BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan: Airmen in the 4th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron are looking for trouble, using the MC-12W Liberty to bring tactical.

James Neiss/staff photographer Honoring His Memory: Gricela Dikcis holds a photo of her stepson, U.S. Army Spc. Alan Nathan Dikcis, who was killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in Marjah, Afghanistan.

New York, Mar.12 : Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai might have described Pakistan and Afghanistan as 'co-joined' twins, but experts believe that there is underlying tension simmering between both na...

Photo: Master Corporal Angela Abbey, Canadian Forces Combat Camera Matthew Fisher, Afghan war journalist for Canwest, writes that one of the primary.

It's pretty much conventional wisdom at this point that we're going to have to negotiate with the Taliban. Washington, Kabul, and Islamabad will divvy them up into "good Taliban" and "b...

The husband of one soldier didn't want to be apart, so he found a way to go with her...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is in India with the aim of signing $10 billion worth of deals covering military and civilian spheres.

Those involved will spearhead projects ranging from irrigation to helping shape the country's justice system - but there are doubts they will make much of an impact.Kim Ghattas...

Rachel Maddow reports on a statement by Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the U.S. will begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan no later than July 2011. (msnbc.com) Robert...

The founder of an Afghanistan orphanage profiled on NBC Nightly News, Andeisha Farid, was honored at a ceremony at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday by the global women’s...

Stunning! Sept 11 = a "big lie" told to invade #Afghanistan & #Iraq, says #Iran's Ahmadinejad (AP) http://bit.ly/czfxwr0 comments Source: news.yahoo.com...

(CNN) -- Two days before his official trip to Afghanistan, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a "big lie" intended to pave the way for...

(CNN) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid a surprise visit to British troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, his office said.0 comments Source: www.cnn.com...

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an unannounced visit to Marjah on Sunday to see the gains made after a massive military offensive by Afghan and international troops to w...

NewsBuzzer: PM visits soldiers in Afghanistan - Gordon Brown visits British troops in Afghanistan amid a grow.. http://tinyurl.com/ye7gbvd0 comments Source: news.bbc.co.uk...

After a resolution to pull troops out of Afghanistan was denied by the House, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D - R.I., raged against the media and U.S. policy in Afghanistan.

A photographic collage of a week at FOB Shank, Afghanistan - Logar Province, compressed into a "regular" day.

Yesterday, at long last, there was a vigorous debate about the war in Afghanistan on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. The legislative vehicle was a resolution introduced by Ohi...

House Afghanistan Debate: What Kucinich Accomplished: On Wednesday, at long last, there was a vigorous debate about the war in Afghanistan on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. T...

(Continuing the discussion by CSPANJunkie & Susie Madrak) Candy Crowley at CNN has to be called out for a special mark of shame as she suggests that one "could argue one way or the other" as to whethe...

...to spin everything from then-Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s job performance to US military operations in Afghanistan to the Guantanamo Bay...

...during war however, has proven to be problematic.  After years of war and violent occupation in Afghanistan and Iraq, public perception of...

Young combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have another challenge waiting for them when they return home: steep unemployment.

Canadian, American and Afghan military engineers repaired a bomb-damaged bridge Thursday the Taliban attacked because it is southern Afghanistan’s...

Brian Conley. Brian Conley at the Boiler: Miniature War in Iraq and Now Afghanistan. Pierogi. Through March 21...

RT @ramanthink: More trouble for India in Afghanistan likely.ISI thinks it can do in Afghanistan what it can't in J&K---make India bend.

Rakkasans find another weapons cache http://tinyurl.com/yb5mcp7 #militarymon #sot #tcot #Kentucky #Afghanistan...

2010-03-11 Greens to participate in the 'US Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now' march in Washington, DC, on March 20 http://goo.gl/v0RE...

Update On Camp Pendleton-Based Marines In Afghanistan http://bit.ly/aiQSgN...

Buzkashi, Afghanistan http://www.flickr.com/photos/pouryar/114424725/...

Article about Afghanistan including information about its history and politics.

News, history, culture, chat room, and more about Afghanistan.

A guide to Afghanistan with articles, photos, facts, videos, and news from National Geographic.

World news about Afghanistan. Breaking news and archival information about its people, politics, and economy from The New York Times.

Taliban militants kill five police forces in western Afghanistan ... Afghanistan will increase its 82,000-strong police force by 15,000 officers ...

Lashkar-e-Taiba: Bad company By Bill RoggioMarch 11, 2010 . Below is a statement from Representative Gary Ackerman, the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South […]...

Zum Schwerpunkt-Thema: Kampagne zur Beendigung des Afghanistan-Krieges möchten wir auf einige sehr informative und wichtige Artikel aufmerksam machen. Bisher: Deutschlands “Kampfeinsatz”...

Sejumlah ujian keimanan dan kesabaran kembali dialami umat Islam akhir-akhir ini, khususnya di sejumlah negara Barat seperti Inggris, Denmark, Swiss, Jerman, Prancis, Kanada, Belanda dan—tentu saja...

I Remember When........... I guess I'm getting old or at least older because I remember days that were better but seem like light years ago.   So as […]...

(KATAKAMI / VOA)  White House officials say U.S. troops and their allies are making steady progress against militants in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama's holds a video conference call [R...

The extension of Unpleasant Living Allowance to cover Service personnel living and operating from Forward Operating Bases and Patrol Bases in Afghanistan. The Chronicle understands that when military...

As the Afghanistan War intensifies - Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops - it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so. It's become America's war. When the for...

WASHINGTON — The arrest in Yemen of a New Jersey man accused of joining al Qaeda is the latest in a string of cases involving radicalized American Muslims, a trend some experts link to the duration...

Owens had already served one tour in Iraq before he was stationed in Yosuf Khel, Afghanistan, with the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division. H...

Above: We talk to Tony Perry, San Diego bureau chief for the "Los Angeles Times" about how the mission of Camp Pendleton-based U.S. Marines is going in Afghanistan. March 12, 2010 GLORIA PENNER (Host)...

He never grew used to it. But Hank McIntire understood his role. When the families of slain service members were left speechless by grief, the Utah National Guard spokesman often stepped forward to be...

More "Smart diplomacy" from the people who wanted to restore America's reputation: A recent comment by Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakist...

A night raid carried out by US and Afghan gunmen led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials in an atrocity which Nato then tried to cover up, survivors have told T...

BRITISH commanders in Afghanistan are watching to see if the Taleban is changing tactics after troops in a militant hotspot reported that insurgents' shooting is becomingSource : Scotsman.com (subscri...

BRITISH commanders in Afghanistan are watching to see if the Taleban is changing tactics after troops in a militant hotspot reported that insurgents' shooting is becomingSource : News Scotsman (subscr...

Ever have one of those blogging kinda days where there is so much to talk about, and so little space to do it in? I think bullet points are appropriate for this kind of post: * First and foremost, I...

Author: Tobias Harris, MIT In different ways, two articles published in Western media outlets this week suggest the emergence of a new narrative concerning Japan in elite circles in the United States...

If one person has consistently spoken for the working class in the last decades, it has been Rosanne Barr. This is from her amazing "when the dems screwed Hillary, they screwed america" (Ro...

Friday night, movie night. The Owl & The Pussycat is a comedy starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal. She's Doris, he's Felix. He's a writer, she's an actress (most recently in the film Cyc...

Tricia found a recipe online that her kids like ("and it's easy!") and she wanted to share it. Moms Wiener Soup Ingredients 1 onion 1 qt milk 4 wieners 2 Tbs flour 4 Tbs butter 1 1/2 tsp...