Tag: Afghanistan

Washington Secrets

Military ‘studs’ for ‘sale’ at embassy auction

Paul Bedard · January 13, 2014 5:00 am

National Security

Robert Gates: No regrets in writing tell-all book

Sean Lengell · January 12, 2014 5:00 am

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is continuing to resist Obama administration efforts to persuade him to sign an agreement as soon as possible on the parameters of a post-war relationship. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Afghan leader Hamid Karzai unlikely to sign post-war pact with US before April

Susan Crabtree · January 10, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this May 1, 2009, file photo, an Afghan man looks on as U.S. solider's of 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division stands guard during a search operation in Nerkh district of Wardak province in west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A burst of strength by al-Qaida that is chipping away at the remains of Mideast stability now confronts President Barack Obama, testing his hands-off approach to conflicts in Iraq and Syria at the same time he pushes to keep thousands of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Obama has already decided the fight against extremists must continue, so long as Afghan President Hamid Karzai signs off on a joint security agreement. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

War policies tested from Mideast, Afghanistan

JULIE PACELARA JAKES · January 7, 2014 11:46 pm

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a new memoir says that President Obama lost faith in his blueprint for Afghanistan, part of a blistering critique of the Obama administration from the one-time leader of the Pentagon. (Getty images)

Robert Gates rips Obama, Joe Biden in new book

Brian Hughes · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Red Alert Politics

[WATCH] Rep. Peter King: Rand Paul doesn’t deserve to be in the U.S. Senate

Melissa Quinn · January 6, 2014 4:29 pm

Afghanistan: Last Year; First KIA

Geoffrey Norman · January 6, 2014 12:24 pm

U.S. Major General James C. McConville, center, walks with troops at a base in Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 24. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

National Security

2014 will be the year of reckoning for post-war Afghanistan

Tim Mak · January 5, 2014 5:00 am

Afghanistan: Dim Outlook & Low Approval

Geoffrey Norman · December 31, 2013 7:45 pm

In this Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AP/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour)

‘Black swans’ to watch out for in 2014

James Jay Carafano · December 29, 2013 5:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Gov. Nikki Haley gets a gun for Christmas

Melissa Quinn · December 26, 2013 4:40 pm

The loading area for incinerators at Forward Operating Base Sharana was so narrow that they wouldÃÂ have required manual labor to load and unload waste, and the incinerators were so poorly constructed that even when fixed, they would have run only at partial capacity.ÃÂ

Energy and Environment

US tax dollars going up in smoke at Afghanistan base trash incinerators

Michal Conger · December 16, 2013 5:00 am