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1:58 PM EST
2/9/2012 Al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan killed by U.S. drone strikeThe commander of al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan was killed Thursday when a U.S. drone struck his training camp in North Waziristan, according to Pakistani officials and the victim’s followers.

Source:AHN Topics:Unrest, Conflicts And War, War, International Military Intervention, Politics, Defense, Security Measures

8:48 AM EST
2/2/2012 Clinton finds nothing new in controversial leaked NATO reportThe United States' top diplomat on Wednesday tiptoed around a controversial NATO report on the Taliban, leaked portions of which accuse Islamabad of having links with the organization harboring Al Qaeda.

Source:AHN Topics:Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Unrest, Conflicts And War, War, International Military Intervention, Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Terrorism

12:54 PM EST
1/24/2012 Military dismisses manslaughter charges against Marine in Iraq civilian massacreA United States military court on Monday dismissed charges of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault against a Marine sergeant, who figured in the killing of 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, after the sergeant pleaded guilty to negligent dereliction of duty.

Source:AHN Topics:Unrest, Conflicts And War, War, International Military Intervention, Crime, Law And Justice, War Crime, Politics, Human Rights

11:39 AM EST
1/24/2012 Book Review: Three Millennia of WarsGary L. Rashba’s "Holy Wars, 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land" illuminates those major battles that shaped this part of the world for three millennia. It’s a colossal task, and it would have easy, and even excusable, for Rashba to have gotten bogged down in meaningless, but famous battles. Or to have told a good story, but leave the reader clueless about the significance of the bloodletting. With so many battles to choose from, it’s hard to narrow them down to a select group. But Rashba gets credit for choosing the 17 most crucial conflicts that any historian will tell you are a must for study.

Source:TML Topics:Arts, Culture And Entertainment, Literature, Opinion And Editorial, Unrest, Conflicts And War, War

8:25 PM EST
1/23/2012 U.S. mulls plans to send Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Qatar prisonsThe United States on Monday denied reports that Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, would be released on the streets according to the officials.

Source:AHN Topics:Unrest, Conflicts And War, War, International Military Intervention, Politics, Diplomacy, Peace Negotiations, Crime, Law And Justice, Crime, Terrorism

7:34 PM EST
1/20/2012 U.S. joins Germany to express sympathy with French deaths in AfghanistanThe top diplomat from the United States joined her visiting counterpart from Germany to express condolences to the families of four French soldiers -- members of the International Security Assistance Force -- killed in eastern Afghanistan's Kapisa province.

Source:AHN Topics:Unrest, Conflicts And War, War, International Military Intervention, Politics, Defense, Armed Forces, Diplomacy, International Relations

1:02 PM EST
1/20/2012 U.S. confirms no interruption in flow of American taxpayer dollars to PakistanThe United States confirmed on Friday there had been no interruption in the flow of billions of American taxpayer dollars to Pakistan’s coffers even after Islamabad stopped the flow of essential supplies into Afghanistan for U.S.-led international forces.

Source:AHN Topics:Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Defense, Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts And War, War, International Military Intervention

2:22 PM EST
1/19/2012 U.S. Army suicide rates fall, alcohol abuse remains highArmy suicide rates declined for the first time in four years in 2011, according to outgoing chief of staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli.

Source:AHN Topics:Unrest, Conflicts And War, War, Politics, Defense, Armed Forces, Health, Patient

1:22 PM EST
1/19/2012 Pentagon announces fresh deployment to AfghanistanThousands of troops based in Georgia and North Carolina are scheduled to head to Afghanistan for a rotation duty according to the Department of Defense.

Source:AHN Topics:Politics, Defense, Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts And War, War, International Military Intervention, Diplomacy, Alliances

7:52 AM EST
1/18/2012 U.S. rushes to endorse international code of conduct for outer spaceWithin days of crashing into the Pacific Ocean, a defunct Russian Mars probe weighing 13.5 tons elicited a strong statement from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday as the U.S. Department of Defense announced its support for an international code of conduct for outer space.

Source:AHN Topics:Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Science And Technology, Space Program, Environmental Issue, Waste