Tag: Sara A. Carter

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2010 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un attends a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea's news agency reported Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 that Kim Jong Il had died on Saturday, Dec. 17 after having a heart attack on a train. On Monday the news agency dubbed Kim Jong Un a

U.S. nervous over North Korea’s nukes after Kim Jong Il’s death

Sara Carter · December 19, 2011 5:00 am

Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamaat-i-Islami rally to condemn NATO airstrikes on Pakistani troops, on Friday, Dec 2, 2011 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Confusion and a communication breakdown prevented Pakistan's airforce from scrambling to defend troops on the ground during the deadly NATO bombing last weekend of two border outposts, the military said Friday, responding to rare domestic criticism of the powerful institution. A placrad in center reads

Pakistan says U.S. knowingly attacked its soldiers

Sara Carter · December 15, 2011 5:00 am

This is an image made from video that was taken by the BBC2 current affairs program Newsnight five years ago, that Newsnight claims to be of Mullah Mohammed Omar, center, the leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement. The footage, that lay undiscovered in the BBC's vaults until the Newsnight program shown, late Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2001, was taken as Omar rallied his troops in the Afghan city of Kandahar. (AP Photo/BBC TV - Newsnight)

Hunt for Taliban’s Mullah Omar takes on urgency

Sara Carter · December 12, 2011 5:00 am

A damaged car is seen at the scene of an explosion in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. A bomb exploded and injured 6 Afghans, police officials said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Sectarian violence threatens to further destabilize Afghanistan

Sara Carter · December 6, 2011 5:00 am

The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, delivers his speech at the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, Germany Monday Dec. 5, 2011. A decade after the first Afghanistan conference the international community discusses the future of its engagement in Afghanistan.

U.S. commits to another dozen years of financial aid to Afghanistan at Bonn

Sara Carter · December 5, 2011 5:00 am

Pakistani protesters wave a Pakistani flag during a protest against NATO strikes on Pakistani soldiers, in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Pakistan said Tuesday it will boycott an upcoming meeting in Germany on the future of Afghanistan to protest the deadly attack by U.S.-led forces on its troops, widening the fallout from an incident that has sent ties between Washington and Islamabad into a tailspin.

Anti-terror operations in Pakistan threatened, experts say

Sara Carter · November 29, 2011 5:00 am

A Pakistani driver covers a NATO vehicle parked at Pakistani border Chaman which was closed for NATO supply trucks on Monday, Nov 28, 2011. The border closure is in response to NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

Pakistan fired on U.S. troops ahead of airstrike, officials say

Sara Carter · November 28, 2011 5:00 am

In this picture taken on August 19, 2010 shows Pakistan's Ambassador in Washington Hussain Haqqani, right, talks with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari in Multan, Pakistan. Pakistan's envoy to the United States says he has resigned over claims he wrote a memo to Washington asking for its help in reining in the country's powerful military.

Pakistan’s U.S. ambassador resigns in wake of memo scandal

Sara Carter · November 22, 2011 5:00 am

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, gestures during a meeting with victims of violence in Mexico City, Thursday June 23, 2011. Calderon says he doesn't regret his strategy to fight organized crime, despite calls to end a confrontation that has killed at least 35,000 during his administration. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexican drug war rages as U.S. focuses on Afghanistan

Sara Carter · November 21, 2011 5:00 am

Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husein Haqqani

Pakistan envoy’s memo called fake by U.S.

Sara Carter · November 19, 2011 5:00 am

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Syrian leader loses ground as clashes escalate

Sara Carter · November 15, 2011 5:00 am

In this June 10, 2006 file photo, the late U.S. Rep Jack Murtha, D-Pa., left, and then-Col. Peter Fuller at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.(AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)

General’s firing can’t conceal troublesome truths

Sara Carter · November 14, 2011 5:00 am