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Tuesday night, President Obama announced that another 34,000 troops will come home from Afghanistan by this time next year. This is wonderful news for those 34,000 soldiers and their friends and [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kkh73W-vOk4] With the vast majority of Americans, including people of all political persuasions, supporting a withdrawal of [...]

Yesterday, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) held a press conference with a bipartisan group of representatives to call on President Obama to accelerate the end to the war in Afghanistan. “I believe that [...]

Will our troops in Afghanistan see their children serve there 23 years after the war began? Last week, President Obama announced an agreement with the Afghan government that could mean thousands [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7BK7hVb-w&feature=player_embedded] Last week, two dozen senators led by Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Max Baucus (D-MT) sent a letter to President Obama [...]

In more than eight years of persistent and inspiring activism, you never lost sight of our goal: to bring every last American soldier home from Iraq. Today, it was gratifying to hear President [...]

Today, President Obama announced the overdue end to the war in Iraq. We were pushing for a complete withdrawal up until the last minute, with the Pentagon and some hawks pushing for a residual [...]

When the war in Afghanistan began ten years ago this week, four of my five grandchildren weren’t even born yet. The US has now been at war for their entire lives. Over that time, I have given [...]

The 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan is next week, on October 7. Have you been thinking of which story you’d like to share in our online slideshow, “Your life in the decade [...]

“Unbelievable.” That’s how a retired army colonel described a new report that details rising catastrophic injuries to US troops. General Petraeus may have just testified to Congress that [...]