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| KABUL, May 4, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan Special Operations medical personnel are working to provide medical assistance for the people of Shindand district in Afghanistan's western province of Herat. |
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| WASHINGTON, May 4, 2009 - Afghan commandos, advised by coalition forces, killed 19 militants during operations in Helgal Valley in the Shakail Shatel district of Afghanistan’s Kunar province. |
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| GARMISH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, May 1, 2009 - The focus on civil matters as well as security that is part of the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan strengthens the reconstruction mission that has been the focus of Germany’s efforts there, German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Jung told students at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. |
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| WASHINGTON, May 1, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed 15 militants, wounded 12 others and detained one in the Arghandab district of Afghanistan’s Zabol province after their convoy came under attack. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 30, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed four men and detained two others in operations overnight to disrupt bomb-making networks in Afghanistan’s Lowgar and Helmand provinces. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 29, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces have killed about 42 insurgents during operations in Oruzgan, Helmand and Lowgar provinces. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 29, 2009 - The Marines are working to build an Afghanistan-worthy, off-road version of a mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 29, 2009 - Any gains in Afghanistan will be tied to the coalition’s ability to tighten control of the Pakistan border. |
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| BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, April 28, 2009 - Country singer and troop supporter Toby Keith finished a 15-show tour in Afghanistan as he drew near the end of his seventh USO tour. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 28, 2009 - Afghanistan will be secure only when Afghan police enforce the rule of law in the country and overcome the people's misperceptions. |
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| KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 28, 2009 - A team of U.S. Army medical personnel at a remote Afghan outpost do their best to save an injured Afghan teenage boy. |
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| BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, April 28, 2009 - U.S. Civil Affairs soldiers are helping an Afghan commercial center in the city of Nangalam to continue doing business after dark by installing solar-powered lights in the marketplace. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 27, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed five militants and detained 16 suspects – including a Taliban commander -- during recent operations in Afghanistan. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 27, 2009 - A revitalized spirit is among the things the Army’s top officer noted during his third visit to Afghanistan in the past year and his first in four months. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 27, 2009 - Members of the 53rd Movement Control Battalion ensure that mail, equipment, passengers and supplies make it across Afghanistan. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 24, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces killed 14 insurgents in a six-hour battle in the Sangin district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province. |
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| KABUL, April 24, 2009 - Special Operations medical forces in Afghanistan completed an unusually difficult, but rewarding mission recently when they saved an Afghan baby. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 23, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed two militants and captured seven others in overnight operations in Afghanistan. |
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| PAKTIA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 23, 2009 - Paktia province elders and Paktia Provincial Reconstruction Team members held a bidders’ conference to give local contractors a chance to compete for construction projects. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 22, 2009 - Southern Afghanistan –- the home of the Taliban and host to the country’s opium industry –- is now the focus of the anti-insurgent campaign there. |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan, April 22, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed an insurgent and detained six suspects following an operation in eastern Afghanistan’s Konar province. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 22, 2009 - Afghan and U.S. troops conducted meetings with villagers in Paktia province to discuss the establishment of Combat Outpost Kalagu. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 21, 2009 - One militant was killed and a suspect was detained during a joint operation today by coalition and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan. |
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| WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 21, 2009 - The Afghan National Police worked with U.S. soldiers serving in Task Force Spartan to provide 25 women and their families with humanitarian aid packages. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 20, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces killed at least four militants and detained four more in recent operations throughout Afghanistan, U.S. military officials reported. |
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| NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 20, 2009 - Joined by local leaders, the provincial reconstruction team in Nangarhar Province celebrated the completion of the Grand Canal repair project in Jalalabad. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 17, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces killed eight militants and detained five in recent operations throughout Afghanistan, U.S. military officials reported. |
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| ALASAY VALLEY, Afghanistan, April 17, 2009 - U.S., Afghan, and French forces joined together in Afghanistan's Alasay Valley recently to provide medical care to more than 600 Afghans from local villages. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 16, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces detained two suspected insurgents and discovered weapons in recent operations throughout Afghanistan, U.S. military officials reported. |
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| KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 16, 2009 - Paratroopers at Forward Operating Base Salerno are busy running fiber-optic cable to keep critical lines of communication open. |
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