Afghanistan

World champion bareback rider Kaycee Feild set aside his Memorial Day week to visit troops serving in Middle East war zones as part of the Armed Forces Entertainment Wrangler National Patriot Tour.

The Payson cowboy was joined by champion mounted shooter Annie Bianco-Ellett, 2009 Miss Rodeo America Maegan Ridley, country singer Lucas Hoge and Wrangler executive Jeff Chadwick.

The tour means so much to Feild, that he even wears it on his sleeves.

Even as the war in Afghanistan is featured less often on evening newscasts or front pages of our newspapers, Americans still involved in the fight continue to die there, deepening the pool of Memorial Day remembrances with new heroes and fresh heartbreak.

To get a sense of what’s still being sacrificed on Afghan soil, Courtney Knox, the 24-year-old widow of Army Sgt. JaBraun Knox, of Auburn, Ind., agreed to tell us about her husband and how he died May 18 at a forward operating base near Asadabad, Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO airstrike killed eight members of a family, including children, according to Afghan officials who claim that such attacks damage the civilian population's trust in international troops who have been fighting in the country for more than a decade.

CHICAGO -- As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the deeply unpopular Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their troops sure to die in combat.

Both parents send a child into the world, but it is harder for the mother. She grew that kid in her body. That’s a bond.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO says an attacker wearing an Afghan army uniform has opened fired on coalition service members, killing one.