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Taliban attack international aid group in Afghanistan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban gunmen launched a coordinated attack on an international aid group’s guesthouse in an upscale Kabul neighborhood Friday, setting off a furious firefight that lasted several hours and renewing fears of the insurgents&...
Tags: Taliban, Armed Conflicts, Rebellions, Kabul (Afghanistan), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?
The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...
Tags: Immigration, Murder, Human Rights, Pakistan, Civil Rights
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Fourth U.S. drone victim influenced by Sept. 11, war
WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors. But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Afghanistan, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Jihad, Pakistan
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Boy Scouts set to vote on lifting gay youth ban
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Thursday’s vote on whether to lift the ban on gay youths in the Boy Scouts of America could symbolize a cultural shift. Texas businessman Barry Price was so disturbed by the prospect that he joined a protest Wednesday,...
Tags: Minority Groups, Elections, Social Organizations, Youth Organizations, Clubs and Associations
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Suicide bomb blast kills Afghan provincial leader, 12 others
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomb blast killed a top leader of a northern Afghan province and at least 12 other people Monday, the latest in a step-up of attacks by Taliban insurgents ahead of Washington’s planned troop withdrawal at the end of...
Tags: Taliban, NATO, Landforms, Emergency Incidents, Hamid Karzai
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Turkey leader to press Obama for greater U.S. role on Syria
WASHINGTON — President Obama faces a fresh test Thursday of his determination to steer clear of the civil war in Syria when he considers a desperate plea from a longtime U.S. ally. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to urge...
Tags: Ankara (Turkey), Turkey, Military Equipment, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israel
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Sexual assaults in military: 'Little monsters' now in charge
Paula Coughlin was grocery shopping in Jacksonville, Fla., when I caught up with her on the phone this week. If anyone has an interesting perspective on the U.S. military’s absurd inability to deal with sexual assault, it’s Coughlin. She is...
Tags: Sexual Assault, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Lotteries, Chuck Hagel, Assault
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Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?
The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has doubled to about 20 per 100,000. That translated to a record 324 suicides...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Afghanistan, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Medical Research, University of Utah
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Military's record on sexual assault: From bad to worse
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.Another day, another military sexual assault scandal. On Tuesday, a week after the Air Force announced its chief of sexual assault prevention had been arrested in Arlington, Va., on suspicion of drunkenly assaulting a woman in a parking lot, the Army...Tags: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault, F-bomb Dropping, Lee Baca, U.S. Army
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Obama says U.S. won't act alone on chemical weapons in Syria
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON--President Obama on Thursday ruled out any unilateral U.S action in response to the alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons, further reducing the chance of any forceful response to the crossing of what Obama had described as a “red line.&...Tags: Weaponry, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Government
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U.S. announces new sanctions against Syria
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions against the Syrian government Thursday, blacklisting four senior officials, a private television station that it said had colluded with Syrian authorities and an airline it accused of...
Tags: White House, Television Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Iran
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Afghan militants threaten more attacks after deadly bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan — A militant group said its attack Thursday on a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital marked a stepped-up campaign against the foreign presence in Afghanistan, and promised more such assaults. The suicide bombing killed six...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Taliban, Motorvehicle Accidents, NATO, Emergency Incidents
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