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Attackers in Afghanistan wore US uniforms
Coalition military authorities in Afghanistan say the insurgents who attacked a British airfield in southwestern Afghanistan on Friday, killing two U.
As new vets go online, VA and others follow
Busy, tech-savvy and often miles from their peers, thousands of new veterans are going online to find camaraderie or get their questions answered — ...
UK military: No plan to end Harry's Afghan tour
Britain says it doesn't plan to cut short Prince Harry's deployment to Afghanistan, despite the Taliban attack on the base where he is stationed.
2 Marines killed in attack in southern Afghanistan
Heavily armed insurgents attacked a British air base in southern Afghanistan Friday, killing two U.S. Marines and wounding several other troops, U.S.
Hundreds of angry Afghans protest anti-Islam film
Hundreds of Afghans — some shouting "Death to America" — burned the U.S. flag and an effigy of President Barack Obama on Friday during a protest ...
Bus collides with truck, killing 51 in Afghanistan
A bus and truck collided and burst into flames in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 51 people. The collision occurred in Ghazni province ...
Farmers angry at counterterror tactic in Pakistan
Pakistan's effort to cut off the flow of fertilizer to militants using it to make bombs in this key tribal sanctuary along the Afghan border has ...
Afghan president postpones trip over prophet film
The Afghan president canceled his official visit to Norway amid concerns following Mideast riots over a film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad, ...
Report: US strikes on Iran would risk major war
U.S. military strikes on Iran would shake the regime's political control and damage its ability to launch counterstrikes, but the Iranians probably ...
Perceived insults to Islam trigger Muslim anger
Muslim anger over perceived Western insults to Islam has exploded several times, most recently in protests this week against U.S. diplomatic posts in ...
Generals deny trying to stop Afghan hospital probe
Two U.S. generals denied Wednesday that they tried to stop an inspector general's investigation in 2010 into corruption and patient neglect at a U.S.
Smaller memorials on 11th anniversary of 9/11
There were still the tearful messages to loved ones, clutches of photos and flowers, and moments of silence. But 11 years after Sept. 11, Americans ...
Partisan jibes on hold for 9/11 _ but not politics
President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney declared a fleeting truce for partisan digs Tuesday as the nation remembered the 9/11 terrorist ...
Congress courts veterans leading up to election
Both parties are using a brief pre-election session of Congress to make campaign appeals to returning veterans. Senate Democrats are pushing President ...
Dead prisoner had troubled history at Guantanamo
The latest prisoner to die at the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba, was identified Tuesday as a Yemeni man with a history of mental illness who battled ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Afghanistan
The issue: U.S. troops are still in Afghanistan, nearly 11 years after they invaded. Why? The answer boils down to one word: al-Qaida. The goal is to ...
Base attack kills 3 Afghans, destroys NATO chopper
Afghan insurgents bombarded a U.S. base and destroyed a NATO helicopter, killing three Afghan intelligence employees, officials said Tuesday.
Family signs line roads to welcome Marines home
Days before Lance Cpl. Kenny Milton was scheduled to return home from Afghanistan, his wife sat on the floor of a sweltering helicopter hangar, ...
For once, 9/11 attacks play small role in election
For the first time in a decade, the Sept. 11 attacks and the wars that resulted are not the focus of the presidential campaign. President Barack ...
Car bomb kills 12 Shiites in northwest Pakistan
A car bomb ripped through a crowded market in a Pakistani tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Monday, killing 12 Shiite Muslims in the latest ...
US, Afghans locked in dispute over detainees
President Hamid Karzai welcomed Monday's handover of the main American-run prison to Afghan forces as a victory for Afghan sovereignty, though he and ...
US watchdog questions spending for Afghan army
The watchdog for U.S. spending in Afghanistan says lax accountability in a $1.1 billion program supplying fuel to the Afghan National Army needs ...
War-weary US is numbed to drumbeat of troop deaths
It was another week at war in Afghanistan, another string of American casualties, and another collective shrug by a nation weary of a faraway conflict ...
Pakistan ends weeks of fighting; over 100 dead
Pakistani security forces pushed Taliban militants who came from Afghanistan back across the border after more than two weeks of fighting in a ...
Bombs kill 1, wound 16 in western Afghanistan
Afghan authorities say two bomb blasts near the governor's compound in a western province have killed a 12-year-old boy and wounded 16 other civilians