Saturday 31 May 2014

US soldier held in Afghanistan released



(FOX NEWS) Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only American solider held captive in Afghanistan, has been released, President Obama said Saturday.

American Soldier Held Captive by Taliban in Afghanistan Freed After Being Held for Nearly 5 Years



Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only American solider held captive in Afghanistan, has been released by the Taliban in exchange for five Afghan ...

HV Congressman Discusses Trip To Afghanistan



A Hudson Valley congressman recently visited Afghanistan as part of a bipartisan delegation. He returned from his four-day trip the day President ...

Navy Seals transported Sergeant Bergdahl from Afghanistan



Navy Seals transported Sergeant Bergdahl from Afghanistan. May. 31, 2014 - 2:41 - Jennifer Griffin reports from Washington, D.C.. Interact with the ...

US Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl freed in Afghanistan, last unaccounted for soldier



After nearly five years in captivity, the last servicemember unaccounted for from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been freed in exchange for five ...

Afghanistan 2016 withdrawal keeps secret Bagram detainees in limbo



The Guardian reports: President Barack Obama's decision to keep American troops in Afghanistan until 2016 is likely to mean two more years behind ...

Bowe Bergdahl, American POW in Afghanistan, is free



The soldier, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, was handed over to American Special Operations forces inside Afghanistan about 10:30 a.m. Saturday by a group of ...

Our only POW in Afghanistan is now free



Bowe Bergdahl, our only POW in Afghanistan is now free. Apparently this required some sort of prisoner exchange for 5 Taliban leaders held in ...

Four Arrested in Lahore Stoning Case; Report: Al Qaeda Growing in Afghanistan



Bonus Read: "What Obama Missed in Afghanistan," Frances Z. Brown and Dipali Mukhopadhyay (SouthAsia). Pakistan. Four arrested in connection ...

US Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Freed In Afghanistan



U.S. officials say the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is in U.S. custody.

US soldier held in Afghanistan is released



CNN) -- Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the American soldier held captive for nearly five years by militants during the Afghanistan war, has been released, the ...

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl Freed in Afghanistan



On Saturday, June 31, 2014, Americans learned that Prisoner of War Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had been released in Afghanistan.

Only American POW from Afghan war 'broke down' after being freed



WASHINGTON — The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed by the Taliban in exchange for the release of five Afghan ...

Taliban in Afghanistan release U.S. soldier from captivity



Washington — The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is back in U.S. custody after nearly five years of captivity, ...

US soldier held in Afghanistan freed



The only US soldier held by the Taliban in Afghanistan is freed in a deal that includes the release of five Afghans held at Guantanamo, US officials say.

US solider freed from captivity in Afghanistan



WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is in U.S. custody. The officials say ...

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Lone American Taken Prisoner in Afghanistan, Safely Returned



Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the only American soldier to have been captured in Afghanistan, was released and returned to U.S. special operations ...

US Soldier Freed From Captivity in Afghanistan



The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is back in U.S. custody after nearly five years of captivity, U.S. officials said ...

Marines Return from Afghanistan to Ransacked Home



The Marine Scout Sniper returned on Memorial Day weekend to learn that thousands of dollars worth of his belongings were missing. Continue ...

Afghanistan assures India on safety of embassy, missions



Afghanistan will see a run-off on June 14 between former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani to elect a ...

White House exposes CIA's top spy in Afghanistan, Edward Snowden goes on NBC: Spy games ...



President Barack Obama shakes hands at a troop rally at Bagram Airfield, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, during an unannounced visit, on Sunday, May ...

Roadside bomb kills 14 civilians in eastern Afghanistan



From Yahoo News: Ghazni (Afghanistan) (AFP) - A roadside bomb killed 14 civilians in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest ...

Rep. Maloney Departs Afghanistan After Meeting Troops



Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) left Afghanistan May 27 following a four-day bipartisan Congressional Delegation (CODEL) visit. In addition to ...

Alaskan Soldiers Injured in Afghanistan, Iraq Still Receiving Care



For more than 12 years, U.S. troops have served in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and during that time thousands have been injured while on duty.

Ashad Ali Adubarey face plants before penalty kick [Maldives-Afghanistan]



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Sister honors brother killed in Afghanistan



A woman from the East Coast will be in Rancho Bernardo Saturday for an event that will honor military heroes, including her younger brother -- a Navy ...

