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• White House On Defensive As Former Secretary Of Defense Robert Gates' New Memoir Critiques Pres. Obama's Leadership (Video)

  The White House was on the defensive on Wednesday with news of the release of Robert Gates' In Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War, in which the former Secretary of Defense offered a critique of President Barack Obama as a somewhat indecisive leader while also knocking Vice President Joe Biden

• Michael Adelbolajo & Michael Adebowale Found Guilty Of Gruesome Murder Of UK Soldier Lee Rigby In Southern London (Video)

  A jury on Thursday convicted two British Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale of murdering serviceman Fusilier Lee Rigby who was run down with a car and stabbed to death on a London street in May, The Associated Press reported. The 25-year-old Rigby was walking toward his barracks when he was hit by a car, then stabbed and nearly decapitated by a cleaver, according to news reports.

• War in Afghanistan: President Karzai Calls for Delay in Signing Security Deal With U.S. As Obama Sends A Letter To Counterpart (Video)

  Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that he prefers that his successor will sign the security pact with the United States, which could keep American troops in the country for a decade or longer

• Captain William Swenson: President Obama Awards U.S. Army Soldier With Medal Of Honor For Brave Actions In Afghanistan (Video)

  34-year-old William Swenson, a former U.S. Army captain whose actions in a deadly battle during the War in Afghanistan, received the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony on Tuesday, Sky News reported. President Barack Obama honored Capt. Swenson for his brave actions in a lengthy battle against the Taliban in the Ganjgal valley near the Pakistan border on September 8, 2009.

• Taliban Attack: US Consulate Bombarded By Terrorists Who Kill 4 in Western Afghanistan; No Americans Injured (Video)

  The Taliban attacked the U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan with car bombs and guns on Friday, killing at least four Afghans, though they did not enter the compound or hurt Americans.

• U.S. Peace Talks with Taliban: Officials to Meet with Afghan Islamic Fundamentalist Political Movement in 'A Couple of Days'

  The U.S. will meet the Taliban in Doha, Qatar for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan where the United States has battled the insurgents for 12 years, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said the Taliban would issue a statement on Tuesday opposing the use of Afghan soil for attacks on other countries, and that they support an Afghan soil for attacks on other countries and that they support an Afghan peace process.

• Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan: At Least 15 Killed on Attack on a Convoy in Kabul (Video)

  A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul, killing at least 15 people including six Americans on Thursday. Forty people were wounded in the morning blast that occurred at about 8:30 A.M

• U.S. Diplomat Killed: 25-Year Old Anne Smedinghoff, Killed in Afghanistan, Remembered as 'Vivacious, Smart and Capable' (Video)

  Anne Smedinghoff, the 25-year old suburban Chicago woman, joined the U.S. Foreign Service straight out of college, was among those killed in a terrorist attack in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Smedinghoff was killed, along with five Americans, in a suicide car bombing while delivering textbooks to school children on Saturday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Chuck Hagel Visits Afghanistan: Suicide Bombing Coincides With First Trip to Kabul as Secretary of Defense

  A suicide bomber blew himself up on the roadway outside the Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, Afghan officials said as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel made his first visit to the country in his new post. At least 8 civilians were killed in the attack, and another six or seven wounded, according to Afghan officials.

• Medal of Honor: Hero of Ferocious Afghanistan Battle, Clinton Romesha, Gets Recognized at the White House (VIDEO)

  President Obama presented Clinton Romesha, a former Army staff sergeant who four years ago led a battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters, with the Medal of Honor on Monday. Romesha led the defense of a plywood-and-concrete out post dangerously placed in a valley of the Afghan-mountains.