Recent accounts of Afghanistan's war driven economy point to an alarming reality. Control over mineral resources has become a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Against a backdrop of 90 dead Illinois soldiers during the Afghanistan War, veterans and relatives of those who lost their lives struggle with the controversial American exodus.

American power succeeds only when it enters a conflict with limits, legitimacy, and a political end state already within ...

Even as veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan acknowledge the skill required to pull off the operation, the question of “what comes next” hangs over it.

The failed U.S. bid to rebuild Afghanistan over two decades cost $148 billion and nearly 2,500 American lives, according to the final report from the agency tasked with oversight of the gargantuan ...

The first is that messy war in which, just in the past week, more than 40 high school students were blown to pieces in their classroom, hundreds of bodies were left abandoned for a week in the streets ...

On the night before Thanksgiving, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan immigrant who had served with the CIA in the war against the Taliban regime, shot two members of the West Virginia National Guard in ...