WASHINGTON - President Obama's early attempts to seize control of a neglected Afghanistan war yielded a strategy that pleased almost no one and hasn't turned the tide of a conflict near its 10th year.

Today’s Bob Woodward scoop regarding General Stanley McChrystal’s report about the status of the war in Afghanistan is both unsurprising and provocative. McChrystal’s assessment was about as expected.

When radio host Earl Caldwell put on-air questions to me on New York’s WBAI-FM Friday about the upcoming trial of five U.S. soldiers charged with the wanton killing of three Afghan civilians, I ...

Veteran D.C. reporter Bob Woodward's new book, "Obama's Wars," lays bare the internal strife that colored the Obama administration's response to the war in Afghanistan.