By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated PressLIMA, PeruDefense Secretary Leon Panetta lashed back at Afghan President Hamid Karzai Friday, saying the Afghan leader should say thank you now and then to the allied forces who are fighting and dying there, rather than
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed a high-level delegation from Afghanistan to the State Department. She said the goal of the meetings was to negotiate a new security agreement on the future US-Afghanistan relationship.
The Taliban is now claiming to have closer ties with al Qaeda. Lara Logan reports from Afghanistan and speaks to a Taliban commander. Then, senior correspondent John Miller talks to Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell about the resurgence of violence.
60 Minutes” interview with U.S. commander in Afghanistan GEN. ALLEN: “Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization”
Anyone who thinks the Obama administration won’t release the Blind Sheik needs to look at what happened early Saturday morning and then think again. Under cover of darkness and without prior announcement convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Khadr was quietly shipped
(AP) US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000By PATRICK QUINNAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanU.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that now garners little public interest at home
The U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan has come and gone, and not much has changed since Obama initiated it in 2009, according to data released by NATO. The Taliban’s momentum has not been stopped and attacks on our troops are
At the United Nations today, President Obama explained to the world that we would not disengage from the Middle East … unless they were mean to us. He stated that America’s efforts in the Middle East depended on the goodwill
Afghanistan on Tuesday welcomed a Pentagon decision to put two US Marines on trial for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters and posing for photographs with them. The Pentagon announced that Staff Sergeants Joseph Chamblin and Edward Deptola
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh claims an Israeli attack on Iran will lead to attacks on U.S. bases and will result in World War III. In a segment that aired on Al-Alam TV September
How many times can Joe Biden lie and get away with it? Can you say infinity? Can you say google? This time Biden spoke in front of the New Hampshire State House in Concord. In an attempt to exaggerate the
What color is the sky in the political media’s world? Each week this month has begun with some variation of “Romney is doomed.” We’ve had rabid amplification of Romney “gaffes” interspersed with the traditional “campaign infighting” stories. There has also
President Barack Obama is about to release or transfer 55 Gitmo prisoners, despite reports that the Libyan believed to be behind the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was a former Guantanamo inmate transferred to Libyan custody. The large percentage of those scheduled
To be clear, this attack and this massive loss of airpower happened last week. The reason this information might be news to you over a week later is due to our media’s depraved indifference to reporting any truth that might hurt Barack
The 33,000 troops Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan as part of the 2009 surge have been withdrawn to bolster the president’s war-victory claims in the upcoming election. The troops were originally sent to push back the Taliban and create safe
Senator John McCain is changing positions on the war in Afghanistan, and is now open to the idea of pulling all troops out of the region. Up to this point, McCain has opposed pulling all remaining troops out in 2014,
Today, someone from President Obama’s administration finally labeled the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, what it is: a terrorist attack. “I would say yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack,” said Matt Olsen,
(AP) Afghan leader urges peace day after suicide blastBy AMIR SHAH and HEIDI VOGTAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanThe Afghan president on Wednesday urged his nation to rally behind the push for peace despite persistent violence, evoking the memory of former leader who
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Afghan suicide attack kills 13 in revenge for anti-Islamic movie Appearing to panic, U.S. announces end of joint operations with Afghan soldiers China’s nuclear weapons dilemma China discovering billions of dollars in fraud over
By SARAH EL DEEBAssociated PressCAIROEgypt’s general prosecutor issued arrest warrants Tuesday for seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor and referred them to trial on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that has sparked riots across the Muslim
By DEB RIECHMANNAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanNATO said Monday that it has scaled back operations with Afghan soldiers and policemen to lower the risk of insider attacks and reduce local tensions over an anti-Islam video that prompted protests in Afghanistan. It’s the
Jesse Jackson at Saturday’s rally for striking Chicago school teachers
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan police officer turned his gun on NATO troops at a remote checkpoint in the south of the country before dawn Sunday, killing four American troops, according to Afghan and international officials. It was the
(AP) Military: Afghan inside attack kills 4 US troopsBy HEIDI VOGT and MIRWAIS KHANAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanAn Afghan police officer turned his gun on NATO troops at a remote checkpoint in the south of the country before dawn Sunday, killing four
By PATRICK QUINNAssociated Press writerKABUL, AfghanistanThe Taliban claimed responsibility Saturday for an attack on a sprawling British base in southern Afghanistan that killed two U.S. Marines and wounded several other troops, saying it was to avenge an anti-Islamic film that
