AP – As of Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, at least 581 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EST. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The US Defense Department on Monday confirmed it has a team of military advisers training the Pakistani army in counter-insurgency operations but said the program has been openly discussed for months, rejecting a newspaper report suggesting it was a “secret” project. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, made notorious by graphic pictures of abuse of inmates by US jailers, has reopened with top-of-the-range facilities and a new name, the justice ministry said on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – As of Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, at least 581 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EST. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – As of Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, at least 581 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EST. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A military court on Friday found a US soldier guilty of premeditated murder in the killings of four blindfolded Iraqi prisoners in 2007, a US Army spokesman said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The US Defense Department on Friday said it had finished a review ordered by President Barack Obama examining conditions at the Guantanamo prison to ensure inmates are held in keeping with the Geneva Conventions and other laws. Read the rest of this entry »
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