Edwin Mora

The U.S. State Department spent $6.5 million in taxpayer funds to build communication towers that could still be standing idle in Afghanistan and may never be used as originally intended, the U.S. government watchdog for reconstruction in the war-torn country

U.S. Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, while testifying before a House panel today, indicated that the government’s ability to detect terrorists inside the homeland is hindered by sanctuary cities that shelter illegals.  Johnson added that America must

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, when testifying about the Islamic State before a Senate panel Tuesday, indicated that the country’s border security needed improvement, adding that he is “always concerned” about the U.S. border with Mexico.  Hagel’s comments came in

A cell of seasoned al-Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan and Pakistan has joined forces with al-Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate to pilot innovative methods aimed at smuggling explosives onto U.S.-bound airliners, according to U.S. officials.    Citing unnamed U.S. officials and classified intelligence

The Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) reported that 4,466 self-poisoning and 4,136 self-immolation cases have been registered this year alone across Afghanistan, where suicides exceed deaths by homicide and the war combined annually.  According to MoPH, those figures were

The U.S. government, after investing an unprecedented $104 billion of taxpayer funds on nation-building, does not have an anti-corruption strategy in Afghanistan vital to sustaining the gains made in America’s longest war.  Furthermore, according to John Sopko, the Special Inspector

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate panel today that the geographical dispersion of the al Qaeda ideology through its affiliates makes the terrorist group a “formidable threat.”   This comes more than a decade after the U.S. launched

U.S. forces denounced the Afghan government’s decision to release 37 inmates possibly linked to the Taliban from Bagram prison who have been deemed security threats.  The U.S. handed the Bagram prison over to the government of Afghanistan in March 2013.  According

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is reportedly suggesting that the United States is undermining his government through dozens of insurgent-style attacks.  Citing an anonymous Afghan official sympathetic to Karzai’s views, The Washington Post reported that Karzai has provided “a list of

Roughly half of the Afghan National Security Force (ANSF) was unable to read and write as of February 2013 despite $200 million in U.S. taxpayer funds spent on literacy training, according to a U.S. government watchdog.   The ANSF includes the

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on an Afghan army bus in Kabul that left four people dead and 22 wounded Sunday. Reuters reported that according to police in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the blast

Opposition leaders in Ukraine rejected top government positions offered by the country’s president. USAToday reported that Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who was offered the post of prime minister, tweeted, “No deal @ua_yanukovych, we’re finishing what we started.” Yatsenyuk is the leader of

Russia has warned the U.S. against interfering in the affairs of the former Soviet republic of Ukraine where protesters are now violently clashing with government forces.   Reuters noted on Jan. 25 that the U.S. cautioned Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich that the

Afghan President Hamid Karzai told reporters on Saturday that unless the U.S. restarts peace talks with the Taliban, he will not sign the pending security pact between Kabul and Washington. The pact, known as the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), would

An Afghan school considered unsafe and unusable for students five years after foreign contractors began to build it will continue to absorb U.S. taxpayer funds, according to a government audit. Although the facility was deemed unsafe after one Iraqi and

The second-ranking U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said on January 23 that Afghan forces overmatched the insurgency during the last fighting season, adding that the Taliban is on the “edge of strategic defeat.”  However, speaking live from Afghanistan, U.S. Army

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) today updated its policy dealing with religious apparel and hair grooming that U.S. service members can wear or display while in uniform, allowing body art and piercings in some cases.    “The new policy

U.S. military leaders have submitted a proposal to the Obama White House that would leave behind a 10,000-strong military force in Afghanistan after 2014 when the combat mission ends. The Wall Street Journal first reported the plan, and Fox News confirmed it.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) today identified the U.S. soldier who was killed in a Taliban attack on a military base in southern Afghanistan on Jan. 20.     The DOD reported that 42-year old U.S. Army Chief Warrant

U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) apprehended a total of 414,397 illegal immigrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at and between ports of entry in FY 2013, a fourteen percent increase from the previous year. About 57 percent (235,567) of all

The Taliban, wearing coalition uniforms, attacked a military base with suicide bombs and small arms fire, killing one U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan.  All nine Taliban militants involved in the assault were killed during the attack on a U.S.-NATO base

The Afghanistan president-led National Security Council (NSC) accused “foreign intelligence services” of being responsible for the attack on a Kabul restaurant frequented by foreigners that left 21 people dead, including three Americans.   According to AFP, a Jan. 19 statement from

More than 80 percent of the top 50 most violent cities in the world are located in Latin America, according to the Citizen Council for Public, Security, Justice, and Peace, a Mexican think-tank that tracks worldwide crime statistics.   The most