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(CNSNews.com) – The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction told lawmakers on Wednesday that his office has issued 11 reports and 600 audits since its creation in 2008, but that despite “all of the reports we’ve done, no one in the government has been held accountable.” “I always joke that the only person who’s ever going to get fired over Afghanistan is probably going to be me,” John Sopko told the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that deals with international development. “Nobody else,” he said. “Not the generals who came up [to the Hill] and spun and spun and spun, and...

In a "Gutfeld!" exclusive, host Greg Gutfeld sat down for an interview with the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump; discussing a range of pressing topics from his successor's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the porous southern border, and the Fox News late-night host's towering ratings. Trump, who has regularly touted ratings for his own previous television program "The Apprentice", remarked that Gutfeld has quickly risen to become "the king of late-night" in only a few short months. "Your ratings are fabulous. I just saw you are the king of late-night," he said. "You are beating some very...

President Obama has made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan this Memorial Day weekend, Fox News has learned.

Barack Obama, resolute enough when he’s designing health care schemes, shows only irresolution abroad. Weakness and irresolution is the face he turns to the rest of the world, in hopes that if he hires a good speechwriter and bows deeply enough to whatever kings and potentates cross his path, that’s good enough. But of course it isn’t, and Mr. Obama is challenged now at every turn by friend and foe of the United States who need to see on what meat the man feeds, and of what stuff his promises and assurances are made. The mullahs in Tehran, who can’t...

The White House says it didn't try to stop news organizations who had access to secret U.S. military documents from publishing reports about the leaks. WikiLeaks posted 91,000 classified documents on Afghanistan Sunday. The organization's founder says he still has thousands more Afghan files to post.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2010 – Nearly all of the U.S. combat troops slated to deploy to Afghanistan to take part in the military buildup there should arrive by the end of August, the commander of U.S. Central Command said here yesterday. Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, answers questions from the audience during a military strategy forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2010. DoD photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Molly A. Burgess  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “Everybody engaged in this [Afghanistan deployment], from the president...

KHAR, Pakistan - Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters. The government said it was expelling all Afghan refugees in the Bajur tribal region, alleging many of them have links to militant groups. Police in the town of Khar in Bajur arrested 25 Afghans and said they would soon be deported.

WASHINGTON – Efforts by the US soldiers deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom to help the Afghan people throw off the oppressive Taliban government appear not to be complete. A 41-year-old Afghan man, Abdul Rahman, is being tried for converting to Christianity 16 years ago. If found guilty by the Afghan court he faces the death penalty. The judge in the case, Ansarullah Mawlazezadah, has commented to ABC News, "We will ask [Rahman] if he has changed his mind about being a Christian. If he has, we will forgive him, because Islam is a religion of tolerance." Is this what Americans...

President Bush vowed that the world's most-wanted terrorists — al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden and Taliban ruler Mullah Mohammad Omar — would not elude authorities forever."It's not a matter of if they're captured or brought to justice, it's when they're brought to justice," Bush said during a five-hour visit en route to a long-planned trip to nearby India and Pakistan. Today's stop was the first opportunity for Bush to see first-hand how Afghanistan has changed since the U.S. overthrew the Taliban following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, sending bin Laden and Omar into hiding.The president's words were unusually...

Pakistani forces have killed or wounded at least 25 people in a raid on suspected foreign militants near the Afghan border, regional officials say. Troops backed by three helicopter gunships attacked a suspected militant camp in the North Waziristan region. "It was a training camp of foreign miscreants," local government official Sayed Zaheerul Islam said. The attack comes just days before a visit to Pakistan by US President George W Bush. Last month, Pakistan protested after a US missile strike in the Afghan border region killed at least 18 people. Last week, the authorities in North Waziristan announced a temporary...

Aussies kill 'dozens of Afghan fighters' AUSTRALIAN special forces have killed dozens of al-Qa'ida and Taliban fighters in a series of fierce firefights in northeastern Afghanistan. Defence Minister Robert Hill confirmed that the Australians, who were deployed last month to take on a resurgent Taliban in the troubled country, inflicted heavy casualties in the first serious fighting since arriving in the strife-torn country. Senator Hill, in Afghanistan for talks with President Hamid Karzai and other senior officials, also pledged to provide training for Afghan forces. He said there had been two big engagements. In one, a patrol of Afghan Army...

International observers have endorsed Afghanistan's first presidential election, rejecting opposition calls for a new poll amid reports of fraud. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said demands by 15 of the 18 presidential candidates to annul the poll were "unjustified". The local Free and Fair Elections Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA) said the poll was "fairly democratic". However, OSCE Ambassador Robert Barry said "the candidates' demand to nullify the election is unjustified and would not do service to the people of Afghanistan who came out yesterday, at great personal risk, to vote". Meanwhile, FEFA - the single largest...