Tag: Afghanistan

Help from Iran is an attempt to boost the falling morale of regime supporters, in addition to helping to improve Tehran's leverage as the deadline for a nuclear deal looms at the end of June. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Iran sends 15,000 troops to support Assad in Syria

Kelly Cohen · June 5, 2015 4:23 pm

"The bill before us is designed to write an end run around sequestration for the Department of Defense by exploiting a provision that exempts spending caps," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Thursday. (AP File Photo)

Dems threaten to block defense bill over sequester

Susan Ferrechio · June 5, 2015 4:01 am

The Veterans Accountability Act could be the start of much-needed reforms to the VA healthcare system.

Veterans’ views: Was Iraq worth the fight?

Jed Babbin · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal speaks during a forum called "Ask What You Can Do For America's Veterans" at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, March 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

National Security

Ex-Afghanistan general: Taliban five ‘presumably’ will return to fight

Kelly Cohen · May 31, 2015 3:54 pm

In this undated image provided by the U.S. Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl poses in front of an American flag. U.S. officials say Bergdahl, the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan, was exchanged for five Taliban commanders being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to published reports. Bergdahl is in stable condition at a Berlin hospital, according to the reports. (Photo by U.S. Army via Getty Images)

National Security

5 senior Taliban leaders to be freed on Monday

Charles Hoskinson · May 31, 2015 4:01 am

Obama: First Memorial Day in 14 years without ground combat

Obama: First Memorial Day in 14 years without ground combat

Paige Winfield Cunningham · May 25, 2015 6:01 pm

Third U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Pfc. Benjamin Feldbush of Stafford County, Va., places a flag in front of a headstone at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 21, 2015. "Flags In" is an annual tradition that is reserved for The Old Guard since its designation as the Army's official ceremonial unit in 1948. They conduct the mission annually at Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery prior to Memorial Day to honor our nation's fallen military heroes. (AP Photo)

National Security

Remembrance

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2015 9:00 am

President Barack Obama lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Soldiers are still dying in Afghanistan, Obama honors the fallen

Barbara Boland · May 23, 2015 1:52 pm

Susan Rice: ‘We Have Ended Two Wars Responsibly’

Susan Rice: ‘We Have Ended Two Wars Responsibly’

Geoffrey Norman · May 20, 2015 8:19 pm

Asking presidential candidates whether they support or would change past foreign policy decisions, like whetherÂ President Bush should have sent the U.S. military into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein in 2003,Â is the most common line of questioning among members of the media. (Getty Image)

We’re asking presidential candidates all the wrong questions

Pete Hoekstra · May 15, 2015 9:00 am

If tens of thousands of vulnerable Afghan kids have rejected the call to extremism by embracing peace, shouldn't we give peace education a chance in America, too? (AP Photo)Â

Combat home-grown terror by teaching peace

Suraya Sadeed · May 15, 2015 9:00 am

President George W. Bush, shakes hands with Navy Petty Officer, Jesse Alvarado, right, after presenting him with the President's Volunteer Service Award Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va. Bush, was in Norfolk to take part in the commissioning ceremony for the aircraft carrier, USS George H. W. Bush at Naval Station Norfolk.Â (AP Photo)

To blame and blame not

Noemie Emery · May 12, 2015 9:00 am