Jun 11 Watch News Wrap: Floods Kill at Least 16 in Arkansas In other news Friday, flash floods in southwestern Arkansas killed at least 16 people today as a pair of rivers rose more than 8 feet and fresh ethnic bloodshed erupted in Kyrgyzstan, killing at least 45 people. Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch Author Junger Portrays Soldiers’ Reliance on Each Other in ‘War’ Jeffrey Brown talks with author and journalist Sebastian Junger about his latest book, "War," which tells the stories of an isolated platoon of soldiers on the front lines in Afghanistan. Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch News Wrap: Army Admits Mismanagement at Arlington Cemetery In other news Thursday, a report indicated that some of the nation's military dead may have been misidentified or misplaced at Arlington National Cemetery, and an American servicemember was killed in Afghanistan, marking the 20th U.S. death there this month. Continue watching
Jun 09 Watch News Wrap: More Bloodshed Seen in Afghanistan In other news Wednesday, dozens more people died in new attacks across southern Afghanistan, including four NATO troops shot down in a helicopter in Helmand province. In neighboring Pakistan, seven people were killed as militants attacked a NATO convoy outside… Continue watching
Jun 08 Watch NATO Bloodshed in Afghanistan Spikes Ahead of Planned Surge Violence raged in Afghanistan this week, just ahead of the launch of a major NATO offensive in the country's Taliban-held south. Ray Suarez talks to GlobalPost reporter Jean MacKenzie in Kabul for the latest. Continue watching
Jun 04 Afghan Conference Backs Plan for Peace Talks With Taliban By Larisa Epatko More than 1,500 tribal elders, business and religious leaders and other members of Afghan society — assembled in the capital for a three-day peace “jirga” or conference — on Friday endorsed President Hamid Karzai’s plan calling for negotiating with the… Continue reading
Jun 03 Watch News Wrap: Turkey Honors Activists Killed in Gaza In other news Thursday, there were services in Turkey for those killed in the Israeli sea raid off Gaza and delegates at a peace conference in Kabul agreed on the need to reach out to the Taliban to further the… Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch News Wrap: 12 Dead, 25 Wounded in England Shooting Rampage In other news Wednesday, a taxi driver in northwest England went on a shooting spree that killed 12 people. Also, Taliban militants carried out a suicide attack during President Hamid Karzai's address at a peace jirga in Afghanistan. Continue watching
Jun 01 Watch News Wrap: Al-Qaida’s Third in Command Reported Dead In other news Tuesday, al-Qaida has acknowledged that its No. 3 leader has been killed in the North Waziristan region along the Afghan-Pakistani border and Iraq's supreme court officially ratified the country's election results from last March. Continue watching
May 31 Weekly Poem: ‘The Returning Dead’ By Tom LeGro Wyatt Prunty, who served in the Navy during Vietnam, responds to the NewsHour's broadcast of photos of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue reading