The Obama administration is preparing to transfer a military detainee in Afghanistan for criminal trial in Virginia, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Prisoner in Afghanistan to be tried in U.S.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Overnight French raid destroys IS arms center
France’s military chief says an overnight air raid has destroyed an arms depot for the Islamic State group in Iraq.
Saudi Arabia convicts 27 for plotting attack on U.S. forces
A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced 27 people to prison for planning a series of attacks against U.S.
After 1st Ebola case in NYC, 3 others quarantined
A doctor who became New York City’s first Ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing symptoms, and health officials stressed that the nation’s most populous city need not fear his wide-ranging travel in the days before his il
Army setting up comms for Ebola response in West Africa
The Army is working to coordinate crisis response in Liberia
Possible Ebola case in New York City
The first case of Ebola may have arrived in New York City.
U.S. official: Iraq army not ready to repel Islamic State
U.S. airstrikes and Iraqi ground forces have blunted an Islamic State offensive in Iraq, but it will be months before Iraq can mount a sustained counteroffensive to take terrain back, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday.
U.S. officials worry about ‘lone wolf’ attacks
After a pair of attacks in Canada this week that officials labeled as terrorism, counterparts in the USA are reacting with offers of cooperation – and a sense of apprehension.
U.S., South Korea delay transfer of wartime control
The U.S. and South Korea have delayed transferring wartime operational control of allied forces by taking on a ‘conditions-based approach’ and scrapping the previously set deadline of 2015.
Prisoner in Afghanistan to be tried in U.S.
The Obama administration is preparing to transfer a military detainee in Afghanistan for criminal trial near Washington, U.S. officials said Thursday.