WASHINGTON (AP) — Far from ending the two wars he inherited from the Bush administration, Barack Obama is wrestling with an expanded set of conflicts in the final months of his presidency, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Libya and Syria,…
Afghanistan
Pentagon: US airstrike targets Taliban leader Mullah Mansour
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansour in an airstrike Saturday near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Defense Department said, and a U.S. official said Mansour was believed to have been killed. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said…
Suicide attack kills 12 new Afghan army recruits
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 12 new army recruits have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad, a hospital official said on Monday. Twelve bodies had been taken into the main regional hospital in…
Obama forced again to rethink troop numbers in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifteen years into the war that few Americans talk about any more, conditions in Afghanistan are getting worse, preventing the clean ending that President Barack Obama hoped to impose before leaving office. Violence is on the rise,…
Charges Possible: US suspends airmen, soldiers over Afghanistan hospital strike that killed civilians
WASHINGTON — American soldiers and airmen who killed and wounded dozens of civilians in a strike on an Afghanistan hospital violated U.S. rules of engagement and have been suspended as they await disciplinary action that could include criminal charges, military…
Video: Taliban suicide bombers attack Afghanistan parliment
Early this morning, a coordinated Taliban attack on the Afghan parliament in Kabul has ended with all 6 gunmen killed, the interior ministry says. Attackers detonated a huge car bomb outside the gates, stormed the compound, then entered a building…
