Afghanistan

2 US Soldiers Death During Shootout In Afghanistan

FrancesLee News, old Afghanistan, Afghanistan Two American, Death, NATO, soldiers, war

(KABUL, Afghanistan) — Two American soldiers were killed Thursday in a shooting by an Afghan soldier and a literacy teacher at a joint base in southern Afghanistan, officials said, the latest in a series of deaths as anti-Americanism rises following the burning of Qurans by U.S. soldiers. Both were killed on the same day that […]

Is the War Really Over?

FrancesLee old, Politics Afghanistan, end, Iraq, Obama, war

This War Is Not Over Yet By MARY L. DUDZIAK Published: February 15, 2012 THE defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, recently announced that America hoped to end its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2013 as it did in Iraq last year. Yet at Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere, the United States continues to hold enemy detainees […]