It has been over four years now since the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan. But even now, we are still learning new things about the 20-year U.S. presence there. Last week, The Washington Post broke ...

An Afghan man works on a poppy field in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Parwiz TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium ...

The US is deploying aggressive—and very public—methods these days in its war on international drugs. It's a sharp contrast to a secret tactic used years ago in Afghanistan that the Washington Post is ...

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 ...

Soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, ford a stream during a security patrol in the Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, Dec. 3, 2009.

Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control Good times, as they say, don’t last forever, especially when the achievements have been force-managed. For nearly three years, a Taliban ...