Author: Nancy A. Youssef
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Pensacola shooting suspect identified as Saudi training at air base
A Saudi Air Force aviation student opened fire in a classroom at a Florida Navy base Friday, killing at least three people and injuring eight in what some lawmakers were calling terrorism. Mohammed Alshamrani, whose identity was confirmed by people familiar with the investigation, used a handgun and was killed by sheriff deputies during the…
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Inside the mission that killed Islamic State leader Baghdadi
WASHINGTON • The chopping of blades from eight U.S. military helicopters roused startled residents in northwestern Syria around midnight Saturday, an unusual sound for an area close to the relative quiet of the Turkish border. Exchanges of gunfire followed for the next several hours until a war plane delivered the final airstrikes, witnesses said. Then,…
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Army training is suffering, general’s memo warns
WASHINGTON – The Army’s ability to train its forces is “increasingly at risk” because of the nation’s protracted commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan, the general in charge of training has told the Army’s chief of staff. In a Feb. 16 memo to Gen. George W. Casey, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the commander of the U.S. Army…
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Afghans blame U.S.-led coalition for police chief’s killing
KABUL, Afghanistan – The Afghan government today blamed U.S.-led coalition forces for the killing of Kandahar’s police chief and criminal investigations director on coalition forces, saying the Afghan guards who shot them to death were working for and trained by the coalition. U.S. officials in Washington, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because…