COLUMBUS, Ohio — 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, ...

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 withdrawal from ...

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A number of current and former Australian military commanders have had their medals stripped following allegations of war crimes committed during the Afghanistan War, Australian Defense Minister, ...

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.

Dewey Yopp, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, was sent to Afghanistan in 2002 to train up a new Afghan army during the early days of the war in Afghanistan. He met Amir, his then-18-year-old ...