“Healing hearts and minds” of the Afghan people is the motto of the Operation Outreach-Afghanistan (OOA) program achieved by U.S. Soldiers, in partnership with ANA Soldiers, as they participated in a humanitarian aid drop to a local orphanage in Kabul.

Servicemembers from the International Security Assistance Force Headquarters said goodbye to one senior enlisted leader and welcomed another in a formal Change of Responsibility Ceremony held here Sept. 1.

The first-ever female ISAF spokesperson joined the Afghan Ministry of Defense spokesman during a news conference today at the Government Media and Information Center in Kabul.

Allawadin, a recruit in the police training program at the Joint Security Academy Southwest, stands in front of his platoon at JSAS. “My other goal is to make the tribal fighting go away. We are just Afghans, we are all brothers."

The spokesmen for the Ministry of the Interior and the International Security Assistance Force spoke together for the first time as they hosted a joint news conference at the Afghan MOI.