Canada has new commander in Afghanistan

Command of Canada's Task Force Kandahar is in new hands after a handover ceremony Thursday at the main NATO base in southern Afghanistan. Brig.-Gen. Dean Milner will be the final commander of Canada's ...
Politifact

Combat mission in Afghanistan ends

During his 2012 re-election campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to "end the war in Afghanistan in 2014." As straightforward as that might sound, disentangling U.S. involvement in Afghanistan ...
Reuters

U.S.-led mission in Afghanistan ends combat role; thousands of foreign troops remain

KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan formally ended its combat mission on Sunday, more than 13 years after an international alliance ousted the Taliban government for sheltering the ...
Time

Ceremony for Returning Troops Closes French Combat Mission in Afghanistan

A French soldier secures a perimeter on September 26, 2012, on a forward observing post near the National Police Training Center (NPTC) in Wardak province. France is the fifth largest contributor to ...
Air Force Times

Special tactics airman killed in Afghanistan followed in family’s footsteps

Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin, a special tactics combat controller with the 26th Special Tactics Squadron, was killed when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Ghazni Province, ...
usace.army.mil

Combat Engineers recount reasons for success in Afghanistan bomb-clearing mission

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Jan. 24, 2013) -- "Combined arms" is a military term more often associated with assaults, ambushes and other dramatic actions used to close with and destroy the enemy. For ...