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The top U.S. military officer described the situation in Afghanistan as "serious and deteriorating," but refused to say Sunday whether defeating a resilient enemy would require more than the 68,000 American troops already committed.

Adm. Mike Mullen also expressed concern about eroding public support as the U.S. and NATO enter their ninth year of combat and reconstruction operations.

An Afghan militant group is willing to "help" U.S. and coalition forces, if they prepare to leave Afghanistan, the group's leader said in a statement given to CNN on Monday.

Removal of a top U.S. commander shows Pentagon's view that officers must be adept at working the battlefield -- and Washington.

Taliban militants fired at least nine rockets at the Afghan capital in a pre-dawn attack on Tuesday, police said, injuring a child and causing some damage in the biggest such attack in years.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reached two solemn milestones Monday: July has become the deadliest month for U.S. troops in ...

Two U.S. soldiers also die in a separate bombing as violence grows in scattered areas of the nation. A powerful truck bomb killed at least 25 people today, more than half of them schoolchildren, in a province just south of Kabul.

Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan ...

An American soldier is believed to have been captured by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said today.

War-funding legislation survives a fierce partisan battle in the House, a major step in providing commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan the money for military operations.

AP - An ex-soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that drew attention to the emotional and psychological strains on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.