Tag: Afghanistan

$30M Contract Awarded for Security at State Department Anti-Narcotics ‘Strip Mall’ Facility

Jeryl Bier · August 11, 2014 10:18 am

Afghanistan's security forces search the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. An Afghan official says that several civilians have been killed in a suicide bombing targeting a NATO convoy moving through the capital, Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

4 Afghan civilians killed in Kabul suicide bombing

Washington Examiner · August 10, 2014 10:17 am

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, from left, speaks as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and another candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai listen during a joint press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Abdullah called the agreement on the disputed presidential election "another step forward in the interests of strengthening national unity in the country, strengthening rule of law in the country and bringing hope to the people for the future of Afghanistan." (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan candidates agree to resolve dispute

Matthew Lee · August 8, 2014 3:49 pm

National Security

Kerry urges Afghan candidates to end dispute

Matthew Lee · August 7, 2014 6:29 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit to try to calm tensions between the country's two feuding presidential candidates. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

John Kerry in Afghanistan to meet feuding candidates

Matthew Lee · August 7, 2014 1:20 pm

Afghanistan National Army soldiers stand guard at a gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Earlier in the day, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops at the military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding others, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

Afghan official: General’s killer hid in bathroom

Amir Shah · August 6, 2014 7:38 pm

In this May 10, 2011, photo provided by the U.S. Army, then-Brig. Gen. Harold Greene speaks at Natick, Mass., on his last day of command of the Natick Soldier Systems Center. Maj. Gen. Greene, the two-star Army general who on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either of America's post-9/11 wars, was an engineer who rose through the ranks as an expert in developing and fielding the Army's war materiel. He was on his first deployment to a war zone.(AP Photo/U.S. Army)

National Security

General killed in Afghan attack was engineer

Robert Burns · August 6, 2014 4:22 pm

Afghan soldier kills US general, wounds about 15

faiezlolita-baldor, robert-burnsrahim · August 6, 2014 12:23 am

National Security

Why the killing of a general won’t change U.S. strategy in Afghanistan

Brian Hughes · August 5, 2014 9:21 pm

National Security

VIDEO: Details scarce after U.S. major general dead in Afghanistan shooting

Ed Sykes · August 5, 2014 7:37 pm

US officials: US general killed in Afghan attack

Robert Burns · August 5, 2014 5:27 pm

A NATO soldier opens fire toward journalists near the main gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on foreign troops at a military base, causing casualties, an Afghan military spokesman said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

Afghan attack kills U.S. major general, wounds 15

Robert Burns · August 5, 2014 4:30 pm