The basic rule for Marine boot camp is simple: Keep your mouth shut and mind your own business. ...more

July 21, 2008

AFGHANISTAN - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged steadfast aid to Afghanistan in talks with its Western-backed leader Sunday and vowed to pursue the war on terror "with vigor" if he is elected, an Afghan official said. ...more

July 20, 2008

After intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casualties are running higher than in Iraq, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday. ...more

July 20, 2008

More than half of all veterans who took their own lives after returning from Iraq or Afghanistan were members of the National Guard or Reserves, according to new government data that prompted activists on Tuesday to call for a closer examination of the problem. ...more

February 13, 2008

President Bush held an emergency meeting of his top foreign policy aides Friday to discuss the deepening crisis in Pakistan, as administration officials and others explored whether Thursday's assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto marks the beginning of a new Islamic extremist offensive that could spread beyond Pakistan and undermine the U.S. war effort in neighboring Afghanistan. ...more

December 29, 2007

Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, according to excerpts of a new audiotape broadcast Thursday on Al-Jazeera television. ...more

November 30, 2007

"Lions for Lambs" seems to ask every question imaginable about the war on terrorism while offering no answers. ...more

November 8, 2007

Japan's Defense Ministry ordered home its naval ships from the Indian Ocean on Thursday, ending for now a six-year mission in support of the war in Afghanistan that raised the nation's military presence overseas but has drawn increasing criticism domestically. ...more

November 2, 2007