A 17-year investigation into the U.S. reconstruction of Afghanistan found $29.2 billion in waste, fraud and abuse.

The audit is the first summary of the totality of 20 years of oversight work by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan ...

October 7, 2001 – Operation Enduring Freedom begins. US President George W. Bush announces that US and British forces have begun airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan. Airstrikes ...

Almost nine years after the U.S. first invaded Afghanistan, American and British pundits are turning increasingly pessimistic about our prospects for victory there, whatever that victory may mean. On ...

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 ...

How did Afghanistan go from being Ronald Reagan’s “Nation of Heroes” to Donald Trump’s “Hellhole on Earth”? How did Afghans go from honored White House guests to immigrants blamed wholesale for the ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... No one ever accused President Donald Trump of being a systematic thinker. Were not the potential consequences so great, the obvious response ...

Lebovic, James H., Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan (United States: Oxford University Press, 2019). Malkasian, Carter, The American War in Afghanistan: A History. United ...

“Bodyguard of Lies,” a documentary examining the deceit that drove the longest war in American history, takes its title from a Winston Churchill line: “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should ...

For a generation that lived the war in Afghanistan one grid square at a time, the war now feels like a series of dots on a map. A patrol base carved out of hardpan soil. A culvert on a highway that ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. Department of State has facilitated the evacuation of four U.S. citizens across one of Afghanistan's land borders -- the first Americans to leave the country with help ...

After deadly cross-border military clashes, the Pakistani and Afghan governments have locked their populations in a trade war ...