Tag: Afghanistan

Fire consumes an arch-span building at Afghan National Army Brigade Camp Sayar in Afghanistan in 2012. The incident report on the fire said the building, which was 85 percent complete, burned in 30 minutes. (Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers via SIGAR)

National Security

Another $1.5 billion that may go up in smoke in Afghanistan

Kelly Cohen · July 18, 2014 6:30 pm

A wounded Afghan security personnel speaks on a phone during clashes with Taliban fighters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 17, 2014. Gunmen launched a pre-dawn attack on the Kabul International Airport in the Afghan capital on Thursday, raining down rockets, setting off a gunbattle with security forces and forcing the airport to close for hours, officials said. The militants occupied two buildings which were under construction some 700 meters (yards) north of the facility, and were using them as a base to direct rockets and gunfire toward the airport and international jet fighters flying over Kabul, said Afghan army Gen. Afzal Aman. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan ballot audit starts; Kabul airport attacked

Amir Shah · July 17, 2014 10:25 pm

US military didn’t seek Afghan pullout in 2017

US military didn’t seek Afghan pullout in 2017

Lolita Baldor · July 17, 2014 9:15 pm

An Afghan Air Force C-130 sits on the flightline at Afghanistan's Kabul International Airport in April. (Photo: SIGAR)

National Security

The U.S. is about to give $100 million worth of cargo planes to a country that may not need them

Kelly Cohen · July 17, 2014 9:00 am

Then-Capt. Doug Zembiec gives orders to his men over a radio prior to leaving their secured compound for a short patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. (AP/U.S. Marine Corps. via The Albuquerque Journal, Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)

Beltway Confidential

Heroic Marine, nicknamed ‘Lion of Fallujah,’ finally honored for CIA service

Blake Seitz · July 16, 2014 5:05 pm

Raw: Deadly Insurgent Attack Hits Afghanistan

Raw: Deadly Insurgent Attack Hits Afghanistan

Washington Examiner · July 16, 2014 1:07 pm

Afghanistan's security forces and civilians walk at the site of a suicide attack in the Urgun area of Paktika province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The attack near a busy market and a mosque killed at least 89 people in the deadliest insurgent attack on civilians since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Pajhwok News Agency)

89 killed in worst Afghanistan bombing since 2001

Rahim Faiez · July 16, 2014 1:01 am

Afghan presidential candidate and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his residence in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 14, 2014. Ahmadzai said that a U.S.-brokered deal for a full ballot audit pulled the country back from the brink and put government legitimacy back on track. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Vote deal will work, Afghan candidate tells AP

John Daniszewski · July 14, 2014 10:48 pm

National Security

VIDEO: Bowe Bergdahl returns to active service

Ed Sykes · July 14, 2014 4:24 pm

Ahmad Yousuf Nouristani, chairman of Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC), center, speaks during a joint press conference as Jan Kubis, United Nation representative for Afghanistan, left, and Abdul Satar Saadat, chief of Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission, listen at the IEC office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Welcoming an agreement between the two top candidates brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the United Nations, Afghanistan's election commission hopes to finish an audit of 23,000 polling stations within three weeks. (AP photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghans express relief at election deal

JOHN DANISZEWSKIRAHIM FAIEZ · July 13, 2014 6:04 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Afghanistan's presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani, centre, and Abdulah Abdullah hold their arms in the air together after announcing a deal for the auditing of all Afghan election votes at the United Nations Compound in Kabul, Saturday, July 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

Afghan rivals clinch deal, easing political crisis

Bradley Klapper · July 13, 2014 3:29 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, centre, talks with Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs chief of protocol Ambassador Hamid Siddiq, as Kerry arrives at Kabul International airport in Kabul, Friday July 11, 2014. Kerry is expected to meet with Afghanistan's President Kharzai as well as both candidates in Afghanistan's recent presidential election. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

National Security

US struggles to resolve Afghan election crisis

Bradley Klapper · July 11, 2014 8:08 pm