KABUL, Afghanistan — Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents ratcheted up violence wit… Read more: Video, Afghan Deaths, Afghanistan, Afghan War, Civilian Causalities, Un, Afghanistan Civilian Deaths, Afghanistan War, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO will carry out nighttime kill-and-capture raids against suspected insurgents with increased participation from Afghan … Read more: Hamid Karzai, Video, Nato, NATO Raids, Afghanistan Raids, Afghanistan, Carsten Jacobson, Afpak, Afghanistan Night Raids, World News

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) – After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have … Read more: Video, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Middle East, Nato, Guantanamo Bay, Obama Administration, Taliban, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO will carry out nighttime kill-and-capture raids that target suspected insurgents with increased Afghan partnership, after repeated protests by President Hamid Karzai, the alliance said Monday. Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military Family News Veterans News

WASHINGTON — Behind the debate over the speed and scope of the Obama administration’s promised troop drawdown from Afghanistan is a complex calculation of how a reduced U.S. military presence would affect prospects for negotiations. President Obama is due to announce his decision on troop reductions on Wednesday, ahead of his scheduled visit on Thursday [...]

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents firing heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles killed 35 workers and guards in an attack on a NATO-funded road construction site in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan, authorities said Thursday. More than 100 fighters carried out the assault in Wazei Zadran in a mountainous region of Paktia province [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan — Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, some analysts are speculating that al-Qaeda and its Afghan Taliban allies could go their separate ways, increasing the chances for a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden’s death is likely to revive a debate within the Afghan Taliban about their ties to al-Qaida – [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters late last week that he thinks we may turn the corner at the end of this year in Afghanistan. Again. Turning the corner, or the tide, or the momentum, or what have you, has become a semi-annual ritual in the failing U.S. war in Afghanistan. While all these turned [...]

The Obama administration reportedly says we can no longer make women’s rights a priority in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, former President George W. Bush says we have to stay and fight in Afghanistan to help women gain rights. While the fighting over the fighting in Afghanistan continues, it’s time we looked at prioritizing “women’s rights” around the [...]