Tag: Afghanistan

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Nato airstrike kills Pakistan Taliban leader in Afghanistan Pakistan prepares to eject Afghanistan refugees Pakistani immigrants protest in Syntagma square in Athens, Greece Corrections to yesterday’s World View (corrected online): Warren E. Pollock interviews

(AP) Afghan rockets damage US general’s planeBy KAY JOHNSONAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanAn insurgent rocket attack damaged the plane of the top U.S. general as it sat parked at a coalition base in Afghanistan on Tuesday, dealing another blow to the image

(AP) Afghan militants hit US military chief’s planeBy KAY JOHNSONAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanInsurgents fired rockets into an American base in Afghanistan and damaged the parked plane of the visiting chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, the U.S.-led military coalition

Britain came under pressure Monday after Ecuador’s South American neighbours backed Quito’s decision to grant Julian Assange asylum, but he remained a virtual prisoner in its London embassy. The WikiLeaks founder made a defiant appearance from the balcony of the

General Martin Dempsey, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated the obvious in Afghanistan this weekend: that the U.S. and Israel see the Iranian nuclear threat differently–not because they are operating on different facts or intelligence about Iran, but

(AP) Another Afghan police attack kills 2 US troopsBy KAY JOHNSON and AMIR SHAHAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanA newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies on Friday, killing two U.S. service members minutes after they handed him his

(AP) Black Hawk crash kills 7 Americans, 4 AfghansBy HEIDI VOGTAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanA U.S. military helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing seven Americans and four Afghans in one of

KABUL (Reuters) – Eleven people have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, including three U.S. soldiers and four other foreign troops, the NATO-led coalition force in the country said on Thursday.

As we go about our daily business, free from terrorist attacks and warfare in our homeland, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget one every important thing: we are at war. We have troops spread throughout

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com France’s politicians fear widespread unrest after Amiens rioting German view of France: Nostalgic and Narcissistic Multiple bombings create hundreds of casualties in Afghanistan Egypt reopens Rafah border crossing with Gaza Norwegian tourist falls asleep

President Obama is pulling troops out of Afghanistan, but they’re not all out yet. This means that many of the troops that remain are in a dangerous spot because they are in a blurred role which puts them somewhere between

A group of suicide bombers killed up to 20 people in the capital of Afghanistan’s southwestern Nimroz province on the border with Iran, officials said Tuesday. Deputy provincial police chief Mujibullah Latifi said there were six attackers, three of whom

When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told reporters that a former U.S. Marine had been arrested Aug. 4 for entering Venezuela illegally from Colombia, he gave no proof that the man was, in fact, a former Marine or that the man

(AP) Storied 101st Airborne marks 70th anniversaryBy KRISTIN M. HALLAssociated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. After months of grueling road marches through the north Georgia mountains, a group of elite paratroopers had to put their training to the test in a trial by

In an effort to keep Afghan peace talks from the going the way of Israeli/Palestinian peace talks, the Obama administrations has decided to negotiate with Taliban allies in Pakistan. Moreover, they’ve told those Taliban allies that if they will release

In another impressive display of federal oversight, New York’s top banking regulator threatened to strip U.K. bank Standard Chartered  PLC of its license to do business in the state, alleging that the bank illegally handled at least $250 billion in

On May 1, 2011, the free world applauded as Osama bin Laden’s death was announced. The U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six had stormed his compound, killing the terrorist leader who had taunted America in video and audio recordings from secret