'Tangible progress' in Afghanistan war: Pentagon

Nato-led forces are making "tangible progress" in the Afghanistan war, with Taliban insurgents under pressure and forced out of key southern strongholds, the Pentagon said Friday. Although the US military acknowledged battlefield gains over the past six months were tentative and "fragile," it painted a more positive picture than the Pentagon's previous reports to Congress.
The findings come at a crucial moment in the nine-year-old war as the United States prepares to begin a drawdown.