Writer, geo-strategist and "asymmetric war" specialist Gèrard Chaliand spends several months a year in Afghanistan, notably for the Center ...

The terrorists hate us because we're better people. Of the women veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who have walked into a VA facility, 15 percent have screened positive...

When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news are over," her words framed what looked like a lament, but her recent deeds make them seem like a threat. ...

    Barack Obama is betraying his promise of change and is in danger of becoming just another political hack.     Yes, just...

Times OnlineBritish soldier killed by bomb in AfghanistanTimes Online - 34 minutes agoA British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan's Helmand province, the...

There's some understandable skepticism about the idea that sending more troops to Afghanistan is the right way to go, but stories like this one about how a newfound...

Christoph von Marschall, the Washington bureau chief of the Berlin-based newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, wrote in Sunday's Washington Post about the "dirty little secret" of...

Sen. Barack Obama, on his first and likely only overseas trip as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has remade the campaign's foreign policy playing field,...

We'd like to introduce the Vets for Freedom NewsLadder. Like all the NewsLadders that are up and running, this is a great place to find out all about an issue on one...

Thought Leader. If you are a traditionalist and are expecting the usual treatise to counterinsurgency then you will be disappointed. This is an out of the box approach...

"NOW" on PBS provides an amazingly insightful view of the war in Afghanistan (thanks to embedded producer Bill Gentile) that is now available for free viewing on...

July 22, 2008A McCain TV ad says Obama "voted against funding our troops." He did, once. Every other time he voted in favor.SummaryThe McCain...

Today on Good Morning America, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) refused to call the situation in Afghanistan “precarious and urgent,” but admitted that “We have...

    If his controversial company exits the private security business, Blackwater President Gary Jackson wants you to know exactly who's to blame: "If...

John Nichols: Running for president is a perilous endeavor. Candidates make mistakes. And Barack Obama is making a serious mistake this weekend. As he tours Afghanistan,...

Barack Obama's on a whirlwind unprecedented diplomatic world tour. After Iraq, he heads to Afghanistan and Germany, all the while advised by a mindblowingly huge team of...

After a whirlwind tour of Afghanistan and Iraq, Barack Obama has met with U.S. reporters in Amman, Jordan, before meeting the king and then flying on to Israel. The...

When Cpl. Jason Bogar was killed in action in Afghanistan, he left behind a family in Seattle — and a wide-ranging record of his tours of duty. Bogar took numerous...

    Basra - Gordon Brown prepared the ground for a historic realignment in the "war on terror" yesterday by setting out a four-point plan for...

    Herat, Afghanistan - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces backed by airpower have killed or wounded more than 30 Taliban insurgents in fighting...