Tag: Afghanistan

FILE - In this March 23, 2011 file photograph, Afghan detainees, seen through a mesh wire fence, prepare for noon prayers inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. The Afghan government has begun the process of releasing three dozen prisoners, officials said Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, despite U.S. protests that they are highly dangerous, the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries ahead of the year-end withdrawal of most international combat troops. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

National Security

US: Afghanistan to release ‘dangerous’ prisoners

Cassandra Vinograd · January 27, 2014 8:06 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue Plenary Session with Pakistani National Security and Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz at the State Department in Washington, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Afghanistan instability weighing on Pakistan

Lara Jakes · January 27, 2014 5:54 pm

All or Nothing in Afghanistan?

Geoffrey Norman · January 27, 2014 2:49 pm

Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford commands the U.S. forces in Afghanistan and the International Security Assistance Force. The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction found that a reconstruction program in Afghanistan has spent less than its annual budget for six years straight, but that hasn't stopped the Department of Defense from requesting hundreds of millions more each year. (AP Photo/Chip Somodevilla, Pool)

National Security

Watchdog demands answers on why DOD asked for money it didn’t need in Afghanistan

Michal Conger · January 24, 2014 5:00 am

Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets regularly with Gold Star families with his wife. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Adm. Mike Mullen: Americans forget the troops who die in ‘our dirty little wars’

Joel Gehrke · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Know Your Enemy

Thomas Joscelyn · January 20, 2014 5:00 am

An Afghan puts flowers outside of the La Taverna du Liban restaurant, during an anti terrorism demonstration in Kabul on Sunday, Jan. 19. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

IMF’s Afghan chief, UN workers among 21 killed in Kabul bomb

Bloomberg News · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

NATO International security assistance forces personnel investigate at the site of the Friday's suicide attack and shooting, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. A Taliban suicide bomber and two gunmen on Friday attacked a Lebanese restaurant that is popular with foreigners and affluent Afghans in Kabul, a brazen attack that left 16 dead, including foreigners dining inside and two other gunmen, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

National Security

US condemns deadly Taliban attack in Afghanistan

Washington Examiner · January 18, 2014 10:37 pm

A Thin Camo Line

Geoffrey Norman · January 16, 2014 3:37 pm

Afghan farmers collect raw opium as they work in a poppy field in Khogyani district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Drug trade threatens to undermine U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, inspector general warns

Michal Conger · January 15, 2014 5:00 am

GOP chairman seeks Afghan detainee names

Washington Examiner · January 14, 2014 9:43 pm

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, left, and President Barack Obama, smile at the end of their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Obama: Robert Gates a ‘good friend’

Brian Hughes · January 13, 2014 5:00 am