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Thanksgiving lunch is just a high caloric memory for the soldiers of Alpha Company, 4 th Brigade, 25 th Airborne Division, based at Combat Outpost Garbuz in eastern Afghanistan.   But it was memorable nonetheless.  Especially considering the place is pretty...

Committee, Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, and Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, will sound off on the future of U.S. policy in Afghanistan. CBS's "Face The Nation" will feature...

I t is striking to sit in the House of Commons during Question Period and watch how the big issues of the day are divvied up along gender lines. Consider two of the significant stories of this fall – the...

But now the frightened Afghan boy is back on the gurney at the same field hospital in festering Zhari district outside Kandahar...The doctor radios to Kandahar Airfield, begging for a helicopter – and the request is denied. Ten days earlier...

Canadian soldiers of the International Security Force watch a group of Afghan civilians being held for questioning near the site of an explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 12, 2008. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of Canadian troops that...