
AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that American forces were prepared to stay in any role beyond a scheduled pullout late this year, but time was running out for Iraq to ask.

AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that American forces were prepared to stay in any role beyond a scheduled pullout late this year, but time was running out for Iraq to ask.

Reuters - A looming government shutdown would be felt thousands of miles away by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and there could be a high political cost for the lawmakers who let it happen.

Reuters - A looming government shutdown would be felt thousands of miles away by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and there could be a high political cost for the lawmakers who let it happen.

AFP - A US military commander on Thursday pressed for Japan to decide soon over a controversial military base, suggesting that the pullout of some 8,000 troops may be delayed without progress.

AFP - A US military commander on Thursday pressed for Japan to decide soon over a controversial military base, suggesting that the pullout of some 8,000 troops may be delayed without progress.

AFP - As the war in Afghanistan enters its 10th year the US military is shaking up its traditional training regimen to prepare troops for the country’s complex battlefields.

AFP - As the war in Afghanistan enters its 10th year the US military is shaking up its traditional training regimen to prepare troops for the country’s complex battlefields.

AFP - An Iraqi soldier gunned down two US troops at a training centre and a third American soldier in Iraq was killed in a separate incident on Saturday, the deadliest day for US forces since July.

AFP - At the entrance to a military base in southern Afghanistan, US Army Staff Sergeant Andrew Cunningham hands out money to locals employed to help rebuild their villages devastated by war.