During his recent speech in Kabul, President Obama sought to close the door on Afghanistan as an election-year issue. He congratulated the troops, hailed the progress that’s been made due to his leadership, and reiterated his promise to withdraw most troops by 2014. As the president got on Air Force One, the message was clear: You won’t be hearing much else from me on Afghanistan (except, perhaps, to tout the death of Osama bin Laden). (more)
KABUL – The US has been secretly releasing captured Taliban fighters from a detention center in Afghanistan in a bid to strengthen its hand in peace talks with the insurgent group, the Washington Post reported Monday. (more)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq. “We can see the light of a new day,” he said on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death and in the midst of his own re-election campaign. (more)
In this careening campaign season, it’s the biggest reversal of fortune yet. And it might be the most momentous development before Election Day. (more)
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday that he doesn’t lie. (more)
Bieber Fever has spread widely throughout the world, and apparently all the way to Marines stationed in Afghanistan. (more)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber and Taliban militants disguised in burqas attacked a compound housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said. The Taliban said the attack was a response to President Barack Obama’s surprise visit just hours earlier. (more)
A 92-year-old New York man is giving back to the troops in the most creative of ways. Hyman Strachman bootlegs newly released movies and ships them to American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. (more)
Mohammad Ashan, a Taliban commander in Paktika province in Afghanistan, must have really needed some money. (more)
Last year, as I served with the Army’s 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team in southern Afghanistan, I had the recurring thought that watching the first three seasons of “The Wire” was good preparation for understanding life in Zhari District of Kandahar Province. (more)
The Pentagon is looking into photographs of a soldier allegedly raising a gay pride rainbow flag at a base in Afghanistan. (more)
Two probes of the Afghan Air Force (AAF) conducted by the American-led military coalition and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration are currently underway, officials told the Wall Street Journal. (more)
In 2006, I was serving as a Marine infantryman in Ramadi, Iraq during some of the most intense combat of the Iraq War. Local relations were at a low point, and violence was at a high. Early in 2007, we witnessed the “Sunni Awakening.” The attitude around us changed overnight, and we were suddenly welcomed with tea and food by local leaders who in previous months had engaged our patrols with violence. This turn of events did not immediately end the conflict, but it did remove our Marines from the lead in the fighting. Local Iraqis now bore the brunt of the combat. The insurgency could no longer blame Americans for the absence of peace. It was now primarily an Iraqi problem. (more)
It was a golden opportunity for President Obama. He could make peace with conservatives in Congress, set the foundation for a bipartisan agenda in Washington and burnish his image as a man who led from the middle. He blew it. (more)
Earlier this year, Cpl. Philip McGeath was still alive. Today his smile is a cherished memory to his grieving mother. (more)
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