Lt. j. g. James Banks, Indiana state senator, talks to a Fox & Friends reporter about his wife, Amanda, being elected to his state senate seat while he is deployed to Afghanistan.
Earlier today, U.S. Army Gen. John F. Campbell, commander International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, accompanied Afghanistan Army Chief Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi to visit Pakistani Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif in Islamabad, Pakistan.
ISAF joins President Obama, President Ashraf Ghani, Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif and the international community in condemning today’s attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
ISAF strongly condemns today’s suicide attack on a convoy transporting British diplomatic personnel in Kabul, which killed a British national civilian security team member, an Afghan national working for the Embassy, four Afghan civilians, and wounded a second British member of the security team and several other Afghan civilians.
“On behalf of ISAF, I congratulate Ambassador Aramaz on his appointment as the next NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan. Ambassador Aramaz’ distinguished service as Turkey’s ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and previous experience as Political Advisor to the ISAF commander from 2002 to 2003 make him supremely qualified for this position. He knows the country, the region, the Afghan people and the Afghan...
