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Capt. Niloofar Rahmani, 25, is the first female pilot in the Afghani military since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 She traveled to the US last summer for training with the US Air Force which finished on Thursday - and was supposed to return Saturday, yet did not Afghanistan's first female pilot to serve in the air force since the fall of the Taliban has applied for asylum in the United States. Capt.
A Pennsylvania woman held hostage in Afghanistan for four years appeared in a video Monday with her husband and two children - both born in captivity -- and pleaded to President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump to secure their release. Caitlan Coleman, 31, of York County, appeared in the video with her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, and their boys.
Why the surprise? To those who haven't been asleep at the wheel, or disinterested in paying attention, the fact that a far-right military-industrial junta will take over the government of the United State on January 20, 2017 comes as no surprise. It's been in the works since Eisenhower.
A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, "inappropriately shared" classified information with foreign military officers in Afghanistan, newly released documents show. Although Flynn lacked authorization to share the classified material, he was not disciplined or reprimanded after the investigation concluded that he did not act "knowingly" and that "there was no actual or potential damage to national security as a result," according to Army records obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday ... . Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, right, hugs U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left, after a press conference at presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016.
A third Fort-Hood Soldier died of his wounds Wednesday from a November suicide attack at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced. Two other Fort Hood Soldiers , Staff Sergeant John Perry and Private First Class Tyler Iubelt were killed when the improvised explosive device hit.
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the former prisoner of war who's accused of endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan, is asking President Barack Obama to pardon him before leaving office.
U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl leaves a courthouse after an arraignment hearing for his court-martial in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in December 2015. A U.S. Army sergeant charged with desertion for leaving his combat post in Afghanistan in 2009 has asked President Barack Obama for a pardon.
US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the former prisoner of war who's accused of endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan, is asking President Barack Obama to pardon him before leaving office.
Hamidullah Amiri sometimes wakes in the middle of the night from the same nightmare. He's back in that village in eastern Afghanistan, a cluster of the men he called friends and colleagues--U.S. Navy Seals--just behind him, and a man has just stepped from a house, lifting a gun toward them from his cloak.
The State Department on Friday released a 2009 email chain that shows then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton forwarding to her daughter material that the department classified last year. At issue is a December 2009 email that President Barack Obama's trade adviser, Michael Froman, sent to senior White House and State Department staff members.
That's remarkable, given the enormous U.S. investment in blood and treasure over the past 15 years - including two American deaths on Thursday - the resilience of the Taliban insurgency and the risk of an Afghan government collapse that would risk empowering extremists and could force the next president's hands. In addition to the two service members killed on Thursday, four others were wounded while assisting Afghan forces in the northern city of Kunduz.
Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, Pentagon officials said. Although the number of disappearances is relatively small -- some 2,200 Afghan troops have received military training in the United States since 2007 -- the incidents raise questions about security and screening procedures for the programs.
The movie is based on Hegar's memoir 'Shoot Like A Girl: How One Woman's War Against the Taliban Led to Her Victory Over the Department of Defense.' Actress Angelina Jolie is in early negotiations to star in the adaptation of Shoot Like a Girl , based on the memoir of US Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar.
Guessing the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is notoriously hard because the secretive Norwegian Nobel Committee isn't dropping any hints, except that 376 people and groups have been nominated for the award, which will be announced on Oct. 10. That doesn't stop Nobel watchers from speculating, sometimes based on their own preferences or the small number of nominations that were made public by those who submitted them. This year they include Pope Francis, the Afghan women's cycling team, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the White Helmets rescue group in Syria and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who escaped sexual slavery and has become a spokeswoman for those abused by Islamic State militants.
Washington, Sep 29: Expressing concern over initial indications that the Uri terror attack emanated from Pakistan, two influential US Senators today called on Islamabad to fully cooperate with India to bring to justice the perpetrators. "We are greatly concerned about initial indications that the perpetrators of this attack were Pakistani and that the attack emanated from Pakistan.
Washington: Hillary Clinton is accusing Donald Trump of giving "aid and comfort" to Islamic terrorists, declaring his anti-Muslim rhetoric helps the Islamic State group and other militants recruit new fighters. Trump is insisting the US should "use whatever lawful methods are available" to get information from the Afghan immigrant arrested in this weekend's bombings.
The foggy aftermath of Gary Johnson's "What is Aleppo?" gaffe revealed how little U.S. policymakers know about ISIS The 2016 campaign story of the week seemed to be Gary Johnson's blunder during an MSNBC interview when he shockingly asked, "What is Aleppo?" That story, though, is really only the tip of the iceberg. The real story is the response to his gaffe.
An American soldier was killed Tuesday during an anti-Taliban operation near the capital of the southern Afghan province of Helmand, US-led NATO forces said. The news comes after NATO on Monday announced the deployment of around 100 US troops to Lashkar Gah to help head off a potential Taliban takeover as fighting intensifies.