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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 29, 2008 - Coalition forces distributed much-needed supplies to nearly 200 villagers in Nangarhar province to help them through the severe winter. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 28, 2008 - Army Chaplain (Capt.) Joe Gotshall and several members of the 724th Military Police Battalion regularly visit Egyptian Hospital patients at Bagram Air Base to boost spirits with smiles, toys and conversation. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2008 - Forces in Regional Command East have increased the operations tempo 300 percent over this time last year. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2008 - Army engineers are building roads and outposts that are helping put isolated Afghans onto the path of peace and prosperity. |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 27, 2008 - U.S. airmen are leading a weekly women’s seminar for female Afghan National Army soldiers and civilian workers that offers them encouragement to change, starting with wearing their uniforms to work. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2008 - Nearly a third of the 3,200 Marines scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan next month will be stationed in NATO’s southern and western regional commands to train Afghan security forces to face upcoming threats, a top U.S. military official said. |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 26, 2008 - Airmen from 755th Expeditionary Support Squadron are mentoring Afghan National Army soldiers at the Logistics Support Operations Center in Kabul. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2008 - Establishing stability in Kunar province is like putting together a puzzle and Afghan Regional Security Integration Command Central is helping the pieces fit. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2008 - Afghan and coalition forces have killed enemy combatants and destroyed insurgents’ infrastructure and weapons in Afghanistan in recent days, military officials said. |
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| CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 24, 2008 - The Taliban in Afghanistan will resort to more terror killings because they have been unsuccessful against NATO and U.S. troops in direct combat, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said. |
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| HERAT, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2008 - They look may like any other policemen in Afghanistan, but if U.S. Army Col. James Klingaman is right, the 143 new police officers might prove to be the best in Afghanistan. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 21, 2008 - Afghan soldiers and coalition forces delivered water heaters to the Tarin Kowt hospital and visited the Oruzgan provincial headquarters of the Afghan National Police. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2008 - Afghan and coalition troops captured 22 suspected insurgents, seized massive quantities of illegal narcotics and destroyed a weapons cache in Afghanistan. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2008 - The Afghan government, with U.S. and international aid, has made great progress over the past year in providing health care to its citizens, a U.S. Army physician said. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 19, 2008 - Harsh winter weather, coupled with rising food and fuel prices, has created a burgeoning humanitarian crisis in some areas of Herat province, in western Afghanistan near the Iran border. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2008 - Afghan and coalition forces detained seven suspected insurgents during an operation targeting Taliban support networks in Afghanistan’s Zabul province. |
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| FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Feb. 19, 2008 - Afghan and coalition forces are working with national government officials to help farmers endure the harsh winter in a western province. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2008 - Four suspected insurgents were detained by coalition troops in Afghanistan during an operation to disrupt Taliban leadership networks in Zabul province. |
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| CAMP EGGERS, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2008 - Five medics received Army Achievement Medals following the Talaban bombing of a Kabul hotel, Jan. 14, 2008. “We’re the only medics that go outside the wire,” said U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Karla Tapia. “We’re known as the 911 of Kabul city." |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 14, 2008 - Several armed insurgents were killed and nine armed individuals were detained during two separate coalition operations to disrupt Taliban command and control networks. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2008 - An armed assailant was killed, and three individuals were detained during a coalition operation in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province, military officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2008 - Airmen from the 755th Air Expeditionary Group’s explosive ordnance disposal team recently helped Afghanistan National Police in Kapisa province, Afghanistan, dispose of unexploded ordnance. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 12, 2008 - Medics in Afghanistan are getting the newest version of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle: an MRAP ambulance. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 12, 2008 - Afghan Army and coalition forces showed up on the first day of class to give school supplies to more than 100 children . |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2008 - Afghan National Army’s 201st Kandak soldiers, aided by coalition forces, visited Tangay village elders in Oruzgan province. |
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| MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 10, 2008 - NATO's experience in Afghanistan holds lessons for the alliance’s near- and long-term strategy, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said. |
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| MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 10, 2008 - The war on terror in Afghanistan is Europe’s war, too, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in Munich, Germany. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2008 - Leaders training security forces in Afghanistan’s western region need about 300 more trainers, a U.S. Army colonel said. |
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| NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Feb. 8, 2008 - Men and women at the contracting office in Nangarhar province fight the war on terror by awarding more than 90 percent of their contracts to area Afghan contractors. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2008 - The fight in Afghanistan is important for the future of the Afghan people, the NATO countries involved, the United States, and the rest of the world, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2008 - A shortage of resources for the NATO effort in Afghanistan has led to a risk-management approach to operations. |
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| FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Feb. 6, 2008 - With help from coalition forces, Afghan National Army medics and pharmacists, and Afghan Ministry of Public Health nutritionists are providing free medical care to more than 400 villagers a week near a combined military outpost in Farah province. |
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| WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2008 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will discuss the need for more NATO forces in Afghanistan when he attends a defense ministers meeting in Lithuania. |
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| FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHARANA, Afghanistan, Feb. 4, 2008 - Afghan workers are learning skills to make them more marketable in their country’s expanding construction industry. U.S. Army engineers led a seven-day course to teach basic carpentry, job safety and the proper uses of tools. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 3, 2008 - Several armed insurgents were killed Jan. 31 in Oruzgan province, Afghanistan, during a coalition operation to degrade weapons-facilitation networks in the area. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 1, 2008 - Afghan and coalition troops discovered several underground weapons caches in Oruzgan province Jan. 26. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Feb. 1, 2008 - Afghan national security and coalition forces recently brought supplies to a snow-bound village in Oruzgan province. |
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