WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has sent a handful of military officials back into northwestern Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level military cooperation despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Two U.S. officers have been sent in the last few weeks to the city of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, a U.S. official said, restoring after a months-long absence a U.S. military presence in an unstable region home to militants fueling violence across the border.

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) – The United States has sent a
handful of military officials back into northwestern Pakistan in
a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level
military cooperation despite a string of confrontations that
have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Two U.S. officers have been sent in the last few weeks to
the city of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, a
U.S. official said, restoring after a months-long absence a U.S.
military presence in an unstable region home to militants
fueling violence across the border.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has sent a handful of military officials back into northwestern Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level military cooperation despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Two U.S. officers have been sent in the last few weeks to the city of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, a U.S. official said, restoring after a months-long absence a U.S. military presence to an unstable region home to militants fueling violence across the border.

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) – The United States has sent a
handful of military officials back into northwestern Pakistan in
a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level
military cooperation despite a string of confrontations that
have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Two U.S. officers have been sent in the last few weeks to
the city of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, a
U.S. official said, restoring after a months-long absence a U.S.
military presence to an unstable region home to militants
fueling violence across the border.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has sent a handful of military trainers back into Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level cooperation against militants despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Fewer than 10 U.S. special operations soldiers have been sent to a training site near the border city of Peshawar, where they will instruct trainers from Pakistan’s Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency warfare, a U.S. official said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. authorities said a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden turned down an opportunity to leave his country and resettle overseas with his family, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday.

Dr. Shakil Afridi was jailed last week in Pakistan for 33 years for treason and the Obama administration has come under steady criticism for its handling of his case.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not.

Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney’s birth certificate released to Reuters by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certificate says, was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department is debating the wisdom of designating the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram a “foreign terrorist organization” despite entreaties from lawmakers and the Justice Department to do so.

U.S. diplomats are giving serious consideration to the arguments of a group of academics who sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week urging her department not to apply the “terrorist” label to the al Qaeda-linked group.

By Mark Hosenball

(Reuters) – A private detective working for Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers used a legally questionable tactic to obtain a hotel bill that a New York financier ran up at one of London’s swankest hotels, records reviewed by Reuters show.

A database of business records compiled by British government investigators shows that some time before his arrest in March 2003, private investigator Steve Whittamore, or someone working for him, misrepresented themselves to obtain from Claridge’s Hotel a copy of a bill belonging to Robert Agostinelli, an American who runs the Rhone Group private equity firm.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. admiral who oversaw the operation to kill Osama bin Laden denied on Thursday that he or his staff helped advise Hollywood film makers shooting a movie about last year’s secret raid to kill the al Qaeda leader.

A conservative legal group this week made public documents which it said showed how the Obama administration arranged special access to top officials for film makers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, the director and screenwriter of “The Hurt Locker,” a 2008 film about the Iraq war that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.