Vice President Mike Pence swooped into Afghanistan for a secret visit with U.S. troops, pointing to progress four months after President Donald Trump announced a new strategy to end a stalemate in America’s longest war. Pence’s unannounced trip was the first to the war-ravaged country by either Trump or the […]
Defense: Bowe Bergdahl had a tough childhood
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s difficult childhood and washout from Coast Guard boot camp stoked serious psychiatric disorders that helped spur him to walk off his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009, a psychiatrist testified Wednesday. Dr. Charles Morgan, called as a defense witness at Bergdahl’s sentencing hearing, said the soldier […]
5 dead, 20 injured in attack near US Embassy
A suicide bomber struck near the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital on Tuesday, killing five people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Health Ministry spokesman Wahid Mujro said another 20 people were wounded in the blast, which took place in a heavily-guarded area housing several diplomatic missions […]
Wife of wounded soldier takes the stand at Bergdahl hearing
Emotional testimony is expected Monday when the wife of a seriously wounded soldier takes the stand during the sentencing hearing for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Prosecutors told a judge that they intend to call Shannon Allen to the stand to discuss a traumatic brain injury suffered by her husband when […]
Taliban attacks kills dozens in Afghanistan
The Taliban have killed at least 58 Afghan security forces in a wave of attacks across the country, including an assault that nearly wiped out an army camp in the southern Kandahar province, officials said Thursday. The attack on the army camp took place late on Wednesday and involved two […]
SHOCKING twist in Taliban hostage situation
The parents of an American woman freed with her family after five years of captivity say they are elated, but also angry at their son-in law for taking their daughter to Afghanistan. “Taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place, to me, and the kind of person I am, […]
U.S.-Afghan forces take down top al-Qaeda leaders
An Afghan official says a joint U.S. and Afghan military operation in eastern Paktika province killed two al-Qaeda linked leaders and led to the capture of a third. Paktika provincial governor’s spokesman Mohammad Rahman Ayaz says the battle in a remote mountainous region on the border with Pakistan’s North Waziristan […]
Tragic! 1 US soldier killed, 2 wounded in Afghanistan
One U.S. Army soldier was killed and two others were injured in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Wednesday. The U.S. said that Pfc. Hansen B. Kirkpatrick, 19, of Wasilla, Alaska, was killed Monday by indirect fire in Helmand Province. He was assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of […]
See ya! Germany begins deporting illegal immigrants and refugees
The German government said Thursday it will continue to deport people to Afghanistan if they are considered a threat, have committed crimes or persistently refuse to reveal their identity. The government earlier had said it would consider each deportation on a case-by-case basis following Wednesday’s deadly attack in Kabul, which […]
Tragic! Car bomb in Afghanistan kills 90, injures hundreds more
A massive suicide car bombing rocked a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul on Wednesday morning, killing 90 people and wounding as many as 400, an attack that left a scene of mayhem and destruction and sent a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital. The target of the […]