US soldier to face May trial over massacre
Source: The Courier-Mail
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 20:33:55 -0700 | travel-news
THE US Army officer charged with gunning down 13 soldiers in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, will face trial this month, the military says. The court martial for Major Nidal Hasan will begin with selection of the military equivalent of...
Best pictures from the past 24 hours
Source: The Globe & Mail
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 20:32:42 -0700 | travel-news
A man walks past a snow-covered bed of tulips in downtown Golden, Colorado May 1, 2013. Riot police walk through a cloud of tear gas as they clash with May Day protesters trying to break through barricades to reach the...
Utah paratrooper dies in his Fort Bragg barracks
Source: The Salt Lake City Tribune
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 16:42:48 -0700 | travel-news
Gannon of West Jordan was pronounced dead after he was found Saturday, a news release from the North Carolina Army base said. Gannon was a grenadier in Company C, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 1st Brigade Combat...
Soldiers killed in Afghanistan named
Source: BBC
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 12:35:16 -0700 | travel-news
Three British soldiers who died after their armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan have been named. They were Cpl William Savage and Fusilier Samuel Flint from the Royal Highland Fusiliers, the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment...
Senior peace envoy killed in Af...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 12:17:29 -0700 | travel-news
A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban killed a senior member of Afghanistan's peace council yesterday, officials said, the latest setback to efforts to end more than 11 years of war. Shah Wali Khan, the head of the High Peace...
Horrific dashcam video purports to show Afghanistan cargo plane crash
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 13:01:27 -0700 | travel-news
Storified by CBC News Community · Wed, May 01 2013 09:06:19 This video posted online Tuesday purports to show the crash of a Beoing 747 civilian cargo plane near Bagram Airbase, north of Kabul, on April 29. Fatal Air Accident,...
Petraeus warns about sequester cuts in opinion piece
Source: United Press International
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 08:43:14 -0700 | travel-news
The former commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan warns automatic budget cuts known as sequestration could end up harming national security...David Petraeus said the annual budget for development aid, security aid and diplomacy is slated to decline by...
Deputy commander in Afghanistan calls insurgency 'resilient'
Source: United Press International
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 07:44:17 -0700 | travel-news
Army general finishing up his third tour of duty in Afghanistan refused to predict the demise of what is proving to be a stubborn insurgency...James Terry told a farewell news conference as deputy commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan that the insurgency...
Around the Town: Fort Tuthill begins ninth season
Source: Arizona Daily Sun
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 06:15:10 -0700 | travel-news
Arizona Daily Sun 1 hour ago The Fort Tuthill Military Museum's ninth season begins this weekend...C Company 158th Infantry Regiment will present an array of weapons found in the Infantry Rifle Company. Among them, the Tow Wire command-link guided missile...
Three UK soldiers die in Afghanistan
Source: BBC South Asia
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-01 09:54:21 -0700 | travel-news
Three British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan after their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Helmand, the MoD says. They were from the Royal Highland Fusiliers, the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland...The soldiers, who...
French plan to cut military causes concern
Source: United Press International
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-30 15:29:20 -0700 | travel-news
France's announcement that it plans to cut 24,000 military jobs by 2019 is causing concern in the U.S. about commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Europe's only defense block...This decision, announced Monday, comes at a time when Europe is...
Dear Jon: Can Ricin Laced Mail Reach My Home?
Source: KION
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-30 14:43:53 -0700 | travel-news
If you want breaking news sent to your email just click here...Sandra wrote to me and asked "given the recent Ricin scare, what's the likelihood that contaminated mail could reach our area or my home?" A 2002 graduate of Monterey...
The Blind Man's Garden
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-30 14:24:10 -0700 | travel-news
ments The Blind Man's Garden Two Pakistani brothers flee to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in this riveting story by Pakistani-British author Nadeem Aslam. By Rayyan Al-Shawaf, Contributor / April 30, 2013 The Blind Man's Garden , the fourth...
Kabul plane crash: Video captures the moment a plane dropped out of the sky before crashing
Source: Mail Online UK
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-30 13:32:19 -0700 | travel-news
30 April 2013 A horrifying dashcam video has captured the terrifying moment that a plane plummeted out of the sky and crashed in Afghanistan over the weekend. Seven crew members of a U.S.-run cargo plane were killed yesterday when the...
Former Minnesota man killed in cargo plane crash in Afghanistan
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-30 10:13:45 -0700 | travel-news
A 37-year-old former Pine Island, Minn., man was the pilot of a civilian cargo plane that crashed in Afghanistan on Monday, killing him and six other people on board, family members said. Jeremy Lipka had been flying cargo planes for...
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