Five aid workers, who were in Afghanistan working on behalf of the International Committee of the Red Cross, were abducted in the Herat province on Saturday, a spokesperson said. The Red Cross is working on securing their release.

The U.S. major general killed by a lone Afghan soldier has been identified as 52-year-old Harold J. Greene, an engineer on his first deployment to Afghanistan. According to the Wall Street Journal, Greene is the highest-ranking American military casualty in more than a decade.

This is America, and when America launches a war to make not-America more like America, by God, America does it right. Which is why we can now declare unconditional victory in Afghanistan: victory for the American bedrock value of flooding a country with legal guns that end up in illegal hands.

At least 89 people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the Patika province of Afghanistan this morning. No group has yet taken responsibility for the attack, but Reuters notes that members of the Pakistani Taliban have been retreating to this area of Afghanistan to avoid military attacks in Pakistan.

Defense officials said late Sunday that former Taliban POW Bowe Berdahl will return to active duty as early as today. According to a report from The New York Times, Berdahl will live in the barracks and take a job at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where he's been in therapy the past few weeks.

Afghanistan's election drama got worse this week when the preliminary results of last month's presidential runoff were released to show contender Abdullah Abdullah losing by a wide margin. His camp responded by calling the election a "coup" against the people's votes.

According to Afghan police, Taliban insurgents cut the index fingers off 11 voters who participated in Saturday's presidential run-off between foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. The incident occurred in Herat, in western Afghanistan. All 11 fingers were from men.

When you go to save the refugees in a war zone, you take only the essentials: First aid, meal kits, knife, poncho liner, and rubberized anal/vaginal orifice for self-pleasuring.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the Taliban's controversial ex-captive, was speedily dismissed from the Coast Guard for psychological reasons before the Army recruited him, and was reading Atlas Shrugged shortly before he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan.

According to an Associated Press report, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has said that he was tortured, beaten, and kept in a cage by Taliban forces while held captive in Afghanistan. Bergdahl spoke of the torture — which allegedly came after he attempted to escape — to people treating him at a U.S. military medical center in Germany.

Two reports released today reveal new details about the dealings of the capture and release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban forces. The first report, from the New York Times, states that Bergdahl walked away from designated areas on military bases twice—once in Afghanistan, and once in California—before disappearing in June 2009.

Conservatives want you to know they're simply telling an inconvenient truth about the bad behavior of U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl and the Obama administration's effort to get him back from Taliban captivity. It's also a truth that's 180 degrees from the truth they tweeted lo, these many years ago!

On Wednesday, the Taliban released a video purportedly showing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's handover to U.S. authorities.

A former high-ranking attorney for the State Department and National Security Council under George W. Bush says the five Gitmo detainees traded for POW Bowe Bergdahl would have to have been freed soon anyway, so the deal was "a defensible, hold-your-nose compromise."

Several soldiers who served with Bowe Bergdahl, the recently freed U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan, would like to tell you how to deal with that dirtbag. They don't want to get into the politics, but they have ideas. Would you like to book them for your show? Just call the Republican strategists representing them.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only prisoner of war held by the enemy in Afghanistan, was freed last week after a deal by the U.S. to exchange him for five Taliban fighters at Guantanamo. But is he a turncoat? And did the White House sell out America to secure him? Here's what we know.

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the only American POW of the Afghan War, was freed after five years of captivity in a prisoner swap with the Taliban, the Obama Administration reported this afternoon. In exchange for his release, five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, were transferred to Qatar.

Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah cheer during a campaign rally in Jaghuri district in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on Thursday. The second round of the presidential election will take place on June 14. Image via Massoud Hossaini/AP.

A war-decorated drill instructor faces a possible Army court martial after allegedly assaulting a dozen women in the service over the past three years, including one on a base in Afghanistan.

President Obama is expected to officially announce today that troop levels in Afghanistan will be reduced to just under 10,000 by the year's end. That means more battalions for Africa and Syria now!