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A Year of Forever War in Review
The United States remains entrenched in a set of military interventions across significant parts of the world.
![The US has been waging endless war for a generation, wasting trillions of dollars and costing countless lives.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/12/2018_1220-w-400x300.jpg)
The US Announces Plans to Withdraw Ground Troops From Syria
Antiwar groups applaud the news, but are calling for the US to also take action on Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.
![Wounded Afghan men receive treatment at the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital a day after a suicide attack on a religious celebration in Kabul on November 21, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-1064001652-400x300.jpg)
Superbugs Plague Afghan Hospitals
Afghan citizens are already dying because of the war, but drug resistance will mean even more deaths.
![Afghan security forces and investigators gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack outside a British security firm's compound in Kabul, a day after the blast on November 29, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-1066316886-400x300.jpg)
After 17 Years of War, Afghanistan Is All But Forgotten
The Forever Wars must be ended.
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George W. Bush Accepts Prestigious Liberty Award With Bloody Hands
Let’s maybe try a little harder with the awards next time.
![A father helps his daughter hold flowers before putting them onto headstones of family members after the Fort Logan VA National Cemetery Veterans Day Ceremony at Fort Logan National Cemetery on November 11, 2018, in Denver, Colorado.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/2018_1112-armistice-400x300.jpg)
One-Hundred Years Later, It’s Time to Disarm Armistice Day
Veterans Day has become a celebration of war-machine porn, unlike its somber beginnings in the Armistice Day.
![Soldiers with Task Force Devil, 82nd Airborne Division, on a convoy headed to Kakaran, Afghanistan, May 27, 2003. A new study from Brown University's Costs of War Project found that the US's "war on terror" has killed half a million people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/3047333534_51070839b7_o-400x300.jpg)
New Report Finds Half a Million Killed by Global “War on Terror”
This new body count signals that, far from diminishing, the war is only intensifying.
![A prisoner mops the floor in the common area of the Guantánamo maximum security prison on October 22, 2016, at the US Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/2018_1025-guantanamo-400x300.jpg)
The Forever Prisoners of the US’s Forever War
For 17 years, the US has used the unjustifiable detention of “terror suspects” to carry out its endless war on terror.
![Dave Hancock, a veteran from the war in Vietnam, participates in an antiwar protest in front of the White House December 16, 2010, in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/GettyImages-107633296-400x300.jpg)
A Majority of Veterans Want Troops to Return From Afghanistan
Less than one in four veterans say the war in Afghanistan has been successful.
![Afghan peace activists shout slogans in demand to an end to the war during a march from Helmand as they arrive in Kabul on June 18, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/09/GettyImages-977568368-400x300.jpg)
How Afghanistan’s Peace Movement Is Winning Hearts and Minds
The impetus for the peace movement is the growing insecurity and increase in violence.