The Afghan Diaries

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A former U.S. Army captain embeds as a journalist with his old unit, which has been reassigned to Afghanistan after several years in Iraq More »

Night Patrol

A veteran of Iraq turned journalist embeds in Afghanistan, where even the disposal of IEDs proves to be a different kind of experience More »
Where Lightning Treads Softly

Nate Rawlings joins a patrol through a village More »
How to Get the Local Police to Respond

A former U.S. army captain in Iraq embeds in Afghanistan to chronicle the war in a different theater. In this episode, the Americans try to convice Afghan cops to cooperate More »
The American Strategy in Winter

In Afghanistan, the winter months usually see the Taliban retreat to sanctuaries across the Pakistan border More »
The Long Blooding of the 1-22 Infantry

The challenge for the Regulars and their Afghan counterparts now is to maintain that local trust and cooperation into the spring fighting season More »
An Iraq Veteran Surveys a Very Different War

When I left the Army, I figured I had seen my last combat zone. But less than a year later, my old unit deployed to Afghanistan after three tours in Iraq More »
Wings of Mercy

TIME Photographer James Nachtwey photographs the men of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Regiment. More »