“A Thousand Splendid Suns” is the closest most of us will get to Afghanistan, unless ordered there by the president. But, by seeing this land through Khaled Hosseini’s eyes, we do learn more about the conflicts in the news.

This week, Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute of the Army was named to oversee operations in Iraq and Afghanistan the so-called war czar but is it a title worth having?

NEW CASTLE - Chappaqua’s war memorial on a circle of grass in front of the train station holds names from the first and second World Wars as well as Vietnam and Korea.

Former Millikan linebacker, 23, earned many medals in Special Forces. A former Millikan High School student who became a decorated Green Beret was killed in action on May 15 near Qalat, Afghanistan, the military said.

Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair defends his decision to support the United States in the invasion of Iraq in an exclusive interview with NPR News. He adds that he believes the only way terrorism can be defeated is “not through force of arms, but through the force of ideas.”

Descendents of troops who fought in America’s wars dating back to the Revolutionary War will join about 3,000 family members of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan on Sunday in a tribute to those who have died in service to their country.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed shock over the killing of three German soldiers in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, news reports said Saturday.

Americans were dismayed to learn that soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq—“fallen heroes,” as network news calls them—were being warehoused in Building 18, a rat- and roach-infested satellite of the Army’s Walter Reed Medical Center.

A suicide bomber killed three German soldiers and six civilians in a crowded street market in northern Afghanistan on Saturday in the latest violence blamed on the Taliban, security officials say.

BAGHDAD (AP) - Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair is on his last visit to Iraq. He hopes during his unannounced trip to persuade Baghdad to call new provincial elections and increase efforts to bring those linked to violence into the political process.