via BBC News The US military has suffered its 2,000th death in the Afghan war – with a suspected “insider” attack at a checkpoint in the east of the country. A US soldier and a foreign contractor were killed while two Afghan soldiers died and four were injured. The nationality of the contractor was not […]
via BBC News The US state department has issued a travel alert to Americans, warning of a heightened risk of violence worldwide in the wake of the killing of key al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki. The US-born radical Islamist cleric was killed by US drones in Yemen on Friday. The state department warned his death would […]
via New York Daily News U.S. military vessels began arriving in Japan Saturday as the international relief effort for the devastated island nation began to take shape. Dubbed Operation Tomodachi – Japanese for “friendship” – American forces based near Tokyo are leading military and humanitarian assistance missions from Europe, Asia and beyond. “We have units […]
