Afghanistan

It's time for a political settlement, Mattis said last Wednesday in a wide-ranging informal session with Pentagon reporters.

Three U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday in an explosion that wounded four other Americans.

Sgt. Leandro A.S. Jasso was killed during an operation to eliminate al-Qaida militants in Nimruz province.

Three American service members were killed and three were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan, officials said.

The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan faces an overall deterioration of the military and a political situation.

This comes just four days after another insider attack left an Afghan police chief dead and an American general wounded.

The 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade assume the Army's advise-and-assist mission to support Afghan security forces.

Is America's longest war a failure?

A U.S. service member was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, the third to die supporting the effort there in the past month.

"Ron slapped me across the face and said 'wake up, you are not going to die today.' And I knew ... I was going to make it."