(McClatchy photo: Chuck Liddy. An Afghan man listens to a US soldier at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.) One of the biggest challenges facing President Obama in Afghanistan is the drive to train enough Afghan police and soldiers to handle the...

Anyone living or working in a war zone should take a moment to reflect on the passing of Lester Shubin, the Justice Department researcher credited with inventing the first effective bulletproof vests. The Washington Post obit on Shubin includes this...

Forget about Daniel Craig, Roger Moore and Sean Connery.  Afghanistan has its own 007. Sure, he may drink tea instead of vodka martinis and drive a Camry instead of an Aston Martin. And Halle Berry does not co-star. But Kabul's 007, when he's...

When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to Kabul last week for Afghan President Hamid Karzai's inauguration, she sat in a palace hall that included some of the country's most influential warlords. Along with Karzi vice presidents Mohammed...

Finally, reports of progress in talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Unfortunately, the report  comes from the Onion... "According to State Department officials, the violently clashing peoples of Israel and Palestine have agreed to...