US weapons failed in 2008 Afghanistan firefight
WASHINGTON — It was chaos during the early morning assault last year on a remote U.S. outpost in Afghanistan and Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 c...
WASHINGTON — It was chaos during the early morning assault last year on a remote U.S. outpost in Afghanistan and Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 c...
Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
Wednesday marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. The notable date comes as the United States fiercely debates the future of...
AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan killed two U.S. troops Friday, the U.S. military said. The explosion occu...
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
KABUL — Taliban militants detonated a bomb and opened fire on a vehicle carrying U.S. soldiers on Thursday, killing three of them, as President ...
Danger Room | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs, or even those infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they're goin...
AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 04.15.2009 | World
KABUL — A roadside bomb killed four American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday _ new evidence of rising violence in a region where clash...
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World
President Barack Obama decided to approve only 17,000 of the 30,000 troops requested by Gen. David McKiernan, the top commander of U.S. and NATO tro...
Reuters | David Morgan | Posted 12.23.2008 | Home
The Pentagon is considering a plan to send more than 20,000 troops to Afghanistan over the next 12 to 18 months to help safeguard elections and quell ...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — U.S. troops on the battlefield found it harder to get the mental health care they needed last year, when violence rose in Afghanist...
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics