AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
See More Stories
Executive Behind Lavish Conference Leaves Agency
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
Eastern Afghanistan
NATO: Bomb Kills 5 NATO Troops, 4 Afghan Soldiers
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber disguised in an Afghan army uniform on Saturday detonated a vest packed with explosives at the entrance to a base in eastern Afghanistan, killing five coalition and four Afghan soldiers, officials said. The explosion also injured four Afghan soldiers and four translators, according to Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Azimi said the attacker approached on foot and detonated his explosives at about 7:30 a.m. at the base entrance. "The attacker had the Afghan security force ...
NATO Repels Insurgent Attack in East Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - NATO forces killed seven insurgents who tried to storm their way onto a base in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said Wednesday. NATO said the attack was carried out late Tuesday in the city of Jalalabad by insurgents firing assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. A statement from the coalition added that NATO forces returned fire and called in an attack helicopter. It said there were no coalition casualties; there were no further details on the killed insurgents. There has been an increase in battles between U.S.-led forces and insurgents in the past couple of ...
Gates: US Should Stay Involved in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGRAM, Afghanistan -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that both the U.S. and Afghan governments agree the American military should remain involved in Afghanistan after the planned 2014 end of combat operations to help train and advise Afghan forces. "Obviously it would be a small fraction of the presence that we have today, but I think we're willing to do that," Gates told a group of U.S. troops at Bagram air field, which is headquarters for U.S. and NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan. "My sense is, they (Afghan officials) are interested in having us do that." Mandel ...
Top US General Visits Troops in Afghanistan on Christmas
By not in system - AOL NewsMARJAH, Afghanistan -- The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan crisscrossed the country on Saturday, making a Christmas visit to coalition troops at some of the main battle fronts in a show of appreciation and support in the tenth year of the war against the Taliban. Gen. David Petraeus started his visit by traveling in a C-130 cargo plane from the capital, Kabul, to the northern province of Kunduz, telling troops with the U.S. Army's 1-87, 10th Mountain Division that on this day, there was "no place that (he) would rather be than here" where the "focus of our effort" was. Elena ...
Afghan Police Gunman: Taliban Plant or Trusted Officer?
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Dec. 1) -- To the Afghan police, he was a trusted officer with a three-year record of good service. To the Taliban, he was a sleeper agent, planted to kill his supposed allies when the time was right. That time apparently came Monday, when the 23-year-old border cop shot and killed six American soldiers in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan. It was one of the worst acts of violence committed by an Afghan officer against NATO troops since fighting began nine years ago. Alternately identified as Hezatullah or Ezzatullah by news agencies, the one-named, poor villager was described as a ...
5 NATO Troops Among Dead in Afghanistan Attacks
By not in system - AOL News
KABUL, Afghanistan (Nov. 14) -- A series of bomb blasts and insurgents attacks killed 11 people across Afghanistan on Sunday, including five NATO service members and three Afghan police, officials said. The strikes, which come a day after Taliban fighters stormed a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, show the insurgents' fighting spirit has not been broken despite a surge of U.S. troops and firepower. Also Sunday, the Afghan president's office said the former ambassador-designate to Pakistan, who was seized by gunmen two years ago in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, has been released and is ...
Taliban Attack NATO Base in Eastern Afghanistan
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(June 30) -- Taliban fighters set off a suicide car bomb and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the gate of a sprawling NATO air base in eastern Afghanistan this morning, and eight of them were killed after failing to breach security. Two NATO troops suffered minor injuries in a gun battle that lasted hours and disrupted traffic outside the Jalalabad base, along a main route toward the border with Pakistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility in calls to several Western news outlets. The attack occurred as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder arrived in Kabul for talks, but wasn't believed to be ...
Senators Go to War: Sir! Yes, Sir, Senator!
By David Wood - Politics DailyCOMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Eastern Afghanistan -- Just about the time the laughter here was dying down, U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Jack Reed were touching down in Kabul for a whirlwind, suit-and-tie "fact-finding'' tour of the war zone. That was hundreds of miles from this remote U.S. Army base, home to a small, well-armed contingent of soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment COP Zormat that was under the onslaught of a slashing evening rainstorm. Turret gunners on the gun trucks returning from patrol were soaked and shivering. The rain beat against the plywood walls of the ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics