President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday as his administration plans to end the nation's longest war at the end of this year, and faces intense criticism over the medical ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Obama: Out of Afghanistan in 2014 The trip was not announced before the president was on the ground at Bagram Air Base.

President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed an agreement that provides a framework for a lasting U.S. commitment to Afghanistan after the long and unpopular war comes to an end.

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 ...

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. Hit your "refresh ...

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 ...

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.

Barack Obama and Afghanistan: The inside story of a war the President never wanted A new book by former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is a damning indictment the war. The Watergate reporter ...