AP: A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base close to the Pakistan border killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years.
AP: President Bush on Monday signed a $162 billion war spending plan to pay for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan until the next president takes office.
Notre Dame High School in Niles has set up 4,637 flags for members of the Armed Forces who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Live Streaming by Ustream.TV Newsbusters: There are over 180,000 U.S. troops serving bravely in Iraq and Afghanistan and each of them are owed a great deal of gratitude for their service and sacrifice. It’s a first of its kind Web-A-Thon
AP: President Bush left the White House Monday morning for a trip to Europe. While there he’ll meet with leaders to discuss Afghanistan, the economy and more.
AP: President Bush urged Congress Thursday to pass a war funding bill that does not ‘tie the hands’ of U.S. commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
AP: In videos shown to a jury Friday, men accused of plotting to bring down jetliners over the Atlantic called for revenge for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and praised Osama bin Laden. The men were arrested in 2006.
MSNBC: The Pentagon will issue hand-held lie detectors this month to U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, pushing to the battlefront a century-old debate over the accuracy of the polygraph.
AP: President Bush on Thursday ordered an indefinite halt in U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq after July. Bush also announced he will seek to relieve the heavy strain on the Army by reducing the length of combat tours in Iraq
New video shows Prince Harry patrolling Afghanistan with British troops. The Drudge Report broke news that British media was under embargo from releasing this information.
MIAMI (AP) – Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive “dirty bomb,” was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don’t mention those initial allegations. The sentence imposed
Paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fits and starts undermines military planning and risks gains made by U.S. troops over the past year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
[dailymotion 4Gp6QRXZycQxUjrgj nolink] Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, he brought up Afghanistan and said, “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops
http://player.clipsyndicate.com/main/player?playlist_id=1806&clip_id=674287&cpt=8& In a new video, California native Adam Yehiye Gadahn demands the United States end involvement in all Muslim countries. “Your failure to heed our demands … means that you and your people will … experience things which will make
