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Two American veterans who served in Iraq confronted former Vice President Joe Biden on the campaign trail this week for his support of the Iraq War that left more than 4,500 Americans dead. 

After 18 years, the end of the Afghan War and bringing all American troops home from Afghanistan is finally in sight.

Sen. Rand Paul said in a recent exclusive interview that the president needs more Republican allies to help him end the war in Afghanistan.

The deal is far from done, but it appears that the U.S. is on the edge of reaching an honorable deal to get out of Afghanistan.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said during the Democrat debate on Tuesday that there was a difference between “combat troops” and “Special Forces.” “There’s a difference between combat troops and leaving special forces in position,” he said when discussing what

Flags will fly at half-staff in in Fayetteville, North Carolina in honor of two soldiers who were killed over the weekend in Afghanistan.

Pentagon leaders pushed back against the idea that the department’s leaders have not been transparent on progress in the Afghanistan War.

Over Thanksgiving, thousands of Green Berets will be deployed in Afghanistan, as the war continues in its 18th year.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) said during the fifth Democrat presidential primary debate that American veterans are “calling for an end” to the “regime change wars” that have persisted with support from the Washington, DC, national security establishment.

American Veterans who risked their lives in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are increasingly opposing foreign interventionism that continues to dominate the Washington, DC, political establishment.

Joe Biden refused to rule out serving only one term as president if elected in 2020, claiming he was not ready to “make that judgement at this moment.”

Trump will award Army Green Beret Master Sgt. Matthew O. Williams with the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry on October 30.

Joe Biden told a harrowing story during an event in 2017 about facing down a razor-wielding gang leader named Corn Pop in his youth by threatening to “wrap” a chain around the man’s head. The incident came back into the spotlight over the weekend when footage of Biden’s remarks began circulating social media.

Joe Biden appeared to forget that his former running mate, Barack Obama, was America’s “last president” during a speech in New Hampshire on Friday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden dismissed the criticism he’s encumbered in recent days for fabricating an emotional story about the Afghanistan War, claiming “details are irrelevant.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed he was not trying to “mislead people” when he fabricated an emotional story about the war in Afghanistan.

Army Sergeant First Class Dustin B. Ard, 31, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, died of wounds sustained in combat in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.

Donna Brazile offered a head-scratching defense on Friday of former Vice President Joe Biden badly mistelling an emotional story regarding the war in Afghanistan. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed the “essence” of an emotional story he fabricated about the war in Afghanistan was true.

“In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony,” the Post elaborated.

A 13-year-old boy on Friday reportedly detonated a suicide bomb at a wedding party in Nangarhar, eastern Afghanistan, home to the most prominent Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) stronghold in the region, killing at least five people and injuring 14 others, according to local officials.

Brigadier General Don Bolduc told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Monday he wants to run for the New Hampshire U.S. Senate seat so that he could serve as a “change agent” in Washington, DC, which faces a “crisis of leadership.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Wednesday delivered a major foreign policy speech at a veterans’ event that urged restraint in overseas military engagements.

A plurality of young, likely 2020 presidential election voters oppose the United States nation-building and toppling foreign governments around the world, a new Harvard poll reveals.

Proponents of ending U.S. military engagement all over the world said they were cheered by a growing right-left coalition of support.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) over the weekend identified the two American soldiers killed on Saturday by an alleged “Taliban insider” donning an Afghan military uniform as the United States and the narco-jihadi group continue peace negotiations to end the more than 17-year-old war in Afghanistan.

Osama bin Laden is long dead, but his plans live on through American foreign policy. In 2001, al Qaeda consisted of only 400 ideologues in the far corners of the world. After the recent regime change wars in Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Syria, typical estimates place their membership at around 20,000. To top it all off, the American economy is out $5.6 trillion dollars for the whole failed project. This is not the legacy of a war to spread, or even protect, liberty and prosperity. Instead it is the legacy of an evil but gifted tactician, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

The ongoing deteriorating security conditions on the ground in Afghanistan do not warrant the proposed withdrawal of American troops,  the top commander charged with overseeing U.S. military activity in South Asia declared on Thursday.

Rose, a U.S. Army veteran, said he disagreed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was a mistake. 

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called the border wall proposal hammered out by congressional negotiators a “big victory” for President Trump.

President Donald Trump during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday said he has “accelerated” negotiations to reach a political settlement in Afghanistan.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday that it was time for Pakistan to get onboard with peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan.

Pakistan this week welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to make political reconciliation between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul the primary goal of America’s strategy to end the more than 17-year-old war in Afghanistan.

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a letter sent to the Pakistani prime minister on Monday, urged the country to assist the United States “in achieving a negotiated settlement of the Afghan war,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has described victory in the 17-year-old war Afghanistan as reinstalling the same Taliban jihadist group American forces overthrew in late 2001.

The U.S. military announced Tuesday that three U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan and three more wounded when they hit a roadside bomb.