Los Angeles Times

Veterans’ voices shape a report on the Afghanistan war’s lessons and effects

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, ...

Trump outrages NATO allies with remarks on war in Afghanistan

European veterans, families of the fallen, and politicians are voicing outrage over Trump's claim NATO allies stayed behind ...
Military.com

'What Was the Point of All of It?': Commission Probing Afghan War Hears from Veterans

As the fourth anniversary of the fall of Kabul approaches, the congressionally chartered commission studying all 20 years of the war in Afghanistan heard from veterans Tuesday about their experiences ...
Observer

Afghanistan’s War Rugs Weave a Knotty History at the British Museum

War rugs blur the line between artifact and artwork, offering a form of vernacular expression that questions authorship, intention and audience. © The Trustees of ...
NPR

Part of the U.S. strategy in 20 years of war in Afghanistan? Weakening poppies

In an exclusive Washington Post story, reporter Warren Strobel describes a CIA operation in Afghanistan over the course of about a decade. The goal was to degrade the country's opium crop. It has been ...
Military Times

Veterans’ voices shape report on the Afghanistan War’s lessons, impact

U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), walk as a U.S. Chinook helicopter is seen on the back ground in Shindand, Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan ...