A NATO air strike in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Laghman has killed at least eight women, local officials say. NATO has conceded that between five and eight civilians died as it targeted insurgents, and offered condolences. Afghan President Hamid Karzai “strongly condemned” the deaths and has sent officials to the area to investigate. Earlier on Sunday, four US soldiers wi…
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Aesha Mohammadzai has made international headlines in 2010 when she appeared on the now-iconic cover of Time magazine with a gaping wound in the center of her face where a nose should be. Aesha Mohammadzai’s tragic tale of mutilation and abuse is well known by now: her Taliban husband and his family chopped off her nose and ears to punish her for trying to escape the family compound in Afgh…
Four-star general David Petraeus was a star on the battlefield, commanding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but his impeccable judgement failed him when he engaged in an extramarital affair with biographer Paula Broadwell that led to his downfall as CIA Director. Celebrated as a scholar and a warrior, the 60-year-old Princeton graduate is admired as much for his intellect as he was his tactical abi…
The US soldier accused of the Afghan massacre on Sunday, when he shot dead 16 civilians, had received body and brain injuries while serving in Iraq and was unhappy about going for another tour of duty, his lawyer John Henry Browne says. John Henry Browne said the soldier – who has not been named – had already completed three tours in Iraq. The lawyer also said the accused had witnesse…
Robert Bales, the soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar, including nine children, was trying to leave active service in response to financial problems, it emerged yesterday. Bypassed for a promotion and struggling to pay for his house, Robert Bales, 38, was eyeing a way out of his job at a Washington state military base months before he was deployed to Afghanistan. While Robe…
CIA Director David Petraeus resigned on Friday after allegedly having an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, it has been claimed. The alleged affair was uncovered after the FBI launched an investigation into the biographer, Paula Broadwell, for allegedly hacking into the former general’s email, NBC News and Slate reported. Paula Broadwell, who researched the book All In for three y…
The coterie of officers and advisers surrounding General David Petraeus had become suspicious of Paula Broadwell, now known to have been his mistress, due to her playful Facebook status updates they claim disclosed sensitive details of military operations in Afghanistan. Paula Broadwell, the woman who penned David Petraeus’s biography and ultimately began a romantic relationship with the ma…
Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is the soldier killed in the London machete attack near Woolwich Barracks. Lee Rigby, 25, from Manchester, leaves behind a two-year-old son. Two men are under arrest in hospital after police shot them near Woolwich Barracks on Wednesday afternoon, in the aftermath of the attack. The suspects, believed to include Michael Adebol…
A bomb planted by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan has destroyed 22 NATO fuel tankers carrying supplies to coalition forces, local officials say. The vehicles were hit by a pre-dawn explosion which triggered a huge fire that engulfed them in flames, they say. At the time, the trucks were parked overnight in Samangan province, as they headed from Uzbekistan towards NATO forces in the south. Pol…
Newly elected French President Francois Hollande celebrated his first-ever National Day (known outside of France as Bastille Day) as head of state on Saturday with usual pomp, military parade and flight show. At 10:00 a.m. local time, Francois Hollande presided the military parade down the Champs Elysees Avenue, which involved some 4,950 soldiers, 368 armored vehicles, 241 horses and 98 jets and…
16 NATO supply tankers transporting fuel for US-led forces in Afghanistan were set ablaze in a bomb attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. 28 trucks were parked at a terminal on the outskirts of the provincial capital Peshawar when an explosion triggered a fire that engulfed 16 of the vehicles, AFP reported. 16 NATO supply trucks set ablaze by Talibans in Pakistan Pakistan police official, Khur…
Two NATO soldiers have been shot dead in southern Afghanistan. NATO said the attack was carried out by “two individuals, one believed to be an Afghan National Army service member and the other in civilian clothing”. Hours earlier the head of NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen John Allen, said the recent violence over the burning of the Koran by US soldiers was a “setback” tha…
Sharah is an Afghan mother who has given birth to sextuplets at a hospital in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The mother was not aware she was carrying more than one child and had not received fertility treatment. Doctors say Sharah, 24, arrived in hospital on Monday and gave birth on the same day to three boys and three girls. It was her first pregnancy. Doctors say that having six children…
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales suspected of killing civilians in Afghanistan will be charged with 17 counts of murder, according to US officials. Robert Bales, 38, is accused of attacking the villagers in their homes in Kandahar province on 11 March. Most victims were women and children. He was later moved to a military prison in the US after being transported from Afghanistan to Kuwait. Robert Bales co…
Paula Broadwell sent an anonymous email to General John Allen about Florida socialite Jill Kelley, as she suspected Kelley of having a romantic relationship with David Petraeus as well. The cyber love triangle expanded as it was revealed today that John Allen was electronically connected with Paula Broadwell after he received an email from one of her dummy accounts. He then went on to tell Jill K…
President Barack Obama faced allegations of a major political cover-up last night over the resignation of CIA Director General David Petraeus, who had an affair with married Paula Broadwell. The US Congress is expected to investigate claims that the affair was hushed up to protect Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. It is believed the affair was discovered by the FBI months ago, but not made pub…
Sources close to the internal investigation into the David Petraeus scandal said that the commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan General John Allen exchanged emails likened to “phone sex” with 37-year-old Jill Kelley. General John Allen, who is married who two daughters and leads U.S. troops in Afghanistan denies any wrongdoing. Officials claim his emails to Jill Kelley, who is also married with…
Up to 12 Afghan civilians, 10 children and two women, have been killed in a NATO air strike in Shigal district. A further six women are believed to have been injured in the incident in Shigal district from Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan. NATO confirmed that “fire support” was used in Shigal after a US civilian adviser died in a militant attack, but said it had no reports of dea…
CIA director David Petraeus has resigned from his post after admitting an extramarital affair. In a statement, David Petraeus said he had submitted his resignation to President Barack Obama, and that he had shown “extremely poor judgement”. He described his behavior as “unacceptable” for the leader of the nation’s main intelligence agency. David Petraeus became CIA b…
Senior Pakistani militant leader Mullah Nazir has been killed by a US drone strike, security officials say. Mullah Nazir died with at least five fighters when two missiles struck his vehicle in the north-west tribal district of South Waziristan. He was leader of one of four major militant factions in Pakistan and was accused of sending fighters to Afghanistan in support of the Taliban. Mullah Naz…
The military scandal gripping America took an extraordinary twist yesterday, when a second general, John R. Allen, was linked to one of the two women who precipitated the fall of CIA director General David Petraeus. David Petraeus, 60, hailed by some as the finest officer of his generation, was forced to step down after the exposure of a scandal involving X-rated emails, compromised state secrets…
CIA World Factbook color-coded map reveals the startling difference in life expectancies across 222 of the world’s countries. The map shows how people are likely to live the longest in developed countries with state-funded healthcare systems like Japan, Canada and the UK, which each have average life expectancies of over 80 years. The tiny tax haven of Monaco – with its notoriously we…
President Hamid Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases after 16 civilians were shot dead by a U.S. soldier. In a near-simultaneous announcement, the Afghan Taliban said it was suspending nascent peace talks with the United States seen as a strong chance to end the country’s decade-long conflict, blaming “shaky, erratic and vague” U.S. st…
Two of four US Marines shown in a video appearing to urinate on Taliban corpses have been identified, a Marine Corps official said. The video, which was posted online, purports to show four US Marines standing over the bodies of several Taliban fighters, at least one of whom is covered in blood. The Marines have begun a criminal investigation and an internal inquiry. US officials and Afghan offic…
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