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Aug 05 2014
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U.S. General Is Killed in Attack at Afghan Base, Officials Say
An Afghan soldier shot a United States Army major general to death and wounded a German brigadier general and at least 14 other foreign and Afghan military service members on Tuesday at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, officials of the American-led coalition said Tuesday. The major general appeared to be the highest-ranking member of the American military to die in
New York Times (News)Apr 21 2014
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GOP’s McSally Attacks ‘War on Women’ Line
For one of the most aggressive rebuttals to the Republican “war on women” since Democrats adopted the line of attack a few years ago, look to Arizona Republican Martha McSally, the first American female combat pilot.
“I mean, I’m a woman warrior,” she declared in a speech during her 2012 House campaign. “I’ve been fighting for women’s rights and women’s equality my whole life. You want
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 26 2021
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GOP faces hurdles in push to make Afghanistan matter in the midterms
House Republicans hope to ride Joe Biden’s messy Afghanistan withdrawal to victory in the midterms. It won't be that easy.
With the GOP already in a strong position to retake the House next year, the president's first major foreign-policy crisis could give the party an additional boost as it tries to chip away at his popularity. But several factors threaten to undermine Republican
PoliticoAug 05 2014
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US general assassinated in 'green-on-blue' shooting at Afghan army training base
A man in an Afghan Army uniform opened fire Tuesday at a military base, killing a U.S. general officer and wounding 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops
Pentagon spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said that the assailant fired into a group of international soldiers at the Marshal Fahim National Defense University at Camp Qargha, a base west of
Fox News (Online News)Mar 14 2015
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ISIS Vows to Bomb 'White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower'
ISIS has declared its intention to "blow up your White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower," its official spokesman said in a new audio message.
An ISIS spokesman said Thursday that the organization had accepted a pledge of allegiance from the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram, Canada's National Post newspaper reported.
In a 28-minute Arabic-language audio, translated by the
Newsmax (News)Sep 07 2021
Headline Roundup
Taliban Announces New Government in Afghanistan
The Taliban announced the formation of a new acting government in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The government is all-male and includes several veteran Taliban leaders from the 1990’s government. Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, who served as deputy prime minister in the previous government, was named acting prime minister. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a Taliban co-founder who led negotiations with the
The Daily Caller Wall Street Journal (News) Al JazeeraNov 29 2019
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Trump Visits Afghanistan and Says He Reopened Talks With Taliban
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — President Trump paid an unannounced Thanksgiving visit to American troops in Afghanistan on Thursday and declared that he had reopened peace negotiations with the Taliban less than three months after scuttling talks in hopes of ending 18 years of war.
“The Taliban wants to make a deal, and we’re meeting with them,” Mr. Trump said during a meeting with
New York Times (News)Feb 24 2020
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NYT Publishes Taliban ‘Terrorist’ Op-Ed, All Hell Breaks Loose
Several Afghanistan experts, including the former commanding general of U.S. forces in the region and the chairman of the violence-plagued country’s biggest and most influential news media outlet, expressed outrage Thursday after the New York Times published the uncontradicted peace-talk musings of a man who is arguably one of the world’s most accomplished terrorists.
“It’s a disgrace
Daily BeastSep 01 2021
Headline Roundup
After Meeting With Him, Gold Star Families Criticize Biden's Conduct
President Joe Biden fielded criticism this week from some of the families of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the Kabul suicide bombing last Thursday. Biden met with some of the families Sunday at Dover Air Force Base and spoke with each privately; after the meetings, Biden and First Lady Jill Biden attended the final dignified transfer of the bodies of the 13. The family of Lance Cpl.
Washington Post New York Post (News) The Daily CallerAug 26 2021
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Biden's Afghan Evacuation Strategy
As evacuations continued this week for Americans and vulnerable Afghans out of Kabul, the conversation about Afghanistan shifted from the troop withdrawal itself to the Biden administration’s strategy for evacuation and withdrawal. Thursday’s suicide bombings, which killed at least 13 American soldiers and dozens of Afghans, added greater intensity to the debate. President Joe Biden once again
New York Times (Opinion) National Review (News) The Hill