Afghanistan

Jacksonville Beach residents are hosting a Welcome to Your New American Home event to welcome Kaihan, a former Afghan combat interpreter who fought alongside American troops in his native Afghanistan, and his family to their new home.

The first owners of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver, are giving two $500,000 grants to local nonprofits to assist with Afghan refugee resettlement efforts.

Twenty-two Afghan refugees have arrived in Jacksonville over the past three weeks as the Taliban takes over their country.Five families of adults and…

The Jacksonville-based Wounded Warrior Project nonprofit it’s making about 40,000 phone calls to support veterans amid the U.S. withdrawal from…

Mariam Nasery fled Afghanistan with her family when she was 10 to escape violence stemming from the Soviet-Afghan War. This week she woke up to what she…

An attacker wearing an Afghan military uniform shot at service members from the NATO-led coalition. Maj. Gen. Harold Greene is the highest-ranking U.S. officer killed in a war-zone since Vietnam.

Controversy continues to swirl over the White House prisoner swap that exchanged long-missing U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban prisoners…

The number is in line with what military officials had asked for. The United States will end America's longest-running war in 2014 and expects most of the residual force out of the country by 2016.

U.S. Army combat veteran Wes Moore is the executive producer of the series "Coming Back" which focuses on the personal lives of soldiers as they…

A new documentary film is premiering in St. Johns County this weekend honoring several generations of local veterans.Presented by the Veterans Council of…