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The president urgently looked for a way out of the Afghanistan war last year, pressing top military advisers for an exit plan they never gave him, a new book by Bob Woodward reveals.

There was no sign of enemy fire, but the incident was under investigation, according to a NATO statement.

Platoon members charged with dismembering and photographing corpses, as well as hoarding a skull and other human bones, Army sources reveal.

From 3- and 4-year-olds used as human shields or to gather spent cartridges, to teen-agers offered motorcycles for planting roadside bombs, children ...

Seven U.S. troops were killed in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

Gen. David Petraeus will not say whether U.S. troops will begin to pull out of Afghanistan next summer as President Obama pledged last year, saying any drawdown will be conditions based.

WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange says that his organization is preparing to release the remaining 15,000 secret Afghan war documents it has.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday he was disappointed by criticism from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates over the release of about 75,000 pages of U.S. documents related to the war in Afghanistan.

Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, making July the deadliest month ever for U.S. troops since the Afghan war began.

Investigators have found concrete evidence linking Pfc. Bradley Manning with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a defense official said.