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
May 31 Watch News Wrap: Americans Observe Memorial Day In other news Monday, President Obama paid his Memorial Day respects at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery outside Chicago, and American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan paused to remember fallen colleagues. Continue watching
May 28 Watch News Wrap: Mosque Attacks Kill 80 in Pakistan In other news Friday, gunman killed 80 people today in Lahore, Pakistan in attacks on mosques during Friday prayers and the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan reached 1,000 when a soldier was killed in a roadside bombing. Continue watching
May 24 Watch News Wrap: Afghanistan Tops Iraq in Total U.S. Troop Presence In other news Monday, the U.S. military announced that its forces serving in Afghanistan are now larger than those serving in Iraq. Also, a state of emergency was declared in parts of Jamaica following gun battles with a drug gang… Continue watching
May 21 Abdullah: ‘Corrective Steps’ Needed to Make Elections More Transparent By Larisa Epatko During a visit to Washington this week, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah spoke with Margaret Warner about U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, the security situation and upcoming jirga aimed at bringing former Taliban fighters back into the fold. Continue reading