Warnings of chaos in Iraq as US prepares to pull out

'Just because you invade a country stupidly doesn't mean you have to exit it stupidly,' says Iraq watcher

Operation Moshtarak: the first 48 hours

In pictures: Snipers and roadside bombs are slowing the progress of Nato troops as they attack a Taliban stronghold

US Marine bushtucker

A US Marine is fed a scorpion during a jungle survival course in Chonburi province, Thailand

‘Jesus rifle’ sight makers agree to stop inscriptions

Pressure from Pentagon and New Zealand army persuades manufacturers to desist

US troops take on Taliban with secret ‘Jesus rifles’

'No one realised' rifle sights had been inscribed with Bible references by manufacturer

The desperate war cries of a besieged president

Alexander Cockburn on the speech that pleased neither liberals nor the right

General McChrystal: ‘It’s the end of the beginning’

Robert Fox: US now has real strength in Helmand, while Special Forces raise stakes against Taliban

What they’re saying about Obama’s Afghan surge

President Obama has decided to send 30,000 extra US troops to Afghanistan

Karzai wants foreign troops out within five years

What they are saying about the Afghan president's second-term inauguration