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Military plans to open more combat jobs to women by 2016
By 2016, women could be permitted to train for most ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
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Millions In 'Ghost Money' Paid To Afghanistan ...
The so-called "ghost money" was meant to buy ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
OPINION - All Media
Can Pakistan Make Peace Next Door?
Can the new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, broker a peace deal next door?Posted by Pamela Hogle
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Military plans to open more combat jobs to women by 2016
By 2016, women could be permitted to train for most combat roles, including infantry and artillery positions, under ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
US to open direct Taliban talks
The US is to open direct peace talks with the Taliban after more than 10 years of war in Afghanistan, senior White ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Taliban surge expected to continue
KABUL — In the latest in a series of dramatic Taliban attacks across Afghanistan, a team of seven heavily armed ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction
Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Senior Taliban militants killed by US drone strike in Pakistan
Pakistani officials report at least four people, including Taliban deputy Wali ur-Rehman, killed in North ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Lawmaker wants military to promptly alert Congress about drone strikes
A leading House Republican said Wednesday that he wants to require the U.S. military to “promptly” inform ...Posted by Pamela Hogle
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Millions In 'Ghost Money' Paid To Afghanistan President's Office, New York Times Reports
The so-called "ghost money" was meant to buy influence for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) but instead ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
A Desperate Situation at Guantánamo: Over 130 Prisoners on Hunger Strike, Dozens Being Force-Fed
Lawyers for the prisoners say more than 130 men are taking part in the hunger strike, which began in February. One ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
What America's Leaving Behind in Afghanistan: Trained Militias Accused of Rape and Murder
Despite some success in achieving security gains, the ALP program has been plagued by such problems as Taliban ...Posted by Tanya J. Maurer -
Afghan Girls School Poisoning: 74 Girls Poisoned in Suspected Taliban Gas Attack
Posted by Jack Powers
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Can Pakistan Make Peace Next Door?
Can the new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, broker a peace deal next door?Posted by Pamela Hogle -
The real Obama scandal: fighting illegal wars in Libya and Pakistan
The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are political sideshows. Obama's use of illegal force abroad is true concern ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
How the CIA's Bags of Cash Undermined the Afghanistan War
It’s the most understandable, intuitive and tempting mistake in geopolitics: secretly pay a powerful foreigner to ...Posted by Jack Powers -
The C.I.A.’s Angry Birds
Over the winter, I heard military commanders and White House officials murmur in hushed tones about how they would ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
The President's Priorities
Debt in 2014 will hit 78.2% of the economy. President Obama is pitching his new budget proposal as a fiscal peace ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Pakistan’s Precipitous Decline
Nuclear arms, sectarian violence, a too-powerful military and dysfunctional institutions make for a dangerous mix.Posted by Pamela Hogle
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Battle Rattle » Chow hall cutbacks in Afghanistan spark anger for some Marines
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These Soldiers Did the Boston Marathon Wearing 40-Pound Packs. Then They Saved Lives.
Tough Ruck soldiers clearing a path to victims Military Friends Foundation More MoJo coverage of the 2013 Boston ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Afghanistan 2014: How the US will Lose Yet another fruitless War (Jones)
Ann Jones writes at Tomdispatch.com: Kabul, Afghanistan — Compromise, conflict, or collapse: ask an Afghan what ...Posted by Randy Morrow -
Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley's New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert U.S. Warfare
(Multimedia) "We’re looking right now at a reality that President Obama has essentially extended the very policies that many ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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