About the correspondent

Richard Engel

Richard Engel was named NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent in April 2008. His report, "Tip of the Spear," aired on MSNBC.

Why a surge is not a sure thing in Afghanistan
Blog posts from NBC in Kabul
'Marmageddon' is over! New Zealand rejoices over return of Marmite spread
Report: Chinese army tied to widespread US hacking
Chinese official booted after account of lurid affair emerges

Multimedia
Image: US troops train members of the Afghan National Army
AP

Photos: The front lines

See pictures from the fight in Afghanistan.

  Slideshow: A glimpse of Camp Restrepo
More on Afghanistan
Opinion: The war and black America

Commentary from TheGrio.com: African-Americans will fall in line with Obama on Afghanistan.

Do you have loved ones in Afghanistan?  | See tributes

Latest headlines

'Why would we wait?': Sisters face Jolie cancer dilemma

Angelina Jolie’s revelation this week that she’d had both breasts removed to lower her risk of cancer came as a bombshell to many -- but not to three sisters from Berkeley Heights, N.J. Cathy Balsamo, Cindy Lepore and Patti Broccoli have spent the past year grappling with the dilemma that Jolie faced: What to do when a genetic mutation means you’ve got a sky-high chance of breast or ovarian cancer?

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