Obama said, "I want everybody to know, in this country and across the region: America's commitment to the people of Afghanistan will endure." After making a secret overnight flight from Washington ...

Barack Obama Obama missed Afghanistan ‘transition’ opportunity, retired Army general says The death of Usama bin Laden was likely the point where the U.S. should have started leaving ...

President Obama will hand off the 15-year-old war in Afghanistan to a third president, he said Wednesday, acknowledging that he will fall short of his campaign-era promise to extract the U.S. from ...

In President Obama's Afghanistan speech, he announced Tuesday night that he will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But he's already decided to start bringing them back by mid-2011.

President Obama was in Afghanistan today -- an unannounced trip that was kept secret for security purposes until he landed. We've been updating this post as the news developed.

Obama planned to be on the ground for about seven hours in Afghanistan, where the United States has been engaged in war for more than a decade following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

President Obama has abandoned his plan to withdraw nearly all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, saying Thursday that he will keep a force of 9,800 in the country for most of next year and a contingent ...

In a new memoir, former defence secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Barack Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 ...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — President Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday for an ­unannounced visit to mark ­Memorial Day with U.S. troops, now in the final months of America's longest ...

Bob Woodward’s book, “Obama’s Wars,” underscores just how vociferous and personal the arguments over the war in Afghanistan have been within the administration.

President Obama has made the steady withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan a top priority for his second term, but his decision Tuesday to change course and slow the drawdown reflects a ...