US Wars

The US debacle in Afghanistan has brought to light other issues plaguing them: corruption and other stories about the existence of a shadow government that pulls the strings of power and gets richer. Billions of dollars from the public treasury are spent in private hands, in the military-industrial complex and …

The embassy said the celebrations had been made “more sober” and the reception scheduled for Friday at the ambassador’s residence to mark the 240th anniversary of the Battle of the Caps was called off. A reception on a frigate in Baltimore was also cut back, a senior French official told …

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will be the keynote speaker on Wednesday at the first-ever joint repatriation ceremony at Pearl Harbor-Hickam Joint Base for servicemen who fell in the Korean War, the accounting agency said. POW / MIA. The agency, which investigates, searches for and recovers missing U.S. war dead …

The United States emerged from its victory in World War II as the world’s preeminent superpower. Its annual military budget, around three-quarters of a trillion dollars a year, exceeds all of the next ten countries of the world. Yet despite the apparent global military supremacy of the United States, out …

The United States is expected to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Saturday with commemorations at the three attack sites – New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The milestone anniversary comes just weeks after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan …

LONDON (AP) – UK supermarket chain Morrisons plans to end a bidding war for the company by holding an auction between two US-based investment groups that have made competing bids. Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has offered Morrisons about £ 7 billion ($ 9.6 billion), exceeding the £ …

In the context of the war between the United States and the Taliban, it can be said: no battle so easily won and no battle so easily lost in history. When the United States began operations against the Taliban in 2001, its senior leaders simply fled Afghanistan and sought refuge …

Keith and Lynn Chapman during their StoryCorps taping in Frederick, Maryland on August 20. HistoryBody hide caption toggle legend HistoryBody The last conversation Keith Chapman had with his younger brother Nathan Chapman was Christmas Day 2001. Nathan had called his family from Afghanistan. Although the 31-year-old, Sergeant First Class of …

MANILA (Reuters) – Filipino activists and families of victims of a war on drugs that has claimed thousands of lives see with dismay the possibility of President Rodrigo Duterte remaining vice president for six more years after the end of his term next year. The constitution bars a reelection bid …

“We are just devastated,” said Raymond Clark. Clark is the father of Lt. Col. Todd J. Clark, killed in an insider attack by an Afghan National Army soldier on June 8, 2013, in which two other people were also killed and three injured. Elder Clark is one of three Gold …