Afghanistan News
A CHANCE IN HELL
Near Afghanistan's front lines, a daily fight to save lives
The NATO hospital at Kandahar Airfield, staffed in part by doctors and nurses from Portsmouth, is among the most advanced facilities to ever operate in a war zone. Go inside it in this multimedia presentation.
Portraits from Afghanistan
Medical staff sees harsh reality of front lines
Many of the doctors, nurses and other staffers at one of the most-modern military medical units in the world come from Portsmouth Naval Medical Center. Meet them in this special photo gallery.
Special Report
Afghanistan: Our Longest War
Nearly a decade of combat. More than 1,200 U.S. troops killed. $300 billion spent. Could a Hampton Roads program help us get out? Read The Virginian-Pilot's full "New Weapon in an Old War" series.
AP Afghanistan News
- Crash, attack kill 3 NATO troops in Afghanistan
- Fallen Marine's letter marks Memorial Day in Kabul
- Taliban, Afghan neighbors could hamper NATO's exit
- US Embassy in Kabul says US ambassador to leave
- New Zealand to pull Afghanistan troops next year
- Correction: Afghan-NATO's Waning War story
- From M16s to boots, Afghan troops feel slighted
- Flash flood kills 19 in Afghanistan; many missing
- Afghan security issues weighed at NATO summit
More journals and local news
- NATO makes Afghan security shift official
- President Obama's Afghanistan endgame
- France's leader sticking to early Afghan pullout
- U.S. House backs continuing war in Afghanistan
- Taliban leader-turned peace negotiator gunned down
- Afghans refusing to act on intelligence on insurgents
- Soldier from N.C. dies in battle in Afghanistan
- Army: No bullet wound found in soldier Skype death
- Nebraska dog park to be named for fallen sailor
- Detainees released for promises of peace
- Obama signs security pact in Afghanistan
- Afghan police officers killed after shots hit U.S. troops
- Afghan official: U.S. chopper crashed in bad weather
- More photos show U.S. troops posing with corpses
- Pilot reporter a Pulitzer finalist for war-hospital series
- Afghan capital awakes to more insurgent attacks
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