Watchdog warns of waste in Afghan aircraft buy
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is spending more than three-quarters of a billion dollars to buy Russian-made helicopters and other aircraft for an Afghan aviation unit
U.S.: Taliban must show good faith in Afghan talks
DOHA, Qatar — The Taliban signaled a willingness to meet demands to keep their flag lowered as the U.S. warned Saturday that their newly opened
U.S. tries saving Taliban talks after Afghan president objects
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants.
Soldier to admit Afghan massacre
SEATTLE — Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was “crazed” and “broken” when he slipped away from his remote southern Afghanistan outpost and attacked mud-walled compounds in
Karzai says U.S. can have 9 Afghan bases after 2014
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has irked Washington with his frequent criticism of American military operations in his country, said Thursday that
Father: Slain diplomat died doing what she loved
The family of an American diplomat who was among those killed in a terrorist attack in southern Afghanistan has taken solace in knowing she died doing what she loved.
Karzai says he’ll ban airstrike requests
Angry over civilian deaths, President Hamid Karzai announced plans Saturday to ban Afghan security forces from requesting international airstrikes on residential areas.
Risk is at heart of troop withdrawal debate
WASHINGTON — The debate over how many U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after 2014 comes down to risky business. There is a risk that
Review: Kabul Bank sent millions of dollars abroad
Hundreds of millions of dollars from Kabul Bank were spirited out of Afghanistan — some smuggled in airline food trays — to bank accounts in more than two dozen
Testimony: US soldier knew he killed Afghans
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales made a mid-massacre confession, asked for help bleaching his blood-stained clothing and deliberately destroyed his laptop computer, fellow soldiers have testified — statements that prosecutors say show he knew what he was doing the night 16 civilians were slaughtered in two villages in southern Afghanistan.
Al-Qaida in Afghanistan is attempting a comeback
A diminished but resilient al-Qaida, whose 9/11 attacks drew America into its longest war, is attempting a comeback in Afghanistan’s mountainous east even as U.S. and allied forces wind down their combat mission and concede a small but steady toehold to the terrorist group.
Panetta: U.S. surge troops out of Afghanistan
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — The 33,000 additional U.S. troops that President Barack Obama ordered to Afghanistan to tamp down the Taliban attacks nearly two years
Tough words from general on Afghan insider attacks
The persistent problem of rogue Afghan soldiers and police turning their guns on U.S. and allied troops is a “very serious threat” to the war effort, which is predicated on placing security responsibility in Afghan hands, the U.S. military’s top officer said Sunday.
U.S. hands over Bagram prison to Afghans
U.S. officials handed over formal control of Afghanistan’s only large-scale U.S.-run prison to Kabul on Monday, even as disagreements between the two countries over the thousands of Taliban and terror suspects held there marred the transfer.
Greenwood native killed in Afghanistan
U.S. Army Pfc. Patricia Horne enjoyed serving her country as a member of one of the Army’s elite units.
“She told me a few weeks ago that she was going to re-enlist,” her mother, Betty Horne, told the Greenwood Commonwealth Monday. “The Army would pay for her schooling. She wanted to be a doctor.”
Unfortunately, the 20-year-old didn’t get that chance.
Afghan militants hit U.S. military chief’s plane
ilitants fired rockets into a U.S. base in Afghanistan and damaged the plane of the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff while he was on a visit, but the general was not near the aircraft, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military coalition said today.
Panetta prods Karzai on Afghan insider killings
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to discuss the rising number of “insider” attacks in which Afghan security forces have turned their guns on American and other coalition troops.
Three US troops killed by man in Afghan army uniform
A man in an Afghan army uniform shot and killed three American service members this morning in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military command said, the third attack on coalition forces by their Afghan counterparts in a week. The Taliban claimed the shooter joined the insurgency after the attack.
Attorney: Suspect in soldier shooting was attacked
LOS ANGELES — An attorney says the man jailed in the critical wounding of an Afghanistan war veteran at a California homecoming party was being attacked and was on the ground when the shooting took place.
Lowndes County soldier injured in Afghanistan
A 19-year-old 101st Airborne Infantry soldier from Lowndes County suffered minor injuries Friday when his sergeant stepped on a homemade land mine in Afghanistan.