Today we take a look back at McChrystal’s words and actions through the last year. McChrystal is to meet the President today in the White House.

A look back at McChrystal in words and actions

As the firestorm over Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s comments and the resulting fallout continues, look back at McChrystal in action and words from the past year.

McChrystal to Face Obama Today

WASHINGTON — With the ramped-up war in Afghanistan at a precarious moment, President Obama prepared to hear his top war commander explain biting published complaints about the commander in chief and his aides. Even before their showdown, the White House’s rebuke of Gen. Stanley McChrystal suggested it would be hard for him to save his job.

Pakistan to Release Bin Laden Hunter

DENVER — The brother of an American on a solo mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden says the Colorado man is being released by the Pakistani government without charges.

Report: Afghan drug addiction twice global average

Nearly 1 million Afghans between the ages of 15 and 64 are drug addicts, according to a new survey.

Personal details of soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Private Tim Aplin, Private Ben Chuck, and Private Scott Palmer died as a result of an incident involving an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopter in Southern Afghanistan early on Monday morning. 

Jack Nicklaus donates design for VA course

LAKEWOOD, Wash. — Jack Nicklaus takes the wrapping off another in his signature line of hybrid clubs and hands it to Danny Dudek.

Taliban finance chief captured in raid

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO and Afghan forces captured a senior Taliban figure in an overnight raid, the international force said Tuesday in a statement.

US May Fund Taliban Via Protection Racket

WASHINGTON — Criminal investigators are examining allegations that Afghan security firms have been extorting as much as $4 million a week from contractors paid with U.S. tax dollars and then funneling the spoils to warlords and the Taliban.

Taliban Offer Prisoner Swap for Troops

Taliban militants in Pakistan’s northwest Tuesday offered the government a prisoner swap in return for 33 missing soldiers, threatening to kill the men if the proposal is rebuffed.

White House: Afghan pullout will start in 2011

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration reaffirmed Sunday that it will begin pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan next summer, despite reservations among top generals that absolute deadlines are a mistake.

9-month deployments, 3 years of dwell favored

The Army wants to reduce combat zone deployments to nine months and increase dwell time to three years, Gen. George Casey, Army chief of staff, told Army Times.