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In a speech Tuesday night, the president will announce he will boost the total number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to about 100,000. He also will try to convince a skeptical public that the U.S. still has the time — and the capability — to reverse the deterioration in Afghanistan.

President Obama will announce plans to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan when he gives a nationally televised address Tuesday night, administration officials told NPR.

After an exhaustive three-month strategic review, President Obama is launching his second significant strategic escalation of the U.S. military's involvement in Afghanistan.

The president will use Tuesday night's nationally televised speech on Afghanistan policy to reiterate "that this is not an open-ended commitment," a White House spokesman said Monday.

The decision to host Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as President Obama's first state visitor was designed as a deliberate signal of India's prominence in Washington.

The U.S. and Mexico continue to struggle over border issues like national security and pollution runoff. We discuss how interests on both sides of the border are working toward solving these problems.

No one knows exactly how many people died in the communal bloodletting that followed the partition of India in 1947. Estimates say it was more than 1 million.

President Obama said Friday that his decision about how many troops to send to Afghanistan will come soon and he is bent on "getting this right."

A special report from All Things Considered and NPR.org explores the challenges facing President Obama, America and Afghanistan in the troubled region and the options available to the U.S.

A year after President Barack Obama's election, the White House is enlisting "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, Forest Whitaker and others from Hollywood and beyond to help push the president's arts initiatives.