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 ...

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 Afghanistan, Obama said, the logic may work the other way around: “The absence of a time frame for transition would deny us any sense of urgency in working with the Afghan government.

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.

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.

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 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.

While in Afghanistan, Obama also released a statement on the election in Ukraine, which made clear the U.S. was not satisfied with continuing Russian intervention in the region.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...