President Barack Obama prioritized the conflict in Afghanistan soon after taking office, but he made it clear that the U.S. would scale down its ambitions there. The objective of the mission would be ...

While the White House tries to dissipate confusion about troop withdrawals, stressing that July 2011 is merely the start of a gradual process, many questions linger about President Obama's Afghanistan ...

American officials will waste billions of dollars on extra facilities being built with U.S. tax money for Afghanistan’s military unless they scale the size and number of the facilities to match actual ...

At the time of the explosion, Taliban officials were holding a security meeting inside the building, indicating that the ...