KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three Americans — a pediatrician and a father and son — were killed by an Afghan government security officer at a hospital Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on foreign civilians that has rattled aid workers, contractors and journalists. Another American, a female medical worker, was wounded in the […]
(CNSNews.com) – Seventy-four percent of the U.S. military personnel who have given their lives serving in the Afghan War died after Feb. 17, 2009, when President Barack Obama announced his first increase in the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan, according to CNSNews.com’s database of U.S. casualties in the war. In the more than […]
The end result of allowing Obama to arrange US foreign policy. When will you democrats concede that this man is a complete and utter failure at every aspect of our countries vital interests and impeach him for the high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, right, stands with Afghan President Hamid […]
Yesterday’s revelation in The Washington Post about the large portion of the U.S. intelligence budget going toward collection efforts on Pakistan is not surprising. What is surprising is that that the Obama Administration publicly downplays the terrorist threat that continues to emanate from the Afghanistan–Pakistan region. According to the article, based on documents released illegally […]
Newscom “The zero option is the Taliban dream option. An abrupt drawdown would pave the way for the Taliban to regain influence and cripple the U.S. ability to conduct counter-terrorism missions in the region,” Lisa Curtis of The Heritage Foundation stated in recent remarks at a conference on Afghanistan on Capitol Hill. Curtis was reacting […]
(CNSNews.com) – Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is planning to hold talks with jihadists, including the umbrella group known as the Pakistani Taliban, despite the failure of numerous similar initiatives over the past seven years. Campaigning ahead of the general election last May, Sharif pledged to negotiate a peace deal with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan […]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. State Department is planning to build two women’s dormitories for universities in Afghanistan, at a cost of up to $15 million. The State Department posted two solicitations for the construction of women’s dorms for Kabul University and Balkh University, last week. In conjunction with the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) […]
At least 14 people were killed and 30 wounded when a suicide car bomber struck outside the Supreme Court in the Afghan capital on Tuesday. The court lies a few hundred meters (yards) from the gates of the U.S. Embassy in a central part of Kabul. Police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said the bomber drove an […]
At Monday at approximately 7 a.m. EST, National Flight NCR102 from Bagram, Afganistan to Dubai, UAE with seven crewmembers on board crashed on takeoff at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, dashboard camera footage surfaced Tuesday morning on the website LiveLeak — and it provides more answers than you may even feel comfortable watching. Warning: You’ve probably […]
A cup of coffee at Starbucks won’t buy access to Iran’s official Press TV website, the media outlet claims, based on a blogger. The website, a propaganda mouthpiece for the government, was blocked at a Starbucks outlet last year, according to the blogger, named by Press TV as “N. Salem.” He supposedly asked Press TV, […]
