Afghan War
The issue of Metro that is coming out tomorrow is going to reveal three incidents - one in 2002 and two in 2010 - when the New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan took prisoners and handed them to other forces. Allegations of this sort of thing have been going on.
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The assessments contradict defense officials’ optimistic outlook. They contend that large swaths of the country remain at risk of falling to the Taliban and that...
made popular Dec 15 2010
This past week President Obama awarded the military’s highest honor - the Medal of Honor - to a living soldier for the first time since Vietnam.
Since Vietnam,...
made popular Nov 22 2010
(Reuters) - The NATO summit in Lisbon this weekend will mark a turning point in the prosecution of the war in Afghanistan as it lays out a roadmap to end combat...
made popular Nov 16 2010
Pakistan has criticized a pair of NATO airstrikes on its territory that killed over 50 militants, saying they were a violation of its sovereignty.
U.S. officials have...
made popular Sep 28 2010
FIVE US soldiers allegedly blew up three Afghan civilians with grenades and kept their body parts, including a skull and fingers, as trophies.
New documents released...
made popular Sep 10 2010
Is Osama bin Laden — figurehead of al-Qaida and the most wanted terror suspect in the world — secretly working for the U.S. government? Former Cuban...
made popular Aug 28 2010
New Zealand’s government will soon release findings of reports and legal advice regarding allegations that the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) were...
made popular Aug 18 2010
General Stanley McChrystal has submitted a letter of resignation to President Obama in the aftermath of an article to be published this week in “Rolling...
made popular Jun 23 2010
US experts believe the find could turn Afghanistan from a bedraggled nation torn apart by generations of conflict into one of the most important mining centres in the...
made popular Jun 15 2010
The Senate easily passed an almost $60 billion war funding bill Thursday, but anxiety over out-of-control budget deficits led House leaders to drop tens of billions of...
made popular May 28 2010
After September 11th many Americans came to believe the official propaganda lie that antagonism against America and the terrorism it breeds is rooted is some sort of...
made popular Apr 14 2010
An American service member died Friday when his vehicle struck a bomb in eastern Afghanistan, making August the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the nearly eight-year...
made popular Aug 29 2009
The U.S. and British governments plan to spend millions of dollars over the next two months to try to persuade Afghan farmers not to plant opium poppy, by far the...
made popular Aug 9 2009
The new American commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that United States Marines had faced less resistance than expected in their operation to clear Taliban safe...
made popular Jul 16 2009
United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
made popular Jul 4 2009
Congressional negotiators reached tentative agreement on Thursday on a $105.9 billion spending measure that would provide money for military operations in Iraq and...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Reporting from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan — The accusation was damning: U.S. soldiers were said to have tossed a grenade into a crowd of Afghans in the eastern...
made popular Jun 11 2009
“What are you doing?” For the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the answer to the latest social networking craze seems to be: “Killing...
made popular Jun 2 2009
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If you’re wondering what the West is doing in Afghanistan, you are not alone!
Oh yea, I know all about the poverty, the corrupt government, the religion, the...
made popular Apr 17 2009
Facing growing public anger over the rising civilian death toll from the war in Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has proposed a solution — increasing...
made popular Jan 30 2009
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