Beatty: Prospects grim for Afghan win
In June, news outlets noted President’s Trump’s about-face decision to send 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan, augmenting the 8,500 already there. So why did Trump, and President Obama before him,...
View ArticleBrookes: In Afghan terror fight, U.S. must play long game
From the outside looking in, one might think that Team Trump’s Afghanistan policy is stuck in “neutral” due to promises of an interagency review and follow-on strategy by mid-July. Fair enough, but...
View ArticleKounalakis: Kelly eyes ‘forgotten’ Afghan war
Americans may have lost sight of the Afghan war, but Donald Trump’s new chief of staff, Gen. John F. Kelly, has not. He sacrificed his son to that war. He knows that what happens in Afghanistan does...
View ArticlePresident Donald Trump to make prime-time address on Afghanistan tonight
President Trump plans to outline a new strategy for the U.S. in Afghanistan tonight, offering what experts say could be a key moment for the White House as it weighs its next move 16 years into the...
View ArticleDonald Trump sends message: U.S ‘will fight to win’
President Trump declared terrorists “have nowhere to hide” during a major policy speech last night on Afghanistan — calling out Pakistan for providing safe haven, expanding the authority of the armed...
View ArticleBattenfeld: Address a step in right direction
President Trump set out last night to heal his self-inflicted political wounds of the last few weeks, and show some badly needed leadership. It was clear right off the bat that Trump’s prime-time...
View ArticleEditorial: Trump’s Afghan reset
It doesn’t take a cynic to see in last night’s presidential address on Afghanistan an effort by Donald Trump to put a disastrous week behind him and try to convince the nation and the world that he is...
View ArticleBrookes: New Afghan strategy hits the mark
After nearly 17 years of war in Afghanistan, President Trump this week proposed a pragmatic, purposeful approach to the conflict that will work to protect and advance U.S. interests in that part of the...
View ArticleClay: Diplomacy aided by diversity
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently made a remarkably, bold statement in public — and, no, it didn’t involve Barcelona or North Korea or Afghanistan. This announcement was about recruitment and...
View ArticlePatriotic salute, road rally cheered by gamegoers
FOXBORO — A convoy of flag-toting motorcyclists and drivers zipped past Gillette Stadium yesterday on Route 1 and were greeted by cheers from Pats nation, as team members inside the stadium stood for...
View ArticleCaruso: Troops at risk if Iran deal fails
In 2014, during my second deployment to Afghanistan, I stood and watched the sun set over Iran. Tensions were high over Iran’s nuclear program, and I knew that if a solution could not be reached, the...
View ArticleN.J. man guilty in bomb case, faces life in prison
NEW YORK — A New Jersey man was convicted yesterday of planting two pressure-cooker bombs on New York City streets, including one that injured 30 people with a rain of shrapnel when it detonated in a...
View Article‘Rotten traitor’ pleads guilty
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured and held by the Taliban for five years after walking away from his post in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty yesterday to desertion and...
View ArticleJudge rules that Bowe Bergdahl should serve no prison time
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and triggered a search that left some of his comrades severely wounded, was spared a prison sentence by a...
View ArticleChris Hemsworth plays Special Forces leader in ‘12 Strong’
WEST HOLLYWOOD — Chris Hemsworth knows plenty about superheroes, and with Friday’s “12 Strong,” he learned about real ones as well. Spotlighting a Special Forces unit that went to Afghanistan soon...
View ArticleTrevante Rhodes reveals warrior’s mentality in ‘12 Strong’
LOS ANGELES — As one of the “12 Strong,” the dozen Special Forces soldiers sent into Afghanistan soon after 9/11, Trevante Rhodes can add another ensemble film that’s raising his profile. The...
View ArticleTaliban militants besiege Afghan hotel
KABUL, Afghanistan — Security forces said yesterday they had killed the last of six Taliban militants to end an overnight siege at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel that left at least 18 people dead,...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills scores in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber drove an ambulance into a commercial area by pretending to be carrying a patient to a hospital and then detonated his explosives at a checkpoint near the European...
View ArticleTrump should acknowledge sacrifice of NATO soldiers
Surrounded as he is by U.S. Army and Marine Corps generals, you would think President Trump would show some sympathy for NATO soldiers killed in action last week in Afghanistan. But, no, the president...
View ArticleSpecial Forces soldier from Boston killed in Afghanistan
U.S. Army Special Forces Sgt. 1st. Class Eric Emond was a pivotal part of the team of combat vets who created the Seaport memorial to the state’s Iraq and Afghanistan war dead. His name will be the...
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