By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 20, 2015 Afghan officials have expressed concerned over what they described as “the rapid advance of the Taliban” in Helmand Province and warned several areas in the southern province may fall to the militant group. In an open letter to President Ashraf Ghani via Facebook, Helmand Deputy Governor Mohammad
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 14, 2015 The U.S. Army on December 14 announced that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl — the U.S. soldier held captive for nearly five years by the Afghan Taliban — is being charged with desertion and “misbehavior before the enemy” in a court-martial. Bergdahl — who walked off his post in Afghanistan on June
VOA News December 13, 2015 Officials in northwestern Pakistan say a bomb blast ripped through a busy clothing market Sunday, killing at least 23 people and wounding about 55 others. The explosion happened in Parachinar, the administrative center of the semi-autonomous Kurram tribal district on the Afghan border. Amjad Ali Khan, the political administrator of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 12, 2015 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is searching for two Afghan aircraft maintenance trainees who went missing this week, and will revoke the men’s visas, officials said December 11. The two men failed to report for duty December 7 at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. They are
Yahoo News: Bergdahl says he left his post because he wanted to create a crisis to alert high-level commanders to leadership problems within his unit, and had planned to trek 18 miles to Forward Operating Base Sharana, a larger military base, to voice his concerns. But when he realized he might not be welcomed there,
WCTV Eyewitness News: MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. – Moody Air Force Base says two of their male Afghan Air Force students did not report for duty Monday at their regular maintenance training… The students have trained alongside American counterparts for the entirety of 2015 and do not pose any apparent threat. Click here to read