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Battlefield Commander’s Case Goes to Guantánamo Jury
New York Times· 1 day agoThe panel is deciding a sentence for a prisoner who pleaded guilty to commanding Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan that carried out war crimes. A...
‘I was thrown on to the slag heap by the MOD, but now a weight has been lifted’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThere he led a team of bomb hunters finding and defusing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hidden...
Fleeing Kabul, chasing gold - the story of a refugee Olympian
BBC via Yahoo Sports· 1 day agoFarzad Mansouri was the teenage flagbearer for his nation at the last Olympics. Three years on,...
Afghanistan: Spring Stumbles Into View
Strategy Page· 1 day agoMay 18, 2018: Increased American support (airstrikes, Special Forces, less restrictive rules of engagement and more intel) has boosted the morale and effectiveness of the Afghan security forces ...
What to Know About Suicides in the U.S. Army
New York Times· 2 days agoA Times investigation into the death of Specialist Austin Valley, stationed at Fort Riley in Kansas...brigade leadership and often fail to act in the...
Battling bureaucracy after burn pits: Why are contractors left behind?
Military Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe hundreds of thousands of private contractors who served alongside uniformed service members in...
Germany Weighs Copying UK Asylum Plan as Scholz Faces Pressure
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 9 hours ago...Across US Halt Services After CyberattackCDK Tells Car Dealers Their Systems Likely Offline...
War Veterans and Family Testify at Al Qaeda Commander’s War Crimes Tribunal
New York Times· 6 days agoVictims of insurgent attacks in wartime Afghanistan described their loss to a jury at Guantánamo Bay...
World Refugee Day: The faces behind the numbers
Al Jazeera· 1 day agoThe rest are refugees in need of protection (43.4 million) and people who are seeking asylum (6.9 million), according to the annual displacement report...
Meet Jp Lawrence, who goes from covering the Middle East to southwest Minnesota
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt was on the 45-minute bus ride to and from school in Redwood Falls that Jp Lawrence began to mold...
