Tag Archives: Afghanistan

July 3, 2008 – The nation’s top military officer said yesterday that more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to tamp down an increasingly violent insurgency, but that the Pentagon does not have sufficient forces to send because they are … Continue reading →

July 2, 2008, Kabul, Afghanistan – A helicopter from the U.S.-led forces was shot down south of the Afghan capital Wednesday, but the crew escaped without serious injury, the coalition said. In the south, a suicide car bomber targeted a … Continue reading →

July 1, 2008 – June was the second month in a row during which the U.S. and allied troop deaths in the Afghan war were more numerous than those in Iraq, CNN reported. Last moth, at least 46 foreign troops … Continue reading →

June 26, 2008 – The Taliban took the school-books away. It also took the flour and cooking oil. It warned the farmers of Kajaki Olya, a village on the banks of the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan, not to accept … Continue reading →

June 19, 2008 – There’s a lot we know about Afghanistan and a lot more we don’t. An expert who knows much more than most of us – whose prescient insights I have benefited from for a decade and whom … Continue reading →

June 20, 2008 – The U.S. Army logs more suicides and suicide attempts than ever before, as troops face increased demands for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and longer deployments. Suicides among active U.S. Army soldiers increased for the second … Continue reading →

June 16, 2008 – As an internist at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Stephanie Santos is used to finding odd things in people’s stomachs. So last spring when a young man, identifying himself as an Iraq-bound soldier, said he … Continue reading →

May 25, 2008 – Timothy Bowman, 23, had been back from Illinois National Guard duty in Iraq for eight months when he drove to his father’s electrical contracting business on Thanksgiving Day 2005, got a gun and shot himself in … Continue reading →