Admiral Mullen: 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan

Thirty thousand more will be  enough to secure cities and roads, mostly,   but will not be nearly enough to defeat the Taliban.  This looks much  like Iraq 5 years ago." Mullen's comments...

War-weary U.S. is down in the dumps

"Things are gloomy south of the border. Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the United States seldom shared by so many people. Only 25 per cent of U.S. residents...

People in war-weary Aceh province vote in first-ever local elections

Residents in Aceh province began voting Monday in elections seen as key to cementing a peace deal that ended a brutal 29-year war in the region worst hit by the 2004 Asian tsunami