37284 Stories, most recent news story added 8 minutes ago
The first reinforcements of President Barack Obama's Afghanistan "surge" will give U.S. Marines the forces needed to tackle the last major Taliban stronghold on their patch, a commander said on Tuesday.
Trying to discern in Obama's address at Oslo the contours of a coherent foreign policy is likely to prove futile. For the elucidation of a strategic design was not the purpose. The aim was political.
The 67th annual Golden Globe nominations for best actress in a musical or comedy have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday the United States had no choice but to substantially increase its presence in Afghanistan because America would be "in real trouble" if the Karzai government fails. But Biden also acknowledged in a nationally broadcast interview that much of the terrorist threat originates in neighboring Pakistan, and said the Obama administration is ...
The first units in the planned troop surge soon will leave for Afghanistan from a North Carolina Marine base.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- In a speech this month in New York, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned: "Home-based terrorism is here. And like violent extremism abroad, it is now part of the threat picture that we must confront."
An ex-Marine with post-traumatic stress disorder is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to threatening supervisors who fired him and choking a co-worker who was also his live-in girlfriend.
Islamabad - At least 27 people were killed 90 injured Tuesday when a car bomb exploded near the residence of a minister in Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab, officials said. The blast in Dera Ghazi Khan town destroyed the house of Dost Mohammad K...
John S. Gonsalves, president of Homes for Our Troops, said hundreds of volunteers from as far away as New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire, as well as a bevy of local contractors, took part in the “build brigade” for Staff Sgt. Michael Downing’s Marion Road home.
A suicide car bomber struck Tuesday near the home of a former Afghan vice president and a hotel favored by Westerners, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens in one of the safest neighborhoods in Kabul.
Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Today is Tuesday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2009. There are 16 days left in the year.
Christmas trees often travel short or long distances to their final Christmas destinations. The tree that members of St. Mary's community in Colts Neck sent to a parishioner traveled more than 6,700 miles to Afghanistan. The St. Mary's parishioner was Jeff Cantor of Marlboro, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve Unit 353 out of Staten Island, N.Y.
I've had it. We are still at war in Iraq. Afghanistan has evolved into a major new war. Thousands of additional U.S. troops will be in harm's way. We face the possibility of increased terrorist strikes against our homeland and our interests overseas.
MARLBORO — A new table of organization for the Marlboro Police Department will remove the deputy chief position and add part-time special officers. An ordinance amending the police department's table of organization was adopted by the Township Council in 4-0 vote during its Dec. 10 meeting.
First came the chatter on the radio: Keep an eye on a suspicious Toyota parked on the opposite side of the road.
Tribe Contributes Millions of Dollars to the Community Since Opening Red Hawk Casino
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowReuters
Open slideshowAFP/PRESIDENTIAL PALACE
