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Drone strike reportedly kills a long-sought target in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For three long years, the CIA hunted the Pakistani militant who had helped send a suicide bomber deep into a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan. The audacious mission killed seven U.S. intelligence officers and contractors, one...
Tags: Pakistan, Government, White House, Emergency Incidents, NATO
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Scanning the road for bombs on a final patrol in Afghanistan
KHOGIANO, Afghanistan — Spc. Kyle Klobuchar spends his days listening intently to the beeps, hums and warbles of a hand-held explosives detector known as a Minehound. He likes to think of the tones as the warble of either a baby turkey, adolescent...
Tags: Weaponry, Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions, Suicide, Emergency Incidents
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Choosing sides in Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai has been president of Afghanistan for a long time — since the end of 2001, when he was installed by a U.S.-led alliance. At the time, he seemed a charming, English-speaking leader with a colorful wardrobe who could craft a democratic,...
Tags: Police Investigations, Qayum Karzai, U.S. Elections, Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions
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Bales on Afghan village massacre: 'Sir, I intended to kill them'
The U.S. Army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in two villages pleaded guilty Wednesday in a move expected to spare him from the death penalty. And when a military judge asked Robert Bales, 39, why he slaughtered the men, women...
Tags: David Petraeus, FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, Military Justice, Lawyers
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19 Americans convicted for pro-democracy work in Egypt
CAIRO — The convictions Tuesday of 19 Americans who worked for pro-democracy groups highlight Egypt's long-standing resistance to broadening freedoms in a country that has veered from secular autocratic rule to an increasingly restrictive Islamist-...
Tags: Trials, Frank R Wolf, Punishment, Prosecution, Crimes
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Perils of peace conferences
Getting into wars is easier than getting out of them. Could the same logic apply to peace conferences? Indeed, could U.S. diplomacy — however well intentioned — actually make matters worse? Secretary of State John F. Kerry has two diplomatic...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Tehran (Iran), Wars and Interventions, Woodrow Wilson, John Kerry
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Rape of American woman in India shows how women travel with peril
The gang rape of a 30-year-old American woman in India on Tuesday is the latest horrific reminder that women travel in a more dangerous world than men. The woman was visiting a mountainous tourist area in northern India when she found herself stranded....
Tags: India, Sex Crimes, Entertainment, Rape
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McManus: Where's the enemies list?
Who exactly is the enemy in the continuing U.S. war against terrorism? In some cases, the answer is: It's a secret. When the United States began its war against Al Qaeda after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the identity of the enemy was clear: Osama...
Tags: Bashar Assad, U.S. Congress, Terrorism, Yemen, Dick Durbin
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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: Iraq, Afghanistan, Medical Research, Suicide, Concussion
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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: BBC, Immigration, Boston Marathon, Pakistan, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Firearms, Afghanistan, Bombings, Wars and Interventions
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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: Boy Scouts of America, Religious Events, Social Organizations, Elections, Social Issues
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