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Turkey: NATO to survey sites for Patriot missiles
Turkey's military says a delegation of Turkish and NATO officials will start surveying sites for the possible deployment of Patriot missiles on ...
Afghan police: Student killed in university clash
Sunni and Shiite students clashed at Kabul University on a Shiite holy day Saturday, and Afghan authorities say that one person was killed. Gen.
Iran criticizes Turkish request for Patriots
Iran lashed out Friday at Turkey for requesting that NATO supply it with Patriot surface-to-air missiles to deploy along the border with Syria, ...
Afghan suicide attack kills 3, wounds more than 90
A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives Friday in eastern Afghanistan, killing three Afghan civilians and wounding more than 90 ...
Deployment of Patriots to Turkey could take weeks
Even if NATO quickly approves Turkey's request for the deployment of Patriot missiles on its border with Syria, winning parliamentary approval, ...
NATO: Turkey wants use of Patriot missiles
Turkey's government requested the deployment of NATO's Patriot surface-to-air missiles Wednesday to bolster its defenses along its border with Syria ...
Gen. Allen resumes command duty in Afghanistan
Gen. John Allen has returned to Kabul to resume his duties as the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, more than a week after the ...
Afghan revolving door: 5 US generals, 5 years
For former CIA director David Petraeus, it was a one-year stint as top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. His replacement is scheduled to leave next year ...
Commanders of NATO-led force in Afghanistan
A look at commanders of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force since invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001. Lt. Gen. John McColl, ...
Faster than NATO, France ends Afghan combat role
France on Tuesday ended its combat operations in Afghanistan, pulling hundreds of troops from a base in a volatile region northeast of Kabul and ...
Turkey to soon request Patriots from NATO
Turkey's foreign minister says his country will soon make a formal request to NATO for Patriot missiles to bolster anti-aircraft defenses along its ...
Syrian Islamists reject Western-backed opposition
Syria's increasingly powerful Islamist rebel factions rejected the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declared an ...
Germany: Turkey will ask NATO for Patriot missiles
Germany's defense minister said Monday he expects Turkey to make a formal request to NATO for Patriot missiles to bolster anti-aircraft defenses along ...
Questions on sex scandal: Top officials testify
Top national security officials trudged to Capitol Hill on Thursday to grapple with fallout from the David Petraeus sex scandal as Defense Secretary ...
Police test Afghanistan's fragile ethnic balance
Patrolling in all-terrain vehicles that whip up clouds of dust, members of Afghanistan's elite Civil Order Police might be viewed as outsiders here ...
Afghan police: 2 NATO interpreters killed
Afghan police say Taliban insurgents have shot and killed two young Afghan men who were working as translators for NATO forces. Din Mohammad Darwesh, ...
Poll: Most Afghans optimistic about future
Most Afghans believe their country is headed in the right direction but still worry about the lack of security resulting from the 11-year war, a ...
Scandal widens; US general's emails 'flirtatious'
The sex scandal that felled CIA Director David Petraeus widened Tuesday to ensnare the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, in a ...
The curse of commanding the Afghan war
A look at what went wrong for the four U.S. generals who have led U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan since 2008: Gen. David McKiernan, June 2008 to ...
France rules out any use of air power in Mali
Neither France nor Europe will intervene militarily to oust al-Qaida and its allies from northern Mali — not even with air strikes, the French defense ...
General investigated for emails to Petraeus friend
The career of Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is now in jeopardy due to the investigation of the David Petraeus sex scandal.
Gunman in Afghan uniform kills British soldier
A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform shot and killed a member of the U.S.-led coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan — the latest in a spate of ...
Soldier's insider attack story is part of training
Not a day goes by that Zach Camp doesn't replay that terrible August day over in his mind. Was there anything he could have done differently? Were ...