This has been the deadliest year for international and U.S. troops since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. August was the deadliest month yet for U.S. soldiers in the country, with 51 troops killed. Forty-three U.S. troops have died so far this month. White House Weighs Afghan Strat...
Biden, who has long opposed the war in Afghanistan, stuck to his decision to withdraw troops by the end of the month as the U.S. approaches 20 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, despite pressure from lawmakers and other allied nations to extend the mission. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr...
Dr. Ian Bickford became AUAF president in March 2021, a time when every university leader was challenged with running a school during a pandemic, but with Afghanistan's political turmoil added on top. Bickford insisted the university is here to stay in Afghanistan. "It's important to us as...
That’s what this is all about: The right-wingers and their corporate sponsors are protecting a medieval and violent health care system that kills more Americans each year than all the Americans who have died in the war on terror since 2001, including the 3,000 victims of 9/11, and the...
wrote his memory “appeared to have significant limitations” and that “he did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” in 2015. Biden could not remember when he was vice president or the details of a debate about sending additional troops to Afghanistan, they ...
In the three years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, hundreds of people around the country — current and former military members, diplomats, intelligence officers, civilians from all walks of life — have struggled in obscurity to help the Afghans ...
Panetta noted the "incredible price" the U.S. military has paid in the wars since the 2001 attacks, 4,478 troops killed in Iraq and 1,648 on Afghanistan and more than 40,000 wounded in both conflicts. Late in afternoon, President Obama arrived from Shanksville to lay a wreath at the ...
s in ruins: unemployment is reaching Third World levels, foreclosures are hitting new record highs, andlending is still contractingat an alarming rate not seen since, yep, the Great Depression. So why would the Fed talk about pulling $1 trillion out of the economy,...