(AP) Pakistan says US drones kill senior Taliban figureBy RASOOL DAWAR and ISHTIAQ MAHSUDAssociated PressPESHAWAR, PakistanTwo U.S. drone strikes on northwest Pakistan killed a senior Taliban commander who fought American forces in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani
A new draft of a 75-page Army handbook for troops heading to Afghanistan says that American cultural insensitivity is to blame for the 63 attacks this year by Afghan soldiers against the U.S.-led coalition forces who are training them.
(Reuters) – Pakistani militants, who have escalated attacks in recent weeks, killed at least 41 people in two separate incidents, officials said on Sunday, challenging assertions that military offensives have broken the back of hardline Islamist groups. The United States
(Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the same base where a suicide bomb attack killed seven CIA employees three years ago. The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for
(AP) Afghan bomber attacks near major US baseBy AMIR SHAHThe Associated PressKABUL, AfghanistanA vehicle driven by a suicide bomber exploded at the gate of a major U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing the attacker and three Afghans,
(AP) NORAD says record number of calls to track SantaBy DAN ELLIOTTAssociated PressPETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo.Most of the thousands of children who call the annual Santa-tracking operation at a Colorado Air Force Base on Christmas Eve ask the usual
Jon Hammar, the twenty-seven year old Marine who was imprisoned in the notorious CEDES jail in Mexico for four months, arrived home at his parents’ home in Florida Monday in time for Christmas. His mother Olivia, when she heard that Mexico
A surge of violence in northwest Pakistan culminating in the assassination of a senior provincial minister has raised fears of a renewed Taliban campaign that could threaten national elections, analysts say. The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the adjacent Federally-Administered
(AP) Afghan policewoman kills US adviser in KabulBy DENIS D. GRAYAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanAn Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, the latest in a rising tide of insider attacks by Afghans
Last Thursday, the Minnesota Department of Education held public hearings to approve its new social studies education curriculum that leaves out “patriotism” as a civic virtue and teaches that America’s rise as a global power from its agrarian roots led
On Thursday, the House passed a $633 billion defense authorization bill that “provides a 1.7-percent pay raise for the military,” funds the war in Afghanistan, “includes fresh sanctions against Iran,” and offers “compromise language on military detention of US citizens.”
In what his mother called a “Christmas miracle,” Jon Hammar, the ex-Marine and Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran whom Mexican authorities had detained and chained to a bed in a gang-infested prison on a trumped-up gun charge, was released on
The US House passed a $633 billion defense authorization bill Thursday that includes fresh sanctions against Iran and funds the war in Afghanistan, while offering compromise language on military detention of US citizens. In addition to covering standard national security
While the state of Connecticut, and the nation at large, remains in shock over the school shootings in Newtown, some members of the black community in New Haven are frustrated at the outpouring of national attention to this incident when
FOX NEWS LATINO: Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has the power to pardon former Marine Jon Hammar if the veteran is convicted – but it’s unclear whether Mexico’s highest leader would do so. Hammar’s fate now rest in the hands
Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers on Tuesday, police said, highlighting resistance to the country’s immunisation campaign. Four were killed in three different incidents in the sprawling port city and the fifth in the northwestern
One former Marine who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan is being chained to a bed in a storage closet in a violent Mexican prison because the Mexican government claims the gun he carried violated their laws. He has received death
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Memories of the slaughter at Beslan, North Ossetia Ukraine’s sale of weapons to Syria’s rebels backfires Troubled Afghanistan counter-insurgency projects are costly and ineffective Memories of the slaughter at Beslan, North Ossetia A man
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed one American service member and wounded three other U.S. troops outside a base in southern Afghanistan on Thursday shortly after a visit there by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, officials said. Panetta
Strasbourg, France–The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of a German citizen against Macedonia, saying the European nation owes the man $78,000 for handing him over to the CIA. The court labeled the man “an innocent victim
(AP) Panetta in Afghanistan to meet with KarzaiBy ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterKABUL, AfghanistanU.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on Wednesday for an unannounced visit to consult with top commanders and President Hamid Karzai. The visit comes at
A source within a Scout Cavalry Platoon with boots on the ground in Afghanistan not only corroborated a recent Pentagon report blaming Pakistan for deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan but told Breitbart News it understates the trouble caused by Pakistan’s porous
Despite an easing of tensions with the United States, Pakistan is persistently undermining security in Afghanistan by permitting safe havens for insurgents, a Pentagon report said. In a biannual war assessment mandated by Congress, the Defense Department said that the
Iran has temporarily shut its consulate in the Afghan city of Herat after protesters there attacked the mission’s compound, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday quoting a foreign ministry source. The measure came after an anti-Iran protest in front
FOX NEWS: A member of Navy SEAL Team 6 was killed over the weekend on a mission to rescue an American doctor who had been kidnapped by the Taliban. The rescue mission began early Sunday morning in Afghanistan after intelligence
