Topic: Afghanistan
War may kill thousands of civilians a year in Afghanistan, but choking air pollution in the capital Kabul is more deadly, experts say.Signs of the silent killer -- pollutants emitted by old cars, poor quality fuel and people burning trash -- are ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday decades of war and burgeoning consumerism had inflicted major environmental damage on his battered country.Karzai told a sustainability conference in New Delhi that the effects of war, pollution and climate change had taken their toll on ...
The Air Force is looking for places in the American West where pilots can practice flying special operations missions over terrain similar to the rugged mountains of Afghanistan. One proposal would call for a new Low Altitude Tactical Navigation area straddling the ...
Forget the slurs of F-15 and F-16 pilots that the A-10 suffers bird strikes from behind. The A-10 shown here was taking on some old-fashioned petroleum-based fuel from a KC-10 last fall over Afghanistan. The U.S. Navy has been testing biofuels in ...
Quotes from the AP's interview with KerryQuotes from The Associated Press interview with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., on Wednesday, a few hours after he returned from Afghanistan, where he helped persuade President Hamid Karzai to accept a runoff ...
Obama signs bill funding Iraq, Afghanistan wars, swine flu fight, fuel-efficient auto pushPresident Barack Obama has signed into law a measure keeping the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from running out of money.The $106 billion spending bill also includes money to fight ...
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Reservists return to Patrick Air Force Base after serving time ...2012-02-07
