Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the peak of the war in Afghanistan, following President Barack Obama’s troop surge in late 2009, about 110,000 service members ...

Landmines and other explosives left behind after decades of war killed at least 92 people and injured 379 others in Afghanistan last year.

The closest analogue for the American invasion of Afghanistan was the Soviet one 20-odd years earlier. Unlike the Soviets, American troops went in initially as invading forces, whereas the Soviets ...

THAT'S ALL THE TIME THAT STOOD BETWEEN THE HORRIFIC EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001, AND THE FIRST AMERICANS SETTING FOOT IN AFGHANISTAN ON OCTOBER 19th. 7,255 DAYS LATER THE LAST AMERICAN MILITARY ...

U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, demoralizing and at times ...

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (KGO) -- First, we had the conflict. Now, as the Taliban takes over Afghanistan, we're hearing from the still-conflicted. "I am one of many," said Jordan Stevenson. He drove all the ...

Speaking at Pakistan’s National Assembly on Monday, Asif said that Islamabad’s motive to be a part of the wars was driven by ...

Dewey Yopp, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, was sent to Afghanistan in 2002 to train up a new Afghan army during the early days of the war in Afghanistan. He met Amir, his then-18-year-old ...

ABC's Mike Gudgell on the first Army journalist killed in Afghan war. COMBAT OUTPOST JFM, Afghanistan, July 3, 2010 — -- The Arghandab River runs from the foothills of the Hindu Kush Mountains ...

At the peak of the war in Afghanistan, following President Barack Obama's troop surge in late 2009, about 110,000 service members were deployed to the country at a given time. At least some of those ...