by Aishwarya Airy | Feb 26, 2020 | National Security
WASHINGTON– With a possible signing of the U.S.-Taliban peace deal in the works, the disputed results of the recent Afghan election could complicate the ability of government representatives to negotiate with the Taliban, experts on the long U.S. involvement in...
by Aishwarya Airy | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON | U.S. forces recovered the remains of two Airmen from the site where a U.S. aircraft crashed on Monday, according to U.S. Forces spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett in a statement issued on Tuesday. Leggett added that the remains, found near the crash site, were...
by Aishwarya Airy | Jan 25, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Testimony this week by the psychologist at the heart of the CIA program that tortured prisoners suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks on the United States has shaken the understanding that FBI agents were “the good guys” in the interrogation...
by Aishwarya Airy | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s plan to shift $7.2 billion from the Pentagon budget to pay for his planned wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is “playing politics with the nation’s defense,” the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Monday. “It is bad...
by Aishwarya Airy | Nov 25, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The prisoner swap between the Taliban and the Afghan government, which led to the release of two western hostages and 10 Afghan soldiers in exchange for three Taliban members, has built trust between the Taliban and the U.S. and Afghan governments,...
