Tag: Afghanistan

Top General: Prepare for a Long War

Top General: Prepare for a Long War

Geoffrey Norman · July 2, 2015 7:35 pm

A worker walks past electrical transformers at the U.S.-built 105MW Tarakhil Power Plant on September 8, 2011 in Tarakhil, Afghanistan, on the outskirts of Kabul. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Failed Afghan project highlights Clinton’s contractor ties

Sarah Bedford · June 26, 2015 4:01 am

Setbacks in the ‘Good War’

Setbacks in the ‘Good War’

Geoffrey Norman · June 23, 2015 6:45 pm

Fire and smokes rise at the site of a suicide attack during clashes with Taliban fighters in front of the Parliament, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 22, 2015. The Taliban launched a complex attack on the Afghan parliament Monday, with a suicide car bomber striking at the entrance and gunmen battling police as lawmakers were meeting inside to confirm the appointment of a defense minister, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

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Taliban attacks Afghanistan parliament

Kelly Cohen · June 22, 2015 11:13 am

ISIS helps fuel record spike in terrorist deaths worldwide

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ISIS helps fuel record spike in terrorist deaths worldwide

Charles Hoskinson · June 19, 2015 7:18 pm

The poll also found that 79 percent of voters approve of American airstrikes against "Islamic extremists." (AP Photo)

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Democrats, independents less likely to view Iraq, Afghanistan wars as mistakes

Elizabeth Potter · June 15, 2015 6:39 pm

"There is no such constitutional right" to live in the United States with one's spouse, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the majority opinion. (Getty Images file)

Supreme Court: Visas can be denied without explanation to spouses

Robert King · June 15, 2015 3:27 pm

In this Sunday, April 12, 2015 photo, Afghan National Army soldiers patrol a road in Herat city, west of capital Kabul. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

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U.S. official warns of Afghan ‘ghost soldiers’

Tara Copp · June 12, 2015 7:42 pm

Captain Jason Amerine, 5th Special Forces Group, adresses the audience during a September 11th Commemorative Ceremony at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, southern Germany, on Tuesday Dec.11, 2001. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

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Green Beret faced retaliation after talking to Congress about Bergdahl swap

Susan Crabtree · June 11, 2015 6:15 pm

Michael McCaul said pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan was President Obama's strategy all along, and said those conditions helped create the Islamic State. (AP Photo)Â

McCaul: Obama ‘can’t get his head around’ ISIS surge

Pete Kasperowicz · June 9, 2015 2:48 pm

Gold star vet’s dad confronts ‘war hawk’ Cotton: When do we hang up the mission accomplished banner?

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Gold star vet’s dad confronts ‘war hawk’ Cotton: When do we hang up the mission accomplished banner?

Barbara Boland · June 6, 2015 6:30 pm

This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A U.S. official says Bergdahl, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan and was held by the Taliban for five years, will be court martialed on charges of desertion and avoiding military service. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, file)

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Bergdahl seeks to remove general from his case

Tara Copp · June 5, 2015 9:10 pm