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The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday he will not renew his contract when it expires in March after a two-year tenure marred by controversy over his handling of the country's fraud-marred presidential election and a deadly attack on U.N. workers.
Pfc. David Hutchinson was only four days into a 12-month deployment with the 420th Engineer Brigade in eastern Afghanistan and was riding on his first patrol to get acquainted with the surroundings in Paktia province.
President Barack Obama says he needed to set a deadline to start withdrawing U.S. forces so the Afghans wouldn't assume their country would be "a permanent protectorate" of the United States.
WATERBURY (AP) — The Defense Department has announced that a Connecticut Marine has died from wounds he suffered during combat operations in Afghanistan.
Servicemen and civilians with Connecticut ties who have died since March 2002 in Iraq and Afghanistan:
16,000 troops have received orders for Afghanistan.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's defense minister is making an unannounced visit to northern Afghanistan.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Kabul today for talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the Obama administration’s strategy for combating the Taliban, the American Embassy said.
(RTTNews) - Afghanistan's rebel militant group Taliban has warned South Korean government of 'bad consequences' if it dispatches its defense force to take part in the fight against insurgents in the war-torn country.
EL PASO -- On the Taliban's "home turf," an El Paso soldier is helping boys and girls get the tools they need to read and write.
A Baptist scholar and ethicist declared recently that the conflict in Afghanistan is an unjust war.
Pakistan's military operations have "significantly degraded" Taliban militants but Islamabad has yet to go after the Taliban's Afghan leadership, a top US general said on Wednesday.
FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as U.S. investigators gather evidence that could lead to a conspiracy charge against them, an American official and another person familiar with the case said Friday.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) --President Barack Obama defended his decision to set a deadline to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan, saying he wanted to send a clear message that American involvement won’t be open-ended.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide called on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to start looking for someone to take over his post, officials said.
President Obama’s evolving approach to national security as set out in his Nobel Prize speech lacks bumper-sticker simplicity.
