KABUL — Five U.S. troops died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, military officials said Friday, adding to this year's record death toll as Ame...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.23.2009 | 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.
The Nation | Eric Naing | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
The House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight met today to discuss issues of sovereignty and stability in Iraq ran...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
Three US servicemen have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, a Nato spokesman has said. The spokesman said that the deaths occurr...
McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
GANJGAL, Afghanistan -- Manning a machine gun on a ridge overlooking this remote Afghan village, U.S. Marine Cpl. Steven Norman tried desperately to l...
The Observer | Declan Walsh | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
Five US soldiers were among dozens killed in a wave of violence in Afghanistan as pressure grew on President Hamid Karzai last night to strike a power...
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Many of the troops at this sprawling U.S. air base were in their mid-teens when they watched the planes hit the W...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama weighs thrusting America deeper into the conflict in Afghanistan with perhaps thousands more combat troop...
nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Does the United States need a large and growing ground force in Afghanistan to prevent another major terrorist attack on American soil? ...
AP | LARA JAKES and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Facing eroding public support for the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon chief said Thursday that the Obama administration's effort i...
Michael Wolff | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
What are they going to do about Afghanistan? And how much time do they have left to do it? I figure a month.
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
The Taliban has become a much more potent adversary in Afghanistan by improving its own tactics and finding gaps in the U.S. military playbook, accord...
AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
KABUL — The NATO-led force in Afghanistan says attacks have killed two U.S. troops, keeping August on track to be the deadliest month of the war...
AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A cluster of vehicle bombs detonated simultaneously Tuesday in the Taliban's spiritual homeland near a foreign-owned con...
The New York Times | ROD NORDLAND | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
BAGHDAD -- The commanding general of American forces in Iraq said Monday that he had proposed putting United States troops in disputed parts of northe...
AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
DAHANEH, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines have mounted a helicopter assault to seize the Taliban-held town of Dahaneh in southern Afghanistan and are ...
AP | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee says more troops are needed in Afghanistan and is warning that the U.S. must no...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The U.S. general put in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes in the campaign ...
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — A combat brigade of 5,000 American troops may be brought home early from Iraq if the trend of reduced violence...
New York Times | ROD NORDLAND and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
Commanders of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, as the American-led military coalition here is formally called, have a looming nomenclature problem....
AP | ROBERT H. REID and KATHY GANNON | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
KABUL — A confident President Hamid Karzai on Monday offered peace talks to Taliban militants if they renounce violence and called for a new rel...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Monday that the size of the Army will be increased temporarily by 22,000 soldiers to help ...
Washington Post | Ernesto Londoño and Karen DeYoung | Posted 08.18.2009 | World
The Iraqi government has moved to sharply restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in a new reading of a six-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security ...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Raising expectations for scaling back military operations in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he hopes U.S. involve...
USA Today | Mary Brophy Marcus, | Posted 08.12.2009 | Politics
Veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a significantly higher risk of developing dementia compared with veterans who don't...
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 11.25.2009 | World