WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department fired more than 1,300 employees on Friday in line with a dramatic reorganization ...

At the White House, Kayani met with national security staff in the Roosevelt Room. "By design, Obama dropped by, feigning ...

The Obama administration's 2014 swap of five Taliban prisoners for deserter Bowe Bergdahl helped lead to the current crisis in Afghanistan. AFP/Getty Images As his hasty Afghanistan exit looms ...

With U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan lasting two decades, four presidents share at least some portion of the blame for last week’s deadly Kabul disaster, a retired Army general says.

Here is a glimpse of Obama’s legacy in Afghanistan, and what the president is bequeathing President-elect Donald Trump. What did Obama pledge to do?

Despite his relentless efforts to curb the Afghan insurgency, Obama never actually got a grip on the situation. Experts say he's leaving behind a huge mess in Afghanistan that won't be easy for ...

President Obama came to office vowing to end America's foreign wars and take the country off its permanent war footing. He leaves a very different legacy as he prepares to hand his commander-in ...

President Barack Obama has reduced U.S. military fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan over nearly eight years in office. But for every American soldier he brought home, opposition forces grew stronger ...

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 ...

President Obama announced Wednesday a 14 percent drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, telling reporters that about 8,400 American troops will remain in the country at the year's end -- a higher ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will slow its troop drawdown in Afghanistan, leaving a force of 8,400 when President Barack Obama completes his term, the president announced Wednesday in a blunt ...