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The video shows four men dressed in full U.S. Marine combat gear laughing and joking as they urinate on what appear to be dead men somewhere in a rural part of Afghanistan. [5] [6] News sources describe the dead men as Taliban insurgents. There is a wheelbarrow next to them and the scene appears as rural farming area. One of the bodies is ...
A U.S. Army soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division with a dead insurgent's hand on his shoulder. On April 18, 2012, the Los Angeles Times released photos of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of dead insurgents, [1] [2] after a soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division gave the photos to the Los Angeles Times to draw attention to "a breakdown in security, discipline and professionalism" [3 ...
On April 18, 2012 the Los Angeles Times released photos of U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division posing with body parts of dead insurgents, [1] [2] after a soldier in the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division [3] gave the photos to the LA Times to draw attention to "a breakdown in security, discipline and professionalism" [4] among U.S. troops operating in Afghanistan.
The film's executive producers include Pakistani women's education activist Malala Yousafzai, 27, who was violently targeted by the Taliban for speaking out in favor of women's education at age 15 ...
The US still has a force of nearly 10,000 soldiers in Afghanistan due to changing threats by the Taliban. The war in Afghanistan is 15 years old — here are 29 photos of one of the US's longest ...
On August 20, 1998, the US government issued a warning for non-Muslims to leave Afghanistan. [20] Meanwhile, Iran responded to the situation in neighboring Afghanistan by dispatching troops to its border. [11] In the weeks after the takeover the Taliban announced the execution of some soldiers who had been responsible for crimes. [21]
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
The former hospital on-base where lawyer Dennis Edney alleges abuse of Omar Khadr began [2]. The torture and homicides allegedly took place at the military detention center known as the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, which had been built by the Soviets as an aircraft machine shop during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1980–1989), which was a concrete-and-sheet metal facility that ...