CHILLICOTHE, Mo. — A homecoming is planned for a Missouri Army National Guard unit that's been on deployment for duty in Afghanistan since the fall of 2006.
I am caged in this corner full of melancholy and sorrow ... my wings are closed and I cannot fly ... I am an Afghan woman and so must wail. - Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet, murdered by her husband in
CAMP SALERNO, Afghanistan (AP) — A 19-year-old medic from Texas will become the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second female soldier since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest medal for valor.
The first group of soldiers from a 3,200 strong US-Marine contingent has arrived in southern Kandahar province to help quell the ballooning insurgency. The Marines will be divided between tasks and locales, with some being devoted to advising the beleaguered
LASHKARGAH (PAN): Public Health Department officials Sunday accused Taliban insurgents of blocking a polio campaign in two districts of the lawless province of Helmand, but rebels rejected the allegation as baseless.
Security forces in Badghis said on Sunday a militant fighter, famous for his expertise in connecting rocket-launchers with remote-controlled devices, was arrested following an encounter.
The cost to the taxpayer of the two military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan has nearly doubled in a year to more than £3 billion, the Commons Defence Select Committee has disclosed.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian pledged late Tuesday to continue to challenge the official results of Armenia's disputed presidential election but made it clear that he will not hold unsanctioned ...
On March 8th, the NKR President Bako Sahakian accepted a group of russian-armenian businessmen arrived in Artsakh by the head of Ruben Vardanian and Levon Hayrapetian. The NKR ...
A senior U.S. official has condemned as "harsh and brutal" the Armenian government's post-election crackdown on the opposition and expressed serious concern about the continuing mass arrests of supporters ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel signaled she opposes granting North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership to former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia. "A country should become a NATO member not ...
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Thomas Hammarberg will be visiting Armenia March 12-15. Mr Hammarberg is scheduled to meet with RA President Robert Kocharian, NA Speaker Tigran Torosian, ...
Joining GUAM, Moldova expected economic benefits. Unification, as a counterbalance in political games, is unpromising, Moldova's President Vladimir Voronin told Kommersant daily. "Membership in any organization ...
John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC), rapporteur for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the Armenian elections, welcomed the lifting of two provisions of the state of emergency ...
For over eight years the Azerbaijani side has been attempting to bring its outposts closer to our positions, reducing the width of the neutral area. Experience shows that the ceasefire is often violated ...
