Retired lieutenant-general Omer Lavoie told National Post that eight service members throughout the Commonwealth have received Victoria Cross medals for their service in Afghanistan. Four have been awarded by Australia, three by the U.K., and one by New Zealand.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of launching overnight airstrikes in three eastern provinces, killing 10 civilians

Thousands of residents gathered at Millennium Place to mark Remembrance Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11, honouring generations of Canadians who served in conflicts from the Boer War through to the war in Afghanistan. This year’s ceremony carried added weight, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

UNITED NATIONS — The international effort against Taliban militants in Afghanistan faces major long-term problems and cannot succeed by military means alone, an unusually downbeat Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday. Canada has 2,300 ...

Make sure his name is remembered forever,' says petition calling for northern Ontario man to receive Canada's highest military honour

U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, demoralizing and at times humiliating.The bipartisan Afghanistan War Commission aims ...

The Victoria Cross, Canada’s highest military honour, hasn’t been awarded to a Canadian soldier since the Second World War. Now, a petition before the House of Commons meant to rectify that situation has reached more than 16,

SYDNEY(AP) — The only Australian soldier to be charged with a war crime in Afghanistan pleaded not guilty Friday, but a prosecutor said he is unlikely to stand trial before 2027. Oliver Schulz, 44, is accused of shooting Afghan man Dad Mohammad three ...