US general: Shoddy leaders contribute to rising Afghan military deaths
Basic leadership failures in many Afghan police and military units are helping drive casualty rates to ever-higher levels, the top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Sunday. Afghan forces are nearing the end of their second year providing security across their war-torn country, after NATO moved into an advisory and training role, and the toll on the local forces has been devastating. An estimated 5,000 were killed in 2015,...
US charges Afghanborn suspect with NY, NJ attacks
The United States Tuesday charged an Afghan-born American restaurant worker, who was critically wounded in a police shootout, with detonating and planting bombs in New York and New Jersey. U.S. prosecutors said Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, carried out twin bombings Saturday in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood and along the route of a U.S. Marine Corps run in the New Jersey town of Seaside Park. The 13-page indictment slapped him with...
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