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Official: Navy SEAL died of apparent suicide

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 23rd

By KIMBERLY DOZIERAP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. military officials are investigating the apparent suicide of a Navy SEAL commander in Afghanistan. Navy SEAL Cdr. Job W. Price, 42, of Pottstown, Pa., died Saturday of a non-combat-related injury while supporting stability operations

Official: Navy SEAL died of apparent suicide

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 23rd

By KIMBERLY DOZIER and PAULINE JELINEKAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. military officials are investigating the apparent suicide of a Navy SEAL commander in Afghanistan. Cmdr. Job W. Price, 42, of Pottstown, Pa., died Saturday of a gunshot wound to the head while supporting stability

Bombing at political rally kills 9 in Pakistan

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

By RIAZ KHANAssociated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed nine people including a provincial government official at a political rally held Saturday by a party that has opposed the Taliban, officials said. The rally in Peshawar, the capital of northwestern Khyber

UN chief: Polio killings in Pakistan 'cruel'

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 19th

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling the killing of health workers trying to vaccinate Pakistani children against polio in a U.N.-backed campaign "cruel, senseless and inexcusable." Gunmen killed a woman working on vaccination efforts and her driver Wednesday, raising

US returns Guantanamo prisoner's remains to Yemen

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 15th

MIAMI (AP) - U.S. authorities say the remains of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who died in September have been returned to his native Yemen. A spokesman for the military's Miami-based Southern Command said Saturday that the medical examiner ruled Adnan Latif's Sept. 8 death a suicide. Col. Greg

US commanders are upbeat on Afghan war progress

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 15th

By By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security Writer KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. commanders are offering glowing reviews of their 2012 war campaign, upbeat assessments that could be interpreted as leeway for President Barack Obama to order another round of troop withdrawals next summer. Obama faces

US commanders are upbeat on Afghan war progress

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 15th

Appeals court upholds Afghan's detention in Gitmo

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 14th

By By FREDERIC J. FROMMERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court has upheld a lower judge's decision not to release a former high-ranking Taliban government official from Guantanamo Bay. Friday's decision was the latest blow to efforts to win release for Khairullah Khairkhwa

Guantanamo says goodbye to last Cuban 'commuters'

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 14th

By By SUZETTE LABOY and BEN FOXAssociated Press GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - One of the world's most unusual commutes is coming to an end. For more than a half century, Luis La Rosa and Harry Henry have left their homes before dawn each workday in the communist-run city of

Panetta in Afghanistan to meet with Karzai

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 12th

By By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security Writer KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Barack Obama will decide shortly how many U.S. troops he wants to keep in Afghanistan after the U.S.-led coalition military mission ends in December 2014, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday as he opened