Tag: Afghanistan

Afghan candidate warns of unrest amid vote dispute

Afghan candidate warns of unrest amid vote dispute

Jason Straziuso · September 6, 2014 3:05 pm

Flight plan dispute puts plane on ground in Iran

National Security

Flight plan dispute puts plane on ground in Iran

Washington Examiner · September 6, 2014 12:44 am

Hayes: Don’t Bet on a Muscular Obama Foreign Policy

TWS Podcast · September 5, 2014 7:14 pm

The first page of the report released by U.S. Central Command Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, on the friendly fire incident in Afghanistan in June is photographed in Washington on Sept. 4, 2014. Avoidable miscommunication between U.S. air and ground forces led to a incident that killed five U.S. soldiers and one Afghan. The report cited a collective failure by soldiers, commanders and air crew members to execute the fundamentals of the mission. As a result, the five Americans and one Afghan were mistaken for the enemy and were attacked with two laser-guided bombs from a B-1 bomber. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

National Security

Miscommunication blamed for deadly US mistake

Robert Burns · September 5, 2014 3:22 pm

No formal plan to fight ISIS at NATO summit

No formal plan to fight ISIS at NATO summit

Susan Crabtree · September 5, 2014 9:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks with British Prime Minister David Cameron as NATO leaders meet regarding Afghanistan at the NATO summit at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. From left are, Secretary of State John Kerry, the president, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Uncertainty of Afghan election clouds NATO summit

Lolita Baldor · September 4, 2014 7:20 pm

Iraqi security forces hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during an operation outside Amirli, some 105 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. (AP Photo)

Ignorance fuels the calls for war

Steve Chapman · September 4, 2014 6:51 pm

The Forgotten War

Geoffrey Norman · September 4, 2014 4:31 pm

Afghan security forces stand guard near the dead bodies of Taliban fighters in Ghazni, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The Taliban struck a government compound in eastern Afghanistan early on Thursday in an attack that included two suicide truck bombings and left at least 12 people dead, including several off duty policemen asleep in their quarters nearby, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

Taliban hit Afghan government HQ in east, kill 12

Washington Examiner · September 4, 2014 11:29 am

On Aug. 8, a bipartisan letter signed by Congressional leaders expressed "serious concerns" about the obstacles inspectors general continue to face. (iStock)

Inspectors in Afghanistan face ‘obstructionism’ from U.S. officials

Richard Pollock · September 3, 2014 9:32 pm

FILE - This April 30, 2014 file photo shows Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers standing guard during a military exercise on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan National Security Forces depend exclusively on billions of dollars in funding from the US and its allies, money that is now at risk after President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign a security agreement to keep a small U.S. force of trainers in the country after the NATO-led coalition ends its mission and withdraws at the end of the year. Alongside the exodus of US troops from Afghanistan before the end of the year, soldiers who hail from countries like Singapore and Slovenia, Mongolia and Malaysia have been packing up too, leaving behind an ever-shrinking NATO coalition. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

National Security

NATO coalition in Afghanistan shrinking

Deb Riechmann · September 2, 2014 10:44 pm

Afghan officials can't account for $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid to their country's military and security forces, according to the Pentagon's inspector general. (iStock image)

Billions in U.S. aid can’t be accounted for by Afghan officials

Mark Tapscott · September 2, 2014 9:00 am