Gardez, Afghanistan News

A Wall Street Journal columnist drew some heat on Tuesday for declaring that recent investigations into sexual assault in the military were nothing more than a "war on men."

Understanding America's foreign policy can be an impossible task, even for those in the know.

DISTRICT STABILITY PLATFORM MIRI, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai's announcement Tuesday that Afghan forces have taken over the lead from the U.S.-led NATO coalition comes as Afghans show increasing signs of confidence in their ability to defend their nation.

In the days after the Osama bin Laden assassination, the group that carried it out - part of the Joint Special Operations Command - emerged from the shadows to become feted as national heroes.

Jeremy Scahill, center, in Somalia in the documentary "Dirty Wars," which he wrote with David Riker, in an undated handout image.

When the unthinkable occurred on September 11, 2001, there were three immediate questions: "Who did this?", "Where do we fight them?" and "How do we make sure this never happens again?" Though there hasn't been a major terrorist attack by al-Qaeda on American soil since that day, it is very difficult to argue that the U.S. government's answers to ... (more)

Jeremy Scahill in A A'Dirty Wars,A which plays out like something of a murder mystery.

An Afghan quick-reaction force killed 20 enemy fighters and detained another while responding to an attack on a local police checkpoint in the Orgun-e district of Afghanistan's Paktika province yesterday, military officials reported.

An Afghan National Army soldier stands outside Combat Outpost Boston before a joint patrol with U.S. soldiers from 3/1 AD Task Force Bulldog in a village in Kherwar district in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan, May 20, 2012.

KABUL: At Least six Taliban militants were killed in a twin air-attack by ISAF choppers in Zurmat district of Paktiya in Afghanistan, according to officials.

Documentarians are generally to the left of center politically. Think of Michael Moore, who has attacked corporations like General Motors and the Congress for refusing to insure our medical health as do European nations.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Haqqani network leader and seven other insurgents during an operation in the Gardez district of Afghanistan's Paktia province today, military officials reported.

Memorial Day commemorates those who were killed while servicing in the armed forces, but Brian Castner hopes that we will remember those who survived injuries but might not have if not for bomb suits, armors, and other advances.

Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York addressed the latest case at West Point.