Hawking became deeply depressed.

also shifted A-10 attack planes and other aircraft from striking Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan as part of Mr.it has become harder to gauge such progress because the American-led military coalition has stopped releasing information such as the size of the Afghan army and rates of attrition in its ranks.

officials as a major overture from Kabul.The number of Afghan combat deaths also is withheld by the Afghan government.He defined victory in Afghanistan as a political settlement between the Taliban and the government.

that the Armys newly deployed brigade of advisers are expected to provide a great boost for the mission by operating more widely and closer to the front lines.said the Afghan security forces are getting better.

That was the first such restriction on coverage of a Pentagon chiefs visit in memory.

accompanied by several hundred support troops.who survived more than six decades with a motor neurone disease that doctors believed would kill him in his early 20s.

Hawking was diagnosed Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).He told the paper that our existence is down to pure chance.

thats it: I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.Despite his condition -- confined to a wheelchair