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    The cover of "Hero at Home." MUST CREDIT: Illustration by Inna Eckman.
    She wrote a children's book defending her husband's dignity - the 'handsome hero' who lost 2 limbs in Afghanistan
    Grace Verardo, 3, came home one day from preschool and told her mother: "Someone said Daddy is gross." Sarah Verardo spun into action. Her husband's...
    community/people1 hour 5 min ago
    January 27, 2018
    A shopkeeper surveys the destruction in the immediate vicinity of a bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed at least 95 people, Jan. 27, 2018. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, a bomb placed in an ambulance that exploded on a guarded street near embassies and official buildings; hospitals were overwhelmed by the number of wounded. (Andrew Quilty/The New York Times Copyright 2018 / New York Times)
    Suicide bombing in Kabul kills at least 95, wounds 158, officials say
    KABUL - A suicide bomber detonated an ambulance packed with explosives outside a hospital in central Kabul on Saturday morning, officials said,...
    news/worldJanuary 27, 2018 - 12:04pm
    December 5, 2017
    Top al-Qaida leader killed in Afghanistan
    KABUL - Afghanistan's intelligence agency and the U.S. military announced Tuesday that a series of joint U.S.-Afghan operations killed a top leader of the extremist al-Qaida network along with a number of other members. Omar bin Khatab was the most senior leader killed in Afghanistan...
    newsDecember 5, 2017 - 1:18pm
    November 3, 2017
    In an undated image provided by the U.S. Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held prisoner by the Taliban for years after leaving his base in Afghanistan in 2009. Bergdahl was dishonorably discharged from the Army on Nov. 3, 2017, by a military judge, but received no prison time, for desertion and endangering troops, ending a drama that began more than eight years ago in war-torn Afghanistan. (U.S. Army via The New York Times Copyright 2017)
    Bowe Bergdahl, the former hostage who pleaded guilty to desertion, avoids prison
    FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who in 2009 walked off a U.S. military outpost in eastern Afghanistan and spent the next five years in...
    newsNovember 3, 2017 - 11:06am
    October 23, 2017
    Secretary of State Rex. Tillerson (Al Drago/Copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    Tillerson makes unannounced trip to Afghanistan
    KABUL, Afghanistan - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday, Oct. 23, to pledge U.S. support to...
    newsOctober 23, 2017 - 12:59pm
    October 12, 2017
    In an undated image provided by the U.S. Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held prisoner by the Taliban for years after leaving his base in Afghanistan in 2009. A top Army commander on Dec. 14, 2015, ordered that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl face a court-martial on charges of desertion and endangering troops stemming from his decision to leave his outpost. (U.S. Army via The New York Times copyright 2017 / New York Times)
    Army: Bowe Bergdahl will plead guilty in connection with his disappearance in Afghanistan
    Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who spent five years in militant captivity after disappearing in Afghanistan, is expected to enter...
    newsOctober 12, 2017 - 10:49am
    September 18, 2017
    Defense Secretary James Mattis at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Gerald R. Ford at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, July 22, 2017. Mattis said Aug. 20 that President Donald Trump, who had been accused by lawmakers of dragging his feet on Afghanistan, had settled on a new strategy after a “rigorous” review. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
    U.S. to send over 3,000 troops to Afghanistan
    WASHINGTONDefense Secretary James Mattis at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Gerald R. Ford at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, July...
    newsSeptember 18, 2017 - 3:07pm
    August 31, 2017
    U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Division oversee training of the 215th Corps of the Afghan National Army at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afg. on March 22, 2016. The U.S. has about 11,000 troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Aug. 30, 2017, acknowledging for the first time publicly that the total forces there are higher than formally disclosed in recent years. The new count includes covert as well as temporary units, defense officials said. Adam Ferguson/The New York Times
    Pentagon admits thousands more troops in Afghanistan than previously reported
    After months of providing misleading information on the actual number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said Wednesday there...
    newsAugust 31, 2017 - 12:42pm
    August 23, 2017
    American Opinion: Trump's military self-correction
    opinion/editorialsAugust 23, 2017 - 9:46pm
    August 21, 2017
    U.S. President Donald Trump announces his strategy for the war in Afghanistan during an address to the nation from Fort Myer, Virginia, U.S., August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
    Trump clears way for troop increase in Afghanistan as part of retooled strategy
    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump opened the door to an increase in U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan on Monday night as part of a new strategy...
    newsAugust 21, 2017 - 8:57pm
    President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence walk toward the White House, in Washington, Aug. 20, 2017. (Al Drago/The New York Times)
    Trump struggles to move past Bannon, starting with Afghanistan
    Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office on Monday, Aug. 21, in danger of becoming increasingly isolated from the Republican establishment...
    newsAugust 21, 2017 - 7:50am
    August 2, 2017
    U.S. troops assess the damage to an armoured vehicle of NATO-led military coalition after a suicide bomber's attack in Kandahar province, Afghanistan August 2, 2017. REUTERS/Ahmad Nadeem
    Afghan suicide bomber kills two U.S. soldiers in NATO convoy
    KABUL/WASHINGTON - A suicide bomb attack killed two American troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday as they were traveling in a convoy near the airport...
    newsAugust 2, 2017 - 4:33pm
    July 14, 2017
    Pentagon says head of Islamic State in Afghanistan killed
    WASHINGTON - The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in a strike on the group's headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said on Friday, July 14. Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement that other members of the Islamic State...
    newsJuly 14, 2017 - 3:27pm
    June 17, 2017
    Official: Seven U.S. soldiers wounded in insider attack at Afghan base
    MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan - At least one Afghan was killed and seven American soldiers were wounded in an "insider attack" at a base in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, a U.S. military official said. A spokesman for the U.S. military command in Kabul said earlier comments by an...
    newsJune 17, 2017 - 2:18pm
    June 12, 2017
    Afghan soldier kills 3 US soldiers, US official says
    Three US soldiers were killed and another wounded during a joint US-Afghan military operation Saturday in Nangarhar province, US officials told...
    newsJune 12, 2017 - 6:09pm
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