A man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform killed a U.S. coalition service member, the U.S. military said Thursday. It was the latest in a string of such attacks.
The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers arrived in Afghanistan's Zabol province. The paratroopers posed for photos next to Afghan police, grinning while some held — and others squatted beside — the corpse's severed legs.
Afghanistan’s president raised another condition for a long-awaited strategic partnership with the USA: The accord must spell out the yearly U.S. commitment to pay billions of dollars for the Afghan security forces.
Military and intelligence officials said the sophistication of the coordinated attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, show a troubling growth of the Haqqani network.
The lawyer defending the U.S. soldier accused of murdering 17 Afghan civilians claims U.S. authorities are blocking his ability to investigate the incident.
John Henry Browne, the lawyer for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, said U.S. forces in Afghani
• nytimes.com, By ELISABETH BUMILLER and ALLISON KOP
WASHINGTON — After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. James Petra
After the cold-blooded murder of the 17 Afghan villagers in Kandahar Province the US military and the ever-complicit Obama regime constructed an elaborate cover-up, exposing the Administration up to charges of conspiracy to suppress the essential fac
"An Afghan elder who lives in Zangawat, a village near the base, said U.S. soldiers threatened residents with retaliation after an American vehicle hit a buried bomb three days before the shootings. " (LA Times)
In 1876, at the so-called Battle of the Little Bighorn when U.S. Cavalry regiments attacked an Indian village along the Little Bighorn River in Wyoming, the first casualty was a ten-year old Lakota Sioux boy named Deeds.
U.S. military officials paid relatives $50,000 for each of the villagers allegedly killed by a rogue U.S. soldier this month in Kandahar province, Afghan officials said Sunday.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan indicated on Thursday that he believes there should be no American troop draw-downs in 2013, leaving the total at the 68,000 who will remain following scheduled withdrawals this year.
A new report could not be more different: "A parliamentary probe team on Thursday said up to 20 American troops were involved in Sunday’s killing of 16 civilians in southern Kandahar province." Another report says that the soldiers sexually assaulted
I think it is prudent to tread lightly with stories coming from a liberal pacifist website that portrays veterans of the 911 era SERIAL KILLERS, as a combat injured permanently disabled veteran I take the up most offense. We don't have all the facts