Articles Tagged with afghanistan

Bagram Air Base Attack: Four US Troops Killed

Bagram Air Base Attack

In a Bagram air base attack, four US troops were killed. A senior defense official has confirmed that four International Security Assistance Force members were killed in a mortar attack on the Afghanistan base. The four deaths are the result of an “indirect fire attack,” as reported by NBC News. The attack came on the… Read more »

Two US Soldiers Killed By Afghan Police Officer

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An Afghan police officer killed two US soldiers and two fellow Afghan police officers in a surprise attack Monday morning. The shooter died in the resulting firefight. An Afghan police officer stood up in the back of a police pickup truck with a machine gun and opened fire upon US special forces and Afghan policemen… Read more »

SEAL Team 6 Member Killed In Afghanistan During Rescue Of US Doctor

Pictured: US troops in Afghanistan

A member of Navy SEAL Team Six, the same group that infiltrated Osama bin Laden’s compound, was killed this weekend in Afghanistan during a rescue mission of an American doctor captured by the Taliban outside of Kabul five days ago. A US official confirmed the death of Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas Checque to Fox… Read more »

Afghanistan: Teen Girl Beheaded For Turning Down Marriage Proposal

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An Afghanistan teenage girl was reportedly beheaded by her own cousin after her family turned down his marriage proposal. Gisa is believed to be about 15 years old. According to reports by local police officers, she was decapitated with a knife in the Imam Sahib District of Kunduz on Tuesday. Massoud and Sadeq, both male,… Read more »

‘The Kite Runner’ Author, Khaled Hosseini Releases New Novel

'The Kite Runner' Author, Khaled Hosseini New Novel Released On May 21

author, Khaled Hosseini, will be releasing his third novel, And the Mountains Echoed, on May 21. The novel from the pen of The Kite Runner author will be published by Riverhead Books, which is part of their parent company, Penguin Group (USA), who also published Hosseini’s first two novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand… Read more »

Helmet Cam Video Shows Soldier Drawing Taliban Fire To Save His Squad

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The wildest, and perhaps most heroic helmet cam video ever, was recently posted on YouTube. A brave United States soldier is shown intentionally drawing Taliban gunfire away from his pinned down squad to save the lives of his military brothers. An unnamed soldier is shown actively engaging Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan during a machine gun… Read more »

Live Grenade Pulled Out Of Marines Leg [Video]

Marines Pull Grenade From Leg

When Marine Lance Corporal Winder Perez was attacked by the Taliban in January a live explosive became lodged in his leg and rather than stand by idly his medvac team jumped into action. Realizing that the explosive device could go off at any second the Marine’s four team members had to unanimously agree to allow… Read more »

US Sailor Marks 3,000th Afghanistan Death For NATO Coalition

Afghanistan Soldier is 3000th killed

Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan J. Wilson, 26, a U.S. sailor from Shasta, California died on May 20 in Manama Bahrian, making him the 3,000th international solider to die during fighting in Afghanistan. Information relating to the number of deaths associated with fighting in Afghanistan was revealed this week in a filing sent by email… Read more »

Sahar Gul’s Torturers Jailed For 10 Years

Afghan Child Bride Sahar Gul

A fifteen-year-old Afghan child bride, Sahar Gul, was burned, beaten, and had her fingernails pulled out by three members of her husband’s family. The torturers were sentenced to 10 years in jail. Abdul Wakil Omari, Afghanistan’s supreme court spokesman, told AFP: “The court sentenced her father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law each to 10 years in prison… Read more »