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The Afghan government and the U.S. military are pursuing an effort to lure low-level insurgents with job offers and other incentives, and split them from their Taliban leaders. In his second inaugural last week, President Hamid Karzai called on militants to lay down their arms and return to their homes.
Two months before he died in eastern Afghanistan, 1st Lt. Jonathan P. Brostrom made a surprise Mother's Day visit to his parents' home in Aiea. "Some friends of his were over and made me dinner," his mother, Mary Jo, recalled. "At about 10 at night there was a knock on the door. One of the girls said, 'Mary Jo, there's a soldier with a bouquet of flowers at the door for you.' I thought she was ...
HUTAL, Afghanistan — The denizens of this dusty market town had never seen anything like the sight that greeted them at midday Oct. 12.
A former Breckenridge High School teacher soon to depart for Afghanistan is leaving an electronic trail behind him. Daryl Bubbers, former business teacher, has created a Facebook account so students can keep track of his exploits.
Nearly 700 Fort Campbell soldiers are scheduled to return to the Army post this week after a 12-month deployment to Afghanistan.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — A southwest Michigan soldier has been killed in Afghanistan. The U.S. Defense Department announced Monday 25-year-old Army Sgt. Daniel Frazier of St. Joseph died Thursday in Zabul province.
The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama could announce a decision on whether to send tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan as soon as next week.
Marysville's John J. Cleaver was one of two soldiers killed in the Zabul province of Afghanistan Nov. 19, after a suicide bomber attacked his unit.
A bomb-sniffing black Labrador that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan has been found and returned to her unit.
American and Afghan officials have begun helping anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban.
The Afghan government and the U.S. military are pursuing an effort to lure low-level insurgents with job offers and other incentives, and split them from their Taliban leaders. In his second inaugural last week, President Hamid Karzai called on militants to lay down their arms and return to their homes.
Four United States troops have died fighting in Afghanistan in the last 24 hours, NATO said in a statement Monday.
The White House said President Barack Obama could use an unusual evening war council session Monday to lock in his long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House said President Barack Obama could use an unusual evening war council session Monday to lock in his long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war in Afghanistan.
Pakistani security forces backed by tanks and artillery attacked Taliban positions in the northwest of the country, killing 22 militants, a senior police official on Monday.
A primer on the military utility of some of the force options before President Obama to bolster the 68,000 American troops already in Afghanistan.
