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JP Morgan Chase & Co. has overcharged thousands of military families for their mortgages, including families of troops fighting in Afghanistan, NBC News has learned.

Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Afghanistan on Monday on a trip for talks with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and visit with U.S. troops.

General David Petraeus, the top military commander in Afghanistan, has been named the "most fascinating person of 2010", beating the cast of MTV reality show "The Jersey Shore" and teen singer Justin Bieber.

Looking for more firepower in the tough fight against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, Marines are scheduled to receive 14 tanks next month, which would be the first time the US military has used tanks in the nine-year war in ...

The military handover from NATO-led forces to Afghans could run past an end-2014 target date in some areas because of lingering security problems, a senior NATO official in Afghanistan said on Wednesday.

Afghan private security forces with ties to the Taliban have been hired to guard U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, exposing U.S. soldiers to attack, a Senate investigation found.

The Pentagon has burned 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's memoir "Operation Dark Heart," his book about going undercover in Afghanistan.

A Department of Defense official tells Fox News that the department purchased copies of the first printing because they contained information which could cause damage to national security.

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

Gen. David Petraeus says burning the Quran could endanger U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Americans worldwide.

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.