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In Afghanistan, the number of kids in school has grown more than six times since the Taliban were in power. But millions of children still wait, and classrooms and qualified teachers are lacking.
Hempfield School District sixth-graders had welcomed some service people for a special Veterans Day program last month.So everyone thought it would be great "for the students to continue with that … and maybe do something nice for the troops," explained "room parent" Lori Sites.On Friday, the...
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif.—Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images. Smiling kids embracing a soldier. A dog sniffing blood flowing from a corpse. Movie star Cameron Diaz posing sideways in a midriff top. Troops cowering for safety during an ambush.
By Mark Schulman Times-News Staff Writer There are more than 650 care packages ready to be shipped to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the charitable organization Jessie’s Honor.
STEUBENVILLE - Joseph T. Drake, 18, of 422 Logan Ave. was sentenced to eight months in prison on Friday by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. after admitting to breaking into a downtown pharmacy.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—At times during President Barack Obama’s Dec. 1 speech on Afghanistan, my innate skepticism about the possibility of a military solution was challenged by his eloquent reminder that the dreadful events of 9/11 emanated from that part of the world. And certainly, as the president argues, Afghanistan and western Pakistan still harbor malicious, autocratic, and theologically ...
A rally against al-Qaeda and Taliban supporter Yousef al-Khattab, will be held in front of his house. PHOTO BY STEVE MALECKI A Woodside convert to Islam who openly sympathizes with al-Qaeda and the Taliban says he has left the country.
FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as U.S. investigators gather evidence that could lead to a conspiracy charge against them, an American official and another person familiar with the case said Friday.
NORFOLK A Navy lieutenant commander who claimed his service in Iraq led him to download child pornography was sentenced Friday to 40 months in prison. John J. Hall, 39, who had served in an elite riverine unit, blamed his actions in part on post-traumatic stress disorder, a claim that the judge took into account.
A Congressional subcommittee decision this week to defer approval of a 1,000-room hotel at Fort Lee has presented a setback in the Army’s bid to start construction this year and have the facility operational in 2012. But U.S. Army officials say they are carrying on with the design process of the $114 million, 15-story facility.
KABUL — The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday he will step down early next year after a rocky two-year tenure marked by a fraud-marred national election and a deadly Taliban attack on U.N. employees.
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The Muslim Public Affairs Council believes the answer to stopping extremism in the U.S. lies in the Muslim Amerian community.
Posted 10 minutes ago at 1:02 am. Upon first meeting her, Lisa Smith is gracious, humble and soft-spoken. She is kind and polite and careful with her words.
Event will be held at Biloxi National Cemetery
Dec. 11: Wendell Potter, former CIGNA Vice President, explains a loophole in the Senate health care reform bill, which bans insurance companies from putting lifetime limits on coverage but not annual limits. (Countdown)