Taliban attack Pakistani army posts, kill soldier



ISLAMABAD — The Taliban attacked several military posts in northwestern Pakistan after crossing over from neighboring Afghanistan on Saturday, ...

Roadside bombing kills 12 Afghan civilians



KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan official says a roadside bombing in the country's east has hit two cars, killing 12 civilians. The attack took place on ...

Friday 30 May 2014

Wounded US vets return to Afghanistan to confront demons



But this week, after dozens of surgeries, Navarro returned to Afghanistan in an army uniform, flying in a military helicopter with another soldier ...

Leaving Afghanistan After Its Enormous Costs



Leaving Afghanistan After Its Enormous Costs By JBS President John F. McManus President Obama's announcement that U.S. forces will be pulled ...

After Afghanistan, then what?



A day earlier, he had spoken briefly at the White House about his plans to reduce the number of American troops in Afghanistan from their present ...

Meet Afghanistan's wheelchair basketball team



Afghanistan's national wheelchair basketball team is only four years old, but this week the 15 man team embarked on their first ever international tour ...

Afghanistan's wheelchair hoop stars make world debut



Afghanistan has up to two million people living with some form of disability out of a population of 29 million people. They have led lives of quiet ...

Soldiers killed in Afghanistan added to Fort Bliss Field of Honor Memorial



Daehling was one of ten Fort Bliss soldiers from the 1st Armored Division who lost their lives in Afghanistan in 2013 and whose names were added to ...

Meet Afghanistan's wheelchair basketball team



Afghanistan's national wheelchair basketball team is only four years old, and up to now had never played outside Afghanistan. But this week the ...

Atlantic Council Event with Afghanistan Presidential Candidate Featured



His pledge came only days after US President Barack Obama said the 32,000 American forces in Afghanistan will be scaled back to 9,800 by early ...

Afghanistan boy seeks free treatment



NEW DELHI: Denied treatment by AIIMS for not being able to pay its cost, the Afghan refugee parents of a four-year-old boy, who requires a bone ...

US to keep 10k troops in Afghanistan in 2015



WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, Tuesday, announced the United States plans to keep nearly 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan next ...

Bestselling author will discuss riveting new memoir about life after escaping Afghanistan



Within 48 hours of arriving in Afghanistan, she was frantically dialing the U.S. Embassy and devising an escape route for her and her son. Deborah's ...

Report: Commanders properly classified video



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Graphing the Afghanistan Surge Out of Existence



So how did the White House make Obama's surge of troops into Afghanistan disappear? Consider this graph of troop levels in Afghanistan, where we ...

How to keep Afghanistan on the right track



Working together, Afghans and Americans have built a foundation that will enable Afghanistan to seize a brighter future and work to fight the forces of ...

Eye on Pakistan, Afghanistan? Xi wants Xinjiang borders sealed to keep out jihadis



BEIJING: Chinese president Xi Jinping has called for erecting "nets spread from the earth to the sky" to check the movement of terrorists in the ...

BCCI keeps Afghanistan, Nepal waiting



Read 'BCCI keeps Afghanistan, Nepal waiting' on Yahoo Cricket India. The BCCI has kept the Afghanistan Cricket Board and Cricket Association of ...

A Warlord, a Drug Smuggler, and a Killer: Meet Afghanistan's Once and Future Kings



That's not the setup to a joke — it's the punchline to America's failed intervention in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama said yesterday that US ...

The US leaving Afghanistan is ending a long commitment, not cutting and running



Yes, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan are unstable countries experiencing or threatened by civil war, but that is largely beyond our control. The Post seems ...

Thornton soldier killed in Afghanistan



Wykstra joined the Army last year and was deployed to Afghanistan in January. (KUSA-TV © 2014 Multimedia Holdings Corporation). Copyright 2014 ...

Fighting for Human Rights in Afghanistan



Joseph P. Federici '08, general counsel at the American University of Afghanistan, credits two international law classes in his last year at Rutgers ...

Afghanistan



The IFLR1000's financial and corporate law rankings for Afghanistan. The publication provides annual rankings and firm-by-firm editorial, including ...

Afghanistan, Nepal waiting for BCCI's response



New Delhi: It has been atleast six months since the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) and Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) had requested BCCI to ...