Tag: Afghanistan

President Trump delivered a speech to the U.S. troops at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, on the outskirts of Tokyo, on Sunday. Trump arrived in Japan Sunday on a five-nation trip to Asia, his second extended foreign trip since taking office and his first to Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

National Security

Trump asks Congress for $6 billion for missile defense, ship repair, Asia strategy

Joel Gehrke · November 6, 2017 10:00 pm

Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007, before the House Oversight Committee hearing examining the mission and performance of the private military contractor Blackwater in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh)

Erik Prince believes Trump will eventually privatize Afghanistan War

Steven Nelson · November 6, 2017 5:01 am

Investigators work at the scene of a deadly shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday Nov. 5, 2017. A man opened fire inside of the church in the small South Texas community on Sunday, killing more than 20 people. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

National Security

Weekend wrap: Trump’s trip and Robert Mueller’s investigation top the news until tragedy strikes in Texas

Kyle Feldscher · November 6, 2017 2:39 am

Pentagon identifies Army soldier killed in Afghanistan’s Logar Province

National Security

Pentagon identifies Army soldier killed in Afghanistan’s Logar Province

Melissa Quinn · November 5, 2017 11:10 pm

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl leaves the Fort Bragg courtroom facility as the judge deliberates during a sentencing hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. The judge ruled that Bergdahl to get dishonorable discharge, lose rank, forfeit pay in addition to getting no prison time. Bergdahl, walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

National Security

Bowe Bergdahl to get dishonorable discharge, lose rank, forfeit pay in addition to getting no prison time

Associated Press · November 3, 2017 3:48 pm

The Big Reveal: The Story of How 470,000 Documents from Osama Bin Laden’s Compound Finally Got Into the Open

Stephen F. Hayes · November 3, 2017 7:10 am

Transparent Lies

The Editors · November 3, 2017 7:10 am

It's a mixed bag. Not everything is bad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Beltway Confidential

Afghanistan status report: Progress is too slow, but we have cause for optimism

Tom Rogan · October 31, 2017 9:02 pm

United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said part of the strategy designed to demoralize a resurgent Taliban is to no longer release any tactical information that would provide aid or comfort to the enemy. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

US military classifies Afghanistan data as Taliban make gains

Jamie McIntyre · October 31, 2017 4:27 pm

The helicopter crash "was not the result of enemy action," the Pentagon said in an earlier statement released Saturday. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin T. Updegraff, Operation Resolute Support via AP)

National Security

Pentagon identifies service member killed Friday helicopter crash in Afghanistan

Anna Giaritelli · October 29, 2017 4:06 pm

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, to brief the Senate Foreign Relations Committee behind closed-doors regarding the administration's perspective on the authorizations for the use of military force. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jim Mattis and Rex Tillerson will testify as Senate war authorization debate heats up

Travis J. Tritten · October 29, 2017 4:01 am

In this Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, photo, a general view of Mes Aynak valley, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

US service member dies in Afghanistan chopper crash

Gabby Morrongiello · October 28, 2017 1:11 pm