Tag: Afghanistan

Obama faces narrowing window to score foreign policy successes

National Security

Obama faces narrowing window to score foreign policy successes

Susan Crabtree · December 28, 2014 10:00 am

Poll: Most Americans want to fight ISIS, but predict a prolonged conflict

Red Alert Politics

Poll: Most Americans want to fight ISIS, but predict a prolonged conflict

Maria Santos · December 26, 2014 4:27 pm

Obama Promises to End ‘Combat Mission’ in Afghanistan ‘Next Week’

Obama Promises to End ‘Combat Mission’ in Afghanistan ‘Next Week’

Daniel Halper · December 26, 2014 11:57 am

Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain said Sunday that defenders of extreme interrogation techniques were conducting a "rewriting of history." (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

National Security

John McCain meeting with Afghan president

Zack Colman · December 25, 2014 4:25 pm

U.S. soldiers board an Army Chinook transport helicopter after it brought fresh soldiers and supplies to the Korengal Outpost on October 27, 2008 in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. (Photo by John Moore/Getty images)

National Security

Cost of 13 years of war: $1.6 trillion

Kelly Cohen · December 23, 2014 6:24 pm

Times: Taliban On the Move Absent American Troops

Michael Warren · December 23, 2014 1:04 pm

The Taliban’s Media Campaign

The Taliban’s Media Campaign

Geoffrey Norman · December 22, 2014 5:27 pm

President Obama addresses a gathering of military members and families Dec.15, 2014, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, in Wrightstown, N.J. Obama's approval rating among active-duty service members has plummeted to 15 percent this year, according to a new poll.Â (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Military members give Obama 15 percent approval rating

Brian Hughes · December 22, 2014 4:02 pm

In this photo reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, a prisoner walks through a communal pod inside an area of the Guantanamo Bay detention center known as Camp 6, an area for prisoners who are considered "highly compliant" with the rules, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Saturday, June 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Ben Fox)

National Security

Gitmo releasing four more prisoners

Kelly Cohen · December 20, 2014 5:33 pm

School attack should be wake-up call for Pakistan, experts say

School attack should be wake-up call for Pakistan, experts say

Susan Crabtree · December 18, 2014 10:00 am

Afghan women listen during an animal husbandry class on September 8, 2011 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The program is run by the Afghan Women Rights Organization and is aimed at educating women on ways to raise their household income. The program is funded by the U.S. Ambassador's Small Grants Program (ASGP) and USAID. (Photo by John Moore/Getty images)

National Security

Officials don’t know if U.S.-funded efforts for Afghan women are working

Sarah Bedford · December 18, 2014 10:00 am

People carry the casket of a victim of Taliban attack in a school, after receiving it from a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen stormed a military school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing and wounding dozens, officials said, in the latest militant violence to hit the already troubled region. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

National Security

WH dodges questions on Taliban strength

Susan Crabtree · December 17, 2014 1:02 pm