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Afghanistan's President Blasts US Troops for Gruesome Afghan Deaths

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's president says U.S. soldiers charged with murder in the deaths last year of three unarmed Afghans had killed them for entertainment, after taking drugs. Hamid Karzai condemned the actions of five soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade. The troops have been charged in the United States...

US Likely to Keep Combat Role After Libya Shift

WASHINGTON -- The United States welcomed a partial handover for the Libyan air campaign to NATO on Thursday, but the allies apparently balked at assuming full control and the U.S. military was left in charge of the brunt of combat. NATO agreed to take over command of the newly established no-fly zone over Libya,...

US May Hand Over No-Fly Lead This Weekend

The United States may hand over operational control of the no-fly zone in Libya to a coalition-led command-and-control structure sometime during the next several days, according to a senior U.S. military official. The U.S. military may turn over control of military operations over Libya "as early as this weekend," Vice...

US Military Plane Crashes in Libya; Fighting Rages in Cities

BU MARIEM, Libya -- An American fighter jet crashed in Libya's rebel held east, both crew ejecting safely as the aircraft spun from the sky during the third night of the U.S. and European air campaign. Moammar Gadhafi's forces shelled rebels regrouping in the dunes outside a key eastern city on Tuesday, and his snipers and...

Suspect in Killing of US Airmen in Germany Says He Acted Alone

FRANKFURT, Germany -- The suspect in the slaying of two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport confessed to targeting members of the American military, a top security official said Thursday, in a case that German officials are treating as a possible act of Islamic terrorism. German federal prosecutors took over the...

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