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By Stokes Young, msnbc.com Director of Multimedia

I’ve never been to Afghanistan – only looked at countless photographs and screened hours of video reports on the U.S.-led conflict there since 2001.
But over the past week, I dug into NBC News archival coverage of Afghanistan as we prepare for the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of the war-torn country on Oct. 7 and ahead [...]

By Lee Cowan, NBC News correspondent
APIA, Samoa – Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of “Treasure Island” called the Samoan Islands home. He died here, at only 44 and was later buried on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific. But as gifted a writer as he was, even he might be at a loss for words to [...]