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As Americans, including President Obama's top advisers, tensely debate whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, Afghans themselves are hav...
Foreign Policy | John Mearsheimer | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
The conventional wisdom among most Republicans is that while the United States had serious difficulty in Vietnam during the early years, by the early ...
Truthdig | Narda Zacchino | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
George McGovern has some advice for President Barack Obama: Get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. "I'm convinced that war is going to turn sour. I'm co...
Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
For us, the troops are invisible. They don't exist. They don't count. For the folks I speak with from the military, it really has come down to, "Let us go big or let us come home."
washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.31.2009 | World
President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...
Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
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 ...
Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** BEN FELLER, Associated Press DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. -- Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama...
New York Times | Thom Shanker, Peter Baker and Helene Cooper | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
President Obama's advisers are focusing on a strategy for Afghanistan aimed at protecting about 10 top population centers, administration officials sa...
GlobalPost | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
PARIS, France -- Whoever ends up presiding over Afghan chaos and corruption, Europe is losing patience fast with U.S. mission muddle and a president w...
AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
KABUL — Gunmen attacked a guest house used by U.N. staff in the Afghan capital of Kabul early Wednesday, killing at least seven people including...
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Recently I spent 5 months in Afghanistan, studying the country up close, going all around the country and writing about the conflict. If I'm confused, how about average Americans?
AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
KABUL — A U.S. military helicopter crashed Monday while returning from the scene of a firefight with suspected Taliban drug traffickers in weste...
Wall Street Journal | PETER SPIEGEL and YOCHI DREAZEN | Posted 10.24.2009 | World
The Obama administration is moving toward a hybrid strategy in Afghanistan that would combine elements of both the troop-heavy approach sought by its ...
Posted 10.20.2009 | Impact
Miller Lite is promoting Veteran's Day in a significant way this year, with a goal to raise $500,000 for Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that support...
nytimes.com | ROBERT A. PAPE | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
AS President Obama and his national security team confer this week to consider strategies for Afghanistan, one point seems clear: our current military...
Wall Street Journal | PETER SPIEGEL and YOCHI DREAZEN | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
The request for troops sent to President Barack Obama by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan includes three different options, with the largest alte...
Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
I have seen what is antiseptically known as collateral damage from this war in two unlikely places: the city of Paris and the countryside of rural Punjab.
Times London | Martin Fletcher | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine ...
Mary Ellen McNish | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Afghans and Americans deserve is a full, public discussion of the policy choices looming in the next weeks. We must choose to demonstrate a commitment to the rule of law, and not violence.
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama is not considering a strategy for Afghanistan that would withdraw U.S. troo...
Christian Science Monitor | Dan Murphey and Ben Arnoldy | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Lt. Col. Edward Stein, a US Army Ranger, had a specific task for the Afghan soldiers he was training: Do a security check in Kabul ahead of a speech b...
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...
AP | LORI HINNANT | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
KABUL — An Afghan policeman on patrol with U.S. soldiers opened fire on the Americans, killing two of them before fleeing, officials said Saturd...
AP | LARA JAKES and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to delay a face-to-face briefing from the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, who hours earlier had warned...
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New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 11.07.2009 | World