.


Malpartida, 33, has competed in 17 fights cheap air huarache just do it , from which she won 14, 10 by unanimous decision and four by TKO, while she was defeated three times, two by unanimous decision and one by TKO.


Malpartida is now designing clothes and managing her own casual and sports cloth trademark. She also takes part in a reality show in the Peruvian television.


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SYDNEY, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at the University of Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have begun to work with athletes in order to uncover the medical mysteries that surround concussion in elite sport cheap air presto just do it , it has been announ.