More than 1,000 American troops have been wounded in battle over the past three months in Afghanistan, accounting for one-fourth of all those injured ...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
KABUL — Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan bor...
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
For now, we can solve the problems of our fiscal and trade deficits by eliminating the corporate income tax and replacing it with a 3% value added tax. This actually cuts taxes and raises more revenue.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
No so very long ago, Afghanistan was known as "the forgotten war." But these days, Afghanistan is hard to miss in the headlines. Obama needs to begin talking about our newly-forgotten war: Iraq.
CNN Politics | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
(CNN) -- Adm. Michael Mullen, the highest-ranking man in the U.S. military, said the situation in Afghanistan is getting worse, as fresh indications e...
GlobalPost | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
At every turn in Kabul, there are the remains and ruins of old kingdoms and empires that provide hard lessons, for those willing to learn them, on the...
Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
**** Scroll down for a poll U.S. troops must withdraw from Iraqi cities and towns by June 30 as part of the Status of Forces Agreement that was ratif...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
America pulling combat forces out of Iraqi cities is going to have multiple effects within the country. At this point, nobody can accurately predict what those effects are going to be with 100 percent reliability.
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 03.19.2009 | World
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Close to 3,000 American soldiers who recently arrived in Afghanistan to secure two violent provinces near Kabul ha...
Christian Science Monitor | Danna Harman | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
For the past three years, Torpekay (Peggy) Farhamg, a longtime security guard and dealer at the strip's Imperial Palace, has been living behind concer...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Yet another Iraqi official is specifying the need for deadlines for U.S. troops to leave their country, casting doubt on John McCain's claim that the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
Aides to Sen. John McCain sought on Wednesday to clear up their boss' position on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's recent insistence that a timet...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Roughly one in every five U.S. troops who have survived the bombs and other dangers of Iraq and Afghanistan now suffers from major ...
Washington Post | Donna St. George | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
he sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptur...
Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson | Posted 10.30.2009 | World