On January 1, an American soldier, 1st class sergeant, born in Riga, 34-year-old Mikhail Golin, was killed while patrolling in Afghanistan. According to Voice of America, the sergeant was killed in the province of Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan. His patrol came under fire. Four soldiers were injured ...
Members of the Taliban terrorist organization attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital of Kabul. The attack killed at least 18 people, 10 people were injured, according to the BBC. On the evening of January 20, during dinner, militants broke into the hotel restaurant (according to ...
Trump believes that a hasty withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan will create a vacuum that terrorists will quickly fill. “My initial instinct was to withdraw troops from Afghanistan,” Voice of America quoted US President Donald Trump during his speech in Virginia. "After many...
In Michigan, hundreds of people took to the streets and gave the honor of seeing the Marines' service dog dying of bone cancer. 9-year-old Black Labrador Price served with the US Marines in Afghanistan and received the honors due to a hero on Wednesday before being put to sleep ...
The US military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in service with the US Army on the bases of the Islamic State terrorist organization in Afghanistan. According to a Pentagon spokesman, this was the first ever military use of a bomb known as GBU-43, writes NBC. It contains ...
Russian citizen Irek Khamidullin, a former tank officer who defected to the Taliban, has been sentenced to life in the United States, Reuters reports. This is the first trial against a foreign fighter who fought in Afghanistan in a US court. Thus, Khamidullin's verdict set a precedent. According to Reuters, ...
The US government has discovered massive embezzlement of Pentagon employees. The Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO), formed by the agency in 2006 and later sent to Afghanistan, squandered $ 150 million on living in luxury mansions. Unjustified waste was discovered by the Special General ...
Brad Pitt will star in the satirical comedy War Machine, based on Michael Hastings's The Wild and Horrific Story of the American War in Afghanistan. The film rights were acquired by Netflix. Directed by David Michaud (Animal Kingdom), he also wrote the script. ...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on the air of the American television channel CBS that the decision to withdraw all US troops and coalition forces from Afghanistan in two years could be revised. US President Barack Obama has promised to complete the withdrawal of American troops from Afghan territory ...