(Afghanistan) U.S. at odds with NATO over troops for Afghanistan news.yahoo 1/31/08By Kristin Roberts: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will press its European NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan's violent south in response to Canada's call for reinforcements, but the Pentagon said it will not commit any more of its own forces there. nato afghanistan

Afghan Journalism Student Sentenced to Death for Internet Print Out truemors 1/23/08An Afghan court has sentenced 23-year-old Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death after he printed out and distributed a paper from the internet, that a three judge panel ruled humiliated Islam. afghan death

Afghan force on track despite Taliban attacks: British commander news.yahoo 1/15/08LONDON (AFP) - Taliban suicide attacks are setbacks but will not prevent coalition forces from squeezing insurgents out, the British commander in Afghanistan told BBC radio on Tuesday. afghan attack

US Could Send More Marines To Afghanistan wbaltv 1/10/08WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is preparing to send at least 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan in April to bolster efforts to hold off another expected Taliban offensive in the spring, military officials said Wednesday. marines afghanistan

US Finishes Redeploying Georgian Troops from Iraq; US Troops in Georgia thetension.blogspot 8/14/08WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2008 -- The United States has redeployed some 2,000 Georgian troops from Iraq to their home country, where a contingent of fewer than 100 American military personnel remain, a Defense Department spokesman said today. georgian troops

Georgia Gets Its War On-McCain Gets His Brain Plaque... exiledonline 8/13/08By Mark Ames: The outbreak of war in Georgia on Friday offers a disturbing and somewhat surreal taste of what to expect from John McCain should he become our nation’s Commander in Chief. As the centuries-old ethnic animosities between Georgia and Ossetia boiled over into another armed conflict, drawing in neighboring Russia, McCain issued a stark-raving statement from Des Moines that is disturbingly reminiscent of the language used in the lead-up to NATO’s war against Yugoslavia in 1999, a war McCain zealously pushed for... georgia war

Split verdict on bin Laden aide journalgazette 8/7/08By Jerry Markon, Washington Post: GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – A military jury Wednesday found a former driver for Osama bin Laden guilty of supporting terrorism but not of conspiring in terrorist attacks, handing the Bush administration a partial victory in the first U.S. war crimes trial in half a century. The verdict, reached after about eight hours of deliberations over three days, only intensified the debate over whether Salim Ahmed Hamdan’s conviction was preordained in an unfair system – or whether military trials are appropriate for people accused of committing heinous acts against the United States. bin laden

4 female bombers strike in Iraq, killing 57 fe22.news.re3.yahoo 7/28/08 By SELCAN HACAOGLU, Associated Press Writer: BAGHDAD - Four suicide bombers believed to be women struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300 in one of this year's deadliest attacks, police said. suicide kill

Iraq War Hero Dies of Drug Overdose blueherald 7/22/08by Chicher: A US army medic who became a symbol of American heroism and integrity in the Iraq war has died of an apparent drugs overdose. The premature death of Joseph Dwyer at the age of 31 has highlighted the neglect many American veterans believe they face once they return home. iraq war

Coerced Evidence Excluded at Gitmo Trial a.abcnews 7/22/08By MIKE MELIA Associated Press Writer: The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence on Monday that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver, ruling he was subjected to "highly coercive" conditions in Afghanistan. trial gitmo

Troop withdrawal timetable concerns Pentagon chief fe18.news.sp1.yahoo 7/20/08WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's top military officer said Sunday a specific time frame for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq could jeopardize political and economic progress, leading to "dangerous consequences." troop withdrawal

Video Released Of Detainee's Guantanamo Interrogation rferl 7/15/08By Reuters: ORONTO -- Omar Khadr, the only Western prisoner still held in the U.S. prison on Guantanamo Bay, pleaded with Canadian interrogators to be allowed home in videos released by his lawyers. The videos of Khadr's interrogations by officials from Canada's CSIS foreign intelligence division, released after a long legal battle, show how Khadr, a teenager at the time, initially believed that the Canadians were there to help him. interrogation video

Congress authorizes war funds and sends bill to Bush reuters 7/14/08By Susan Cornwell: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led Congress authorized more Iraq war spending on Friday, sending President George W. Bush a defense bill requiring no change in strategy after failing again to impose a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawals. iraq war