World leaders have demanded Hamid Karzai detail plans for Afghanistan's future.

General Stanley McChrystal deserved to be fired as the United States commander in Afghanistan, writes Gwynne Dwyer.

Two words on journalist Michael Hasting's initial pitch to trail Stanley McChrystal appear to have tickled his PR staff's fancy: Rolling Stone.

They called it the "Death Star" because according to one source "you could just reach out with a finger and eliminate" somebody.

President Barack Obama's handling of the "Runaway General" affair was exemplary.

The Nato commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington over a series of disrespectful remarks he and his staff made to Rolling Stone magazine.

Three Australian commandos have been killed and seven injured in a helicopter crash during an early-morning operation against Taleban insurgents.

Four soldiers, three of them Australian, have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

If you survived The Pacific - and the ratings suggest many didn't - here's another call of duty with the United States Marines.

Well the last shots have been fired, now the full-blown arguments can begin. Was The Pacific, the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' production actually any good?

One of Britain's best-known soldiers has mocked claims of post-traumatic stress disorder among the armed forces.

The deaths of two Australian soldiers in a bomb blast has reopened debate on the nation's involvement in the war in Afghanistan.

With the leadership of Recep Erdogan, Turkey is once more becoming a powerful player in the Middle East.

Australia has reaffirmed its support for the war in Afghanistan, despite the deaths of two of its soldiers yesterday.