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Billions of dollars worth of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and Iraq could fall into disrepair over the next few years because inadequate provisions have been made to pay for their ongoing operations and maintenance, according
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Ernest Hancock
Matt Southworth - Legislative Associate, Foreign Policy at FCNL - Afghanistan, Libya, War, Obama... / Shahid Buttar - executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee - PATRIOT Act - Memorial Day
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Matt Southworth - Legislative Associate, Foreign Policy at FCNL - Afghanistan, Libya, War, Obama... / Shahid Buttar - executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee - PATRIOT Act - Memorial Day
The reported deaths — of 14 civilians [12 kids] in southern Helmand province and 22 police officers plus civilians — are likely to add to long-running tension between Kabul and its Western allies about civilian casualties caused by NATO forces.
Seven soldiers killed in a bombing in southern Afghanistan on Thursday were Americans, the Pentagon confirmed, adding that they died after successive blasts struck them at the same location. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said the soldiers
Known as "JSOC" -- Joint Special Operations Command. They report directly to the president and, as National Journal reporter Marc Ambinder put it "operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential direction.
DAVID Cameron yesterday announced the start of Britain's withdrawal from Afghanistan. The PM revealed the first 450 troops will be brought home this year. But the move is bitterly opposed by military chiefs, who claim it risks throwing away the
Formally established in late 2009 to collect the fingerprints, iris scans, and facial images of Afghan national security forces, the program’s initial goal... But information sharing—with partners like the FBI—is also a key component of the program.
Hundreds of insurgents attacked Afghan police checkpoints in a remote northeastern province Tuesday with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades but failed to overrun the government positions, officials said.
When construction crews faced attacks while working on a major American-financed highway here in southeastern Afghanistan, Western contractors turned to a powerful local figure named simply Arafat, who was suspected to have links to Afghanistan’s ins
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Ernest Hancock
Kathy Kelly - is co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence - Now that Osama is "Dead",... will the attacks in Pakistan stop?
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Ernest Hancock
Kathy Kelly - is co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence - Now that Osama is "Dead",... will the attacks in Pakistan stop?
America's number one enemy is dead. "I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden
The Specter of bin Ladinism - Eric Margolis on what the US has done. / Osama bin Laden's 2nd Death - Paul Craig Roberts on the Obama show. / The Justice System Is Criminal - Bill Anderson on crooked prosecutors and crooked judges.
Eight American troops and a U.S. contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting at Kabul airport — the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners, officials said. The Afghan
Some 500 Taliban prisoners escaped from an Afghan prison overnight through a massive underground tunnel that inmates had secretly created, officials said Monday.
Taliban militants dug a lengthy tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters. The massive overnight jailbreak in Afghanistan’s second-largest city underscores
U.S. drones fired a volley of missiles into a militant-held Pakistani region close to the Afghan border on Friday, killing 25 people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
“You can’t just convince them through projects and goodwill,” another Marine officer said. “You have to show up at their door with two companies of Marines and start killing people. That’s how you start convincing them.”
An Afghan army infiltrator opened fire inside the defence ministry in Kabul on Monday, killing two soldiers and wounding seven in an audacious strike on the heart of government claimed by the Taliban.
Taliban Spokesman Threatens More Attacks Targeting Afghan Officials
At least one Afghan protester has been killed and 10 others have been left wounded in northern Afghanistan as police opened fire at the demonstrations against the presence of foreign troops in the country.
2011 Spending to Increase on Afghan War Costs
An investigation is under way into reports that a US drone killed two American soldiers in Afghanistan. If confirmed, it would be a rare example of a “friendly fire” incident by the pilotless aircraft.
US Insists All Slain Were 'Insurgents'
Patrol in eastern Afghanistan’s Baraki Barak district on March 27 highlighted an important technological gap between U.S. forces and their Afghan partners that will only grow more noticeable as the Americans hand off responsibility.
At least eight UN staff and four protesters killed after over reported Quran burning turn violent.
Military leaders and President Obama’s civilian advisers are girding for battle over the size and pace of the planned pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan this summer, with the military seeking to limit a reduction in combat forces and the White H
Warning: This report links to highly graphic and disturbing photos
I recently asked the question: “When Will the Iraq War Really End?” What I found instead was an answer to another question: “When Will the Afghanistan War Really End?” The answer is never.
