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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Sept. 16, 2008 - A baby was among the 473 Afghan patients from Panjshir province treated by local doctors with the help provincial reconstruction team medics. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2008 - Afghan and coalition forces killed one militant and detained eight during separate operations in Afghanistan. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Sept. 15, 2008 - Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan and the U.S. Agency for International Development have been working with the local government in Oruzgan province on several developmental projects. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2008 - Coalition troops and Afghan national policemen killed an unspecified number of militants and detained two suspected insurgents in Khowst province, military officials said. |
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| NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2008 - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told CNN that American troops are doing a "spectacular" job in Afghanistan, but they face complex challenges because of regional instability. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Sept. 12, 2008 - Coalition forces killed more than 10 militants and detained two others while targeting Taliban and Haqqani terrorist networks in eastern Afghanistan. |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 12, 2008 - The Afghan Interior Ministry announced the creation of the country’s first neighborhood watch program. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2008 - Coalition forces killed several enemy fighters and detained three suspected militants during operations in Afghanistan’s Ghazni and Khowst provinces. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2008 - With support from coalition forces, Afghan troops detained a suspected insurgent and heavy-weapons facilitator in the Tarin Kot district of Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Sept. 8, 2008 - More than 80 people attended the opening of the Chinaki Uyla Medical Clinic built with $106,000 from the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team on land donated by a farmer. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2008 - Coalition forces in Afghanistan killed more than 10 insurgents and captured seven others during a series of operations conducted in Khowst province. |
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2008 - Coalition and Afghan forces killed more than two dozen insurgents while disrupting terrorist cells along the southeastern and southwestern borders of Afghanistan during operations over the past days. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Sept. 5, 2008 - U.S. soldiers, the Afghan National Police and a contracted construction and supply company delivered 75 desks, 10 chalk boards and 150 sets of school supplies to several villages in the Kohi Sofi district of Afghanistan’s Parwan province. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Sept. 4, 2008 - Coalition forces have positively identified five Taliban subcommanders killed during operations in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2008 - Intense enemy fire justified actions taken by Afghan and U.S. forces during an Aug. 22 engagement in which several civilians and more than 30 Taliban fighters were killed in western Afghanistan, a coalition investigation has concluded. |
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| WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2008 - Afghan and coalition forces have killed more than 220 militants during ongoing operations in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. |
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| WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2008 - Afghan and coalition forces killed more than two dozen militants and detained two others during two operations in Afghanistan. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 29, 2008 - With the robust nature of the provincial reconstruction team mission in Afghanistan’s Konar province, some sailors find themselves contributing to the mission in ways they never imagined. |
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| WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2008 - U.S. Marines in Afghanistan face daunting challenges in legitimizing the Afghan police and turning them into an effective counter-terrorist force, but perseverance and focus have served them well, a Marine officer said. |
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| WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2008 - Afghan and coalition forces killed more than 100 enemy fighters during combat operations in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. |
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| CAMP PHOENIX, Afghanistan, Aug. 28, 2008 - The National Guard Bureau chief visited guard troops in Afghanistan, thanking them for being citizen-soldiers willing to respond to the nation's needs. |
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| WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2008 - Coalition and Afghan security forces detained four militants and killed more than a dozen others in separate operations. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 27, 2008 - In a matter of days, American and Australian combat engineers completed the emplacement of two Mabey Johnson bridges in eastern Afghanistan. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 25, 2008 - An Afghan family who returned to Panjshir province after the fall of the Taliban is donating land for an eight-room girls' school. The family doesn't want local girls to have to leave the area to get an education. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 24, 2008 - Coalition forces killed “multiple militants” during an operation to disrupt militant activities in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province, military officials reported.
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2008 - Multiple militants were killed and one was detained by coalition forces during an operation to disrupt militant activities in Afghanistan's Kapisa province. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2008 - Recent fighting between the Taliban and Pakistani forces in Pakistan’s Bajwar Agency has forced thousands of families – many of whom fled to Pakistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion – to cross into Afghanistan. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 21, 2008 - More than 30 militants are dead after Afghan National Army commandos and coalition forces conducted a cordon-and-search operation in Laghman province to disrupt suspected Taliban safe havens and roadside-bombing cells. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 21, 2008 - Thanks to the efforts of the Afghan government and U.S. forces, Bagram Village Girls High School reopened Aug. 19 with three new classrooms, running water, a fresh coat of paint, new desks and a wall surrounding the perimeter. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 20, 2008 - Through a program in which Afghan people can turn in munitions for money, troops on Forward Operating Base Methar Lam have received rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and even a couple of suicide vests. |
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