Feb 16 Watch Fighting Eases as Forces Advance in Marjah Offensive Top Taliban military commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has been seized by American and Pakistani forces, as the coalition offensive presses onward in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Margaret Warner reports. Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch Abdullah Calls for Legitimacy in Afghan Government Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah spoke with Margaret Warner in Kabul Wednesday to discuss his decision to drop out of the runoff election and allegations of electoral fraud shrouding President Hamid Karzai's new term. Continue watching
Mar 10 Reporter’s Notebook: Battlefield Circulation Around a Deadly Part of Afghanistan By Admin, PBS News Hour In this reporter's notebook, Margaret Warner accompanied the military to outposts of U.S. and Afghan soldiers in one of the most active insurgent areas of Afghanistan. Watch for her reports about Afghanistan on the NewsHour the week of March 16. Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch Oregon Poet Laureate Inada Reflects on Internment Along with more than 100,000 other Japanese-Americans, Lawson Inada was sent to internment camps for the duration of World War II. He was one of the youngest to live in the camps, and much of his writing addresses that childhood… Continue watching
Oct 01 U.S. Transfers Sunni Fighters to Iraqi Control By PBS News Hour The U.S. military on Wednesday began transferring control of about 100,000 fighters under the Sunni Awakening Councils, who are working to defeat al-Qaida in the region, to the Iraqi government. Continue reading
Nov 21 Watch West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a ‘Soldier’s Heart’ At the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Professor Elizabeth Samet's upper level poetry seminar unearths the creative side of soldiers-in-training. Jeffrey Brown looks at Samet's use of poetry and her new book entitled "Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace… Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch Fewer Mortar, Rocket Attacks in Iraq, U.S. Military Says The U.S. military reported Monday that mortar and rocket attacks in Iraq have fallen to the lowest level in nearly two years. A journalist in Baghdad assesses the reduction in violence. Continue watching
Nov 01 Watch U.S. Service Member, Iraqi Deaths Decrease in October Last month saw one of the lowest death rates of American soldiers in Iraq and a decline in those wounded as well. The number of Iraqis killed also fell compared to previous months. A reporter and a casualty researcher take… Continue watching
Nov 01 Watch U.S. Diplomats Riled Over Possible Forced Duty in Iraq U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice moved Thursday to defuse tensions among Foreign Service officers over a new State Department policy that could force diplomats to serve a tour of duty in Iraq. Analysts assess the new policy and the… Continue watching
Oct 02 Watch Blackwater Chief Defends Security Work in Iraq The head of Blackwater USA, the private security firm implicated in a series of deadly firefights in Iraq, defended his employees' actions before a Congressional committee Tuesday, saying his firm had acted properly "at all times." Two top members of… Continue watching