Another Memorial Day in This Endless War
Source: Truthdig
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-22 19:22:39 -0700 | travel-news
May 22, 2013 In a remarkable but little-noticed oversight hearing last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee looked at The Law of Armed Conflict, the Use of Military Force, and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Congress on Sept. 14,...
"I protest": challenging the war policies of the United States
Source: Open Democracy
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-22 02:14:26 -0700 | travel-news
After serving in the US Army, and later as a diplomat, Colonel Ann Wright resigned her position in opposition to the US invasion of Iraq, 2003.. She explains her opposition to the use of drones, and why any demilitarism plan...
Rolling Thunder XXVI May 26, 2013: Until They Are Home
Source: Salem News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 20:22:21 -0700 | travel-news
Few things are more "American" than the roar of hundreds of thousands of bikers from all over the nation riding through Washington D.C. to the sound of cheering, flag waving supporters of our POW/MIA's and veterans. Each year bikers from...
Afghan interpreter's family killed by Taliban near Kandahar
Source: Toronto Star
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-23 21:43:23 -0700 | travel-news
Photos Save to mystar Photos View gallery When Sayed Shah Sharifi's family heard that distant relatives had been killed in a roadside bomb attack, they decided to pay their condolences to the survivors. On the morning of May 13, seven...
At War Blog: Married to the Marines
Source: The New York Times
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 13:22:43 -0700 | travel-news
Search This Blog Search Follow This Blog Special Series The New York Times followed the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division during their yearlong deployment in 2010. Remembering a Fallen...
Ranger posthumously awarded Silver Star at Fort Benning
Source: Ledger-Enquirer
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 13:12:12 -0700 | travel-news
Kubik, a Ranger with the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Battalion at Fort Benning, was posthumously awarded the Silver Star today for his actions during a 2010 raid in Afghanistan. It been a long time coming for this award, said platoon...
US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,091
Source: Miami Herald
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 11:48:21 -0700 | travel-news
The AP count is one less than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a.m...At least 1,732 military service members have died in Afghanistan as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. Outside of Afghanistan,...
Tales in a Kabul Restaurant
Source: The Progressive
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 10:51:01 -0700 | travel-news
Even with details culled from news reports, these data can't help but merge into one large statistic, something about terrible pain that's worth caring about but that is happening very far away...It's quite another to sit across from Afghan men...
Fasting to support Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers
Source: Red Pepper
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-23 22:01:43 -0700 | travel-news
We spoke to Maya Evans during her fast over the weekend in solidarity with Guantanamo Bay hunger-strikers Maya can you tell us about your fast? I'm taking part in a weekend of action in solidarity with the hunger strikers at...
Group: More Afghan women jailed for 'moral crimes'
Source: Fox News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 17:41:55 -0700 | travel-news
Afghanistan An international rights group says the number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months. Human Rights Watch says the increase may mean that authorities feel they no longer...
Roadside bomb kills 6 policemen in Afghanistan
Source: Fox News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 08:33:37 -0700 | travel-news
Afghanistan An Afghan official says a powerful roadside bomb has killed six policemen in the country's west. The officers' vehicle hit the explosives planted in the road they were driving on Tuesday morning in Herat province. District Police Chief...
Military Memo: Applying Early Lessons to Build Afghan Security
Source: The New York Times
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-20 18:18:33 -0700 | travel-news
The offensive was nearly aborted when a 2,000-pound bomb dropped from a high-altitude American B-52 fell on their position, a friendly fire catastrophe that killed three Green Berets and five Afghan militiamen and could have ended the life of the...
Afghan blast kills 14 people
Source: Qatar English Daily
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-20 15:27:03 -0700 | travel-news
A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing 14 people including a local politician in the latest attack to target provincial officials. Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the...
Salt Lake Tribune: Fort Bliss soldier, just turned 21, remembered as brave and charitable.
Source: El Paso Times
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-20 11:17:30 -0700 | travel-news
Name released of third Fort Bliss soldier killed in Afghanistan last week To the kids near Kandahar, Afghanistan, Army medic Pfc...Cody Towse, 21, died Tuesday when an improvised explosive device detonated. Military officials, who initially deemed him missing in action,...
With end of Afghan war in sight, Europe pushes business
Source: Chicago Tribune
Herāt :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-20 06:27:14 -0700 | travel-news
An Afghan policeman stands guard at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul May 16, 2013. The European Union threw its weight behind developing Afghanistan's small but promising private sector this week, in the hope that business can usher...
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