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WASHINGTON (AP) — Official: 2 US troops among 6 killed when suicide bomber struck NATO convoy in Afghanistan. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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Official: 2 US troops among 6 killed when suicide bomber struck NATO convoy in Afghanistan
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2013
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No Comments »NATO’s Plan for Afghanistan Post-2014: A ‘Stable Instability’
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2013
KABUL – Many Americans think we’re winding down in Afghanistan by the end of next year, for better or for worse. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Afghanistan, instability, NATO's, plan, post2014, Stable No Comments »Company IDs 7 killed in Afghanistan plane crash
Posted by admin on May 1st, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — Building model planes and working on real ones comprised Gary Stockdale's passion, filling the family's basement with models in his youth, jumping into aviation as a career at age 16 — and later working at two Detroit area airports. Tweet This Post
Kerry to visit family of U.S. diplomat killed in Afghanistan
Posted by admin on April 15th, 2013
TOKYO (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday he will go to Chicago on his return from a 10-day overseas tour to visit the family of a young diplomat who was killed in Afghanistan earlier this month. Anne Smedinghoff, 25, was killed along with four other Americans in a car bomb blast [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Afghanistan, diplomat, Family, Kerry, Killed, U.S., Visit No Comments »Six Americans Killed in Afghanistan in Separate Attacks
Posted by admin on April 6th, 2013
By LUIS MARTINEZ, NICK SCHIFREN and ALEEM AGHA Six Americans, including three civilians, were killed today in Afghanistan in two separate incidents. U.S. officials confirm that five Americans were killed in a car bomb blast in Qalat, the capital of the southern Afghan province of… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Joint chiefs chairman in Afghanistan for talks
Posted by admin on April 6th, 2013
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The top American military officer has arrived in Afghanistan to meet U.S. and allied commanders and consult with Afghan officials on winding down the war. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
From a Bloody Battle in Afghanistan to the Pitchers Mound at Nationals Park
Posted by admin on April 1st, 2013
Most people who recover from this injury never get to take the mound at opening day of a professional baseball game. With Taliban insurgents attacking his unit, the soldier looked down at his bloodied arm. A rocket-propelled grenade had exploded nearby, and the shrapnel had torn up his right side. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Afghanistan, battle, Bloody, From, Mound, nationals, Park, Pitchers No Comments »Kerry heads home after Iraq, Afghanistan visits
Posted by admin on March 27th, 2013
PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is headed for home after making clandestine journeys to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he delivered a stern warning to Iraqi leaders about Syria and sought to patch up differences with Afghanistan’s president. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Former US Commander in Afghanistan John Allen Hopeful, Realistic About Country’s Future
Posted by admin on March 26th, 2013
Gen. John Allen, the former commander of international forces in Afghanistan, said Afghan security forces have proven themselves to be more capable than anyone expected, and will be ready to take over securing the country 2014. “They turned out to be better than we thought…. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: 'realistic', about, Afghanistan, Allen, commander, country's, Former, future, hopeful, John No Comments »Kerry in Afghanistan to prod Karzai on future ties
Posted by admin on March 25th, 2013
KABUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew into Afghanistan on an unannounced visit Monday to see President Hamid Karzai amid concerns the Afghan president may be jeopardizing progress in the war against extremism with his anti-American rhetoric. He arrived shortly after the U.S. military ceded control of its last detention facility in [...]
