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The Bryan-College Station Eagle - Tue Nov 10, 8:46 am ET
AUSTIN, Texas -- An overseas tour of duty has ended for a once-malnourished dog lovingly nurtured by Texas troops in Afghanistan.The now-65-pound mixed breed dog named "Delilah" on Tuesday spent her first full day in Austin.The white puppy in June ...
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Island Packet - Mon Nov 9, 9:11 pm ET
The camp in Afghanistan that housed Chief Hospital Corpsman David Strickland and about 100 other Mar
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Boston Globe - Mon Nov 9, 11:18 pm ET
Japan said Tuesday it plans to provide up to $5 billion in new Afghanistan aid over the next 5 years as the country's naval refueling mission in the region draws to a close.
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Bedford Times-Mail - 21 minutes ago
Edgewood High School graduate Pvt. Logan Purtlebaugh will spend Veterans Day in Afghanistan. The chaplain assistant with ... Please log in to read the rest of this story.
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Desert Trail - 23 minutes ago
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — A Marine from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center was killed while on patrol here Wednesday, Oct. 28. Lance Cpl. Cody R. Stanley, 21, of Rosanky, Texas, died while supporting combat operations, the Department of Defense announced.
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The Ames Tribune - 24 minutes ago
Stephen Wise, an Ames native and former quarterback for the Ames High football team, was in a four-hour firefight last week in Afghanistan when his Army platoon came under attack outside the village of Qatar Kala, a village in the eastern portion of the country.
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Seattle Times - Tue Nov 10, 3:13 am ET
A Custer, Whatcom County, man was one of two Fort Lewis soldiers killed Thursday in Afghanistan when the Stryker vehicle he was driving went over a buried explosive.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 49 minutes ago
The bodies of six British troops killed in Afghanistan were flown home Tuesday, as Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised to a dead soldier's mother for a botched condolence letter.
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Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Tue Nov 10, 12:54 am ET
Peter Galbraith, who was fired after alleging that the United Nations covered up fraud during the presidential election in Afghanistan, said Monday that sending more American troops to the war-torn nation won’t help.
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Boston Globe - Mon Nov 9, 4:48 am ET
About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints.
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Fox News - 1 hour 48 minutes ago
NATO officials say 250 tons of suspected bomb-making material has been seized in a raid in Kandahar, a stronghold of Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan.
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Arizona Daily Star - Tue Nov 10, 2:18 am ET
KABUL — Afghan and international troops killed more than 130 insurgents in six days of fighting in a once-stable area of northern Afghanistan that has seen a recent spike in Taliban attacks, NATO said Monday. It was some of the heaviest fighting in the north this year.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 50 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev , drawing on his experience of military failure in Afghanistan in the 1980s, said the U.S. can’t win the conflict there and should begin pulling out its soldiers.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 53 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev , drawing on his experience of military failure in Afghanistan in the 1980s, said the U.S. can’t win the conflict there and should begin pulling out its soldiers.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 56 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev , drawing on his experience of military failure in Afghanistan in the 1980s, said the U.S. can’t win the conflict there and should begin pulling out its soldiers.