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Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping women, aid agency chief warns
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country’s women, the chief of a top aid agency warned ...
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For Trump’s national security adviser, Afghanistan still looms large
Michael Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, during a deployment as a Green Beret to ...
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Marine fights to maintain custody of adopted girl saved by Army Rangers from Afghan battlefield
An Afghan couple has argued the girl rescued by Army Rangers and adopted by a Marine is their relative and that she should be in their custody, instead.
Meet the Military Vets Arrested for Disrupting Pete Hegseth’s Senate Confirmation Hearing
The Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick to be defense secretary, was repeatedly disrupted ...
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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary pick, grilled at contentious Senate hearing
Hegseth, 44, served in the infantry and was deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. He was awarded two Bronze Stars ...
Hegseth, under Senate scrutiny, mutes critique of women in combat
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice for defense secretary, drew Democrats’ ire for past statements voicing strong opposition to female troops serving in combat units.