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Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning had reason to believe leaks would hurt U.S., prosecutors say
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning had reason to believe that leaking U.S. military reports "would cause injury" to the country, federal prosecutors alleged in a newly unsealed court filing on Monday. In the affidavit submitted to federal court ...
Taliban fighters stormed army checkpoints in southern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border overnight, killing 20 troops, an official said Tuesday. Eight other security forces were also wounded in Monday night's attack in Shorabak district, Mohammad Yousof Younosi, a provincial council member in Kandahar, said. An official ...
A U.S. Marine killed this week in Afghanistan was honored five years ago for rescuing a woman from a burning high-rise while serving with the Fire Department of New York, the city's mayor and fire commissioner said on Tuesday. Christopher Slutman, a 15-year FDNY member, ...
Taliban take credit after Afghanistan suicide blast kills three U.S. troops and contractor
A suicide bomber in a vehicle killed three U.S. troops and a military contractor Monday while targeting their convoy near Bagram Air Base, officials said, after the Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast. The attack is the latest to hit American forces amid an ongoing, ...
Footage shows U.K. soldiers shooting at image of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
Britain's military said Wednesday it had launched an investigation after soldiers were filmed apparently using a picture of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for target practice. Footage posted on social media showed members of the Parachute Regiment in Afghanistan shooting at an image of Corbyn, ...
In war-weary Afghanistan, fighters swap Kalashnikovs for cricket bats and pads
During a lull in Afghanistan's never-ending war, before the fighting season resumes once again in the spring, Taliban fighters recall laying down their Kalashnikovs and, for a brief moment, enjoying a game of cricket. The sport is the only one most of the fighters enjoy, ...
Back home, Afghan veterans of Syria war seen as Iran's pawns and potential terrorists
An impoverished teenager, Mehdi, joined the wave of Afghans who left their homeland, dreaming of reaching Europe to find work. Where he ended up was entirely different: On the battlefields of Syria's civil war, in a militia created by Iran. Mehdi was one of tens ...
How the Americans can escape the graveyard of empires
The key will be persuading both sides to accept a compromise that is far from perfect for either, but allows Afghanistan to move forward.
In valley where Soviets were routed, Afghans are uneasy about prospect of U.S. withdrawal
The last time Abdul Karim saw Soviet forces he was a teenage mujahedeen fighter shivering on an Afghan mountainside, clutching his Kalashnikov and wondering if winter or the Russians would bring death first. "But then I heard (mujahedeen commander) Ahmad Shah Massoud over the walkie ...
Long a spoiler, Pakistan quietly starts aiding U.S.-Taliban talks
Pakistan, long at odds with the United States over the war in Afghanistan, has begun to play a behind-the-scenes but central role in supporting U.S. peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, including by facilitating travel to negotiations, U.S. officials and Taliban sources say. The Pakistani ...
U.S. rebukes Germany for deporting wanted Islamic militant to Turkey
The United States sharply rebuked Germany on Thursday for deporting a wanted Islamic militant to Turkey instead of extraditing him to New York to stand trial on terror-related charges. Adem Yilmaz, a Turkish citizen, has been charged by a U.S. federal grand jury with conspiring ...
By abandoning Afghanistan, the Trump administration is repeating one of the worst foreign policy mistakes of the past few decades.
