US President Barack Obama has ordered a Marine expeditionary brigade and an Army Stryker brigade combat team — totaling 12,000 soldiers and Marines — to Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates signed the orders on 17th this month. The soldiers are part of the 2nd Infantry Division’s 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team based at Fort [...]

Afghan National Army Commandos from the 207th Commando Kandak and Coalition forces liberated three Taliban hostages and arrested six armed militants at a vehicle checkpoint in Farah Province, Feb. 12. As a vehicle approached a combined forces’ checkpoint, the driver failed to heed warnings by the Commandos to stop and attempted to breech the checkpoint. [...]

On Jan. 16 Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former dictator, unsuccessfully defended his country’s record on combating terrorism in a lecture at Memorial Auditorium. Musharraf’s appearance was co-sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Musharraf claimed that Pakistan hasn’t received enough financial support or international credit in its fight against groups like al-Qaida and the [...]