A U.S. offensive in Afghanistan. Al Franken heads to the Senate. Mark Sanford keeps talking. And unemployment keeps rising. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

For Memorial Day, we talk with veteran and scholar Andrew Bacevich about America, war, and the world: troops, leaders, and fateful choices.

Obama puts the brakes on photos of abuse. Health care and Wall Street get wake-up calls. An Afghan commander gets the boot. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

As Pakistan’s president comes to the White House, fears in Washington grow over Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and the Taliban. We’ll look at the loose-nuke threat on the Af-Pak front.

A new plan for Afghanistan. Pakistan, too. We’ll look at the Obama strategy and what it’s up against.

President Obama has announced his plan to end, he says, the war in Iraq – as he turns hard to Afghanistan. We’ll ask leading anti-war critics how they see Obama on war.

The education of an American soldier, from the battlefield of Afghanistan to the political battlefield at home.

Pulitzer Prize-winning defense writer Tom Ricks on the U.S. military’s lessons from Iraq – and challenge in Afghanistan.

Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command until last year, gives us his read on threats, and opportunities, now in the Middle East and beyond.

Obama’s national security team goes bipartisan. Will his policy? We’ll ask top analysts what kind of defense the country really needs.

On Veterans’ Day, we look at American women at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what a new generation of women in uniform has seen at the battlefront.

The last big issue: America’s wars. With one week to election day, we’ll look at McCain and Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan.

In Afghanistan: violence spiking and grim U.S. military and intelligence warnings of a return to chaos. We’ll look at Afghanistan sliding the wrong way.

Frontline dispatches from where the fighting never ends. New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins on Iraq, Afghanistan, and “The Forever War.”

With Senator Obama in Middle East, we look at what a President Obama’s real options would be in the tough terrain from Israel to Islamabad.

Markets in trouble. A call for more troops in Afghanistan. And Budweiser will no longer be American-owned. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

It’s going on seven years since the United States invaded Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11. But the news out of Afghanistan in the last couple of days and weeks hardly sounds like a wrap-up phase.
A giant jailbreak in the traditional southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. NATO forces rushed from Kabul to a [...]

Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring the sacrifices of American military men and women in war. On this Memorial Day, there is no shortage of sacrifice to consider.
In wars since 9/11, thousands have died. More than 400 in Afghanistan. More than 4,080 now in Iraq.
In March this year, when the U.S. military’s [...]

For most Americans, the sacrifices made by service men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan are — after all these years — still out of sight and far away.
For colleagues, for comrades in arms, those sacrifices are as close as a man’s last breath. A woman’s last word.
Memorial Day honors sacrifice across many generations. But [...]

For too many of us, it’s the forgotten war. High up along the rocky ridges of eastern Afghanistan, American soldiers are fighting a grueling fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. And they’re doing it the old-fashioned way: up close and personal.
In the Korengal Valley, one of the most dangerous places in the world for [...]