The American military has failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, a Military Times investigation has revealed. The enormous data gap raises serious doubts about transparency in reported progress against the Islamic State, al-Qaida and the Taliban, and calls into question…
Kuwait Imposes Visa Ban on Five Muslim-Majority Countries…
Kuwait has ripped a page from the playbook of US President Donald Trump by suspending the issuance of visas for travelers native to Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Tourism, trade, and visitor visas from the nations have all been restricted, following an order from the Kuwaiti government to slap a “blanket ban” on possible […]
Aid worker killed by Navy SEALs in Afghanistan ‘secretly worked with Britain’s MI6’…
Obama’s Deadly Afghan Acquiescence by Ray McGovern…
Occasionally a New York Times writer like Mark Landler will be permitted to step up to the plate and write a sensible article about President “No Guts Obama” and how he caved in to folks whom he lacked the political courage to cross. Landler’s Jan. 1 article shows, among other things, how Obama’s bowing to […]
Germany: 54,000 Migrants Get Grants to Return Home in 2016…
German authorities approved government funding for more than 54,000 migrants to return to their homelands this year, authorities said Wednesday — paving the way for a significant increase in voluntary departures…
An Afghanistan Conference Without Afghanistan…
Afghanistan has expressed concern over a meeting in Moscow between China, Pakistan and Russia over the Afghan conflict. Experts say Pakistan is trying to forge an alliance to counter an Indian-Afghan partnership…
Video Released by the Taliban Shows Kidnapped U.S.–Canadian Family…
A new video from the Taliban features Canadian Joshua Boyle and his American wife Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped while hiking through Afghanistan in 2012. The video also includes two young boys who are apparently their children, born during their captivity. Coleman was seven months pregnant at the time of her capture…
GOP Rep: Army Engaged in ‘Retaliatory Pursuit’ of Former Green Beret…
A Republican congressman says that Army investigators have misinformed service leaders about a renewed probe into the 2010 death of a suspected Taliban bomb maker in Afghanistan as part of their “retaliatory pursuit” of a former Special Forces officer…
Lawsuit Aims to Hold 2 Contractors Accountable for C.I.A. Torture…
Nearly 15 years after the United States adopted a program to interrogate terrorism suspects using techniques now widely considered to be torture, no one involved in helping craft it has been held legally accountable. Even as President Obama acknowledged that the United States “tortured some folks,” …
Afghanistan: Military Confirms U.S. Troops Still Banned from Attacking Taliban…
Being a member of the Taliban is not a justification for U.S. troops to attack a terrorist in Afghanistan, even as the terrorist group expands its territorial control across the war-ravaged nation and security conditions continue to deteriorate…
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