What A Deployment Looks Like Through An Air Force Photographer's Lens
Source: BusinessInsider
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 13:31:50 -0700 | business-news
Boy was I surprised when a Reddit User with the twitter handle RaptorClause got back to me about these images to say that they were all "public domain." They were public domain, he explained, because they had all been taken...
Columbia's Joey Falcone, a Military Veteran, Hopes for a Baseball Career
Source: International Herald Tribune
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 13:31:37 -0700 | sports-news
After serving two tours of duty in Iraq and one in Afghanistan as a Marine Corps medic, after hitting .336 with 5 home runs and 25 runs batted in this season to help the Lions earn their third N.C.A.A. tournament...
The Record: Letters, May 19, 2013
Source: Little Fairy Local
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 13:27:14 -0700 | sports-news
I think most of the country breathed a sigh of relief that this doctor will never again perform an abortion in this country...Gosnell was found guilty of murdering live babies by snipping their spines. This was after they were delivered...
Canadian military gear stranded in Afghanistan
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 12:30:58 -0700 | political-news
ET Canadians soldiers load baggage at Kandahar airbase in 2011. Hundreds of shipping containers filled with military supplies remain stranded in Afghanistan. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press) A team of 15 Canadian soldiers has been dispatched to Kandahar on a month-long assignment...
ISAF plane makes hard landing in Afghanistan
Source: NewKerala
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 12:09:14 -0700 | travel-news
Sunday in Afghanistan, but there were no casualties, a statement said...Without providing details, the statement stressed that "there are no casualties, and there was no indication of insurgent activity in the area at the time". In a similar incident April...
Two Guam guardsmen killed while deployed
Source: Pacific Daily News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-23 22:33:02 -0700 | travel-news
Written by Mark Pieper Pacific Daily News Filed Under One of two Guam soldiers killed in Afghanistan recently was honored in a Dignified Transfer of Remains ceremony in Dover Air Force Base yesterday...Flores attended the ceremony, according to the governor's...
Military wife's surprise weight loss leaves Army husband a big winner
Source: Fox News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 11:40:13 -0700 | political-news
Published May 19, 2013 FoxNews.com It was a hefty surprise -- borne from a much slimmer woman...Wilmington. "When I did send him pictures, they were from the shoulder up." The homecoming came with another shock for the Army specialist a...
Pentagon planning to claim lowest-ever annual Afgh
Source: Zee News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 04:15:10 -0700 | travel-news
The Pentagon is planning to request the lowest-ever annual supplemental budget from the government, about 79.5 billion dollars, which is the lowest cost for anti-terror war ongoing since 2005. The drop in budget comes as US troops and war equipments...
Afghans With Disabilities Fight For The Right To Rights
Source: National Public Radio
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 02:58:50 -0700 | political-news
Najamuddin Helal is the head of the center and is himself disabled...He says disabled Afghans face barriers everywhere they turn. "Even the private clinics, private hospital, they are not accessible," he says. And good luck finding elevators, ramps or handicapped-accessible...
Cannes: 'World War Z' With Brad Pitt to Open Moscow Film Festival
Source: Hollywood Reporter Film
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 02:23:39 -0700 | entertainment-news
Paramount Pictures The 35th edition of the event also unveiled the first 10 competition titles. Marc Forster 's World War Z , starring Brad Pitt , will open the 35th annual Moscow Film Festival on June 20, organizers said here...
Herald News: Letters, May 19, 2013
Source: Ridgefield Park Patriot
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 23:21:36 -0700 | travel-news
While it is heart-breaking to lose our men and woman in combat, it is outrageous to have them murdered by the people we are training to take over when our troops are finally pulled out of this country. These murders...
2 Afghan Suicide Attacks Kill 8, Wound 41 in Single Day
Source: Salem News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 05:25:13 -0700 | travel-news
The war-weary Afghans experienced two deadly suicide bombings Thursday, leaving eight people, including two attackers dead, and more than three dozen others injured, officials confirmed. In the first incident during morning rush hour in the fortified capital city of Kabul,...
Prayer leader killed
Source: DAWN
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 21:26:08 -0700 | political-news
A prayer leader was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Ring Road near Patang Chowk on Saturday A complainant Abdullah told Faqirabad police he along with his father Maulana Mohammad Younus came under attack while on way to Charsadda bus...
Shinseki Faces Mounting Criticism Over Backlog of Benefit Claims
Source: The New York Times
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 20:28:17 -0700 | health-news
Michael Friberg for The New York Times A paper system for claims has been blamed for the backlog. But the target is not an elected official, or a politician at all. It is President Obama's secretary of veterans affairs, Eric...
Signing of treaty for transfer of prisoners urged
Source: DAWN
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 20:21:59 -0700 | political-news
The caretaker government has suggested that the incoming government should sign the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, a European multilateral treaty, to enable it to seek repatriation of Pakistani citizens imprisoned in countries which have already ratified the...
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