Well, it’s Friday. This is a special edition of the Pentagon Rundown in which we will look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise that the latest Defense Department review of the U.S. military’s ...

Declassified documents reveal what John Howard's cabinet considered, and ignored, when sending troops to Afghanistan.

In 2019, an improvised explosive device ripped through a US Army patrol in Afghanistan, leaving combat cameraman Ian Ives with life-changing injuries. Now a civilian public affairs officer, Ives walks ...

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 ...

82nd Airborne soldiers prepare to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/Air Force) The ...

When the congressionally appointed Afghanistan War Commission holds its first public hearing on Friday, witnesses will convene in a location chosen to send a message: the Washington, D.C., ...

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 ...

During his 2012 re-election campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to "end the war in Afghanistan in 2014." As straightforward as that might sound, disentangling U.S. involvement in Afghanistan ...

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 ...

President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan over Memorial Day weekend to thank the American troops stationed there. He also told them that "by the end of this year, ...

Last week the bipartisan Afghanistan War Commission held its first public hearing since it was established in 2021, with members of the foreign policy great-and-good offering testimony on the origins ...

ABC News' Mike and Carlos Boettcher embedded with 101st Airborne Division. May 24, 2014— -- The Kunar province was home to some of the most brutal fighting in the Afghanistan War, and for the ...