"Frankly, we are running out of time," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee, referring to the international effort to stabilize Afghanistan.

Retired Col. Eric Terashima rates scenes portraying the Afghanistan War in movies. During his 30 years of service, Terashima had 12 deployments, including eight combat tours, three of which were in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Fierce fighting broke out around Afghanistan on Friday, with battles in three separate regions killing more than 100 militants, part of a cycle of rapidly rising violence five ...

The road to success for President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy runs through India, goes an increasingly familiar refrain. That’s because reversing the Taliban’s momentum requires getting rid of the ...

Retired Col. Eric Terashima rates scenes portraying the Afghanistan War in movies. During his 30 years of service, Terashima had 12 deployments, including eight combat tours, three of which were in ...

NPR's Tom Gjelten brings us an overview of the past five days of fighting in the mountains of Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan. He provides some of the details of the battle that are just now ...

The spectacle of fierce fighting around a dusty Afghan town, with well-armed Western troops, backed by helicopters and Afghan allies, bearing down on hundreds of dug-in Taliban fighters, would seem to ...

The Taliban craves recognition by the international community that it is the only group capable of ruling and establishing security in Afghanistan. But not only has the militant group failed to ...

"Keep your eyes locked on the target. The enemy also has a weapon and a life." At Camp Morehead, Afghanistan's commando school, Afghan soldiers are being shaped into the elite troops that NATO hopes ...

A 19-year-old soldier from Battle Ground in southwestern Washington was killed Saturday in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said Monday. Pvt. Andrew Jon Shields, a combat medic and paratrooper, ...

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