Last week, President Obama announced that 30,000 more American troops are going to Afghanistan. TODAY’s Matt Lauer and Al Roker are going too, anchoring special broadcasts from the Afghan capital on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 8 and 9. Lauer and Roker will spend time with American troops both on the ground and in the air, delivering the latest reporting from the war zone at a fateful time in the conflict.
Dec. 9: NBC’s Jim Maceda reports on why a good number of the 30,000 U.S. troops being deployed to Afghanistan over the next six months will be heading to southern Afghanistan.
Dec. 9: TODAY’s Matt Lauer talks with Defense Secretary Robert Gates about his meeting with Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai and how the troops are feeling about the president’s plan.
Video: TODAY’s Matt Lauer asks the locals how they feel about American military presence in the country.
Video: The capital of Afghanistan’s population has grown from 300,000 to nearly 5 million since the war began.
Video: NBC’s Richard Engel reports on how life is now changing for Afghan women in suprising ways.
Images: Life in this war-torn country as seen through the eyes of children, elders and soldiers.
Images: Military men and women are fighting to suppress the Taliban and win over the Afghan people.
Images: Photographer Erin Trieb spends six weeks with the U.S. Army's busiest trauma center in Afghanistan.
Interactive: Explore and learn about Afghanistan's tumultuous and long history.
Interactive: Find out about the origins of the war, the battles, and struggle for stability
Interactive: Readers share photos of their family who are serving in Afghanistan.
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