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August 28, 2021

 

‘He was just a kid’: Families, communities begin paying tribute to troops killed in Kabul As military personnel were going through the grim task of notifying the troops’ next of kin, some of their names emerged Friday before the government formally announced them. READ MORE

Navy, Coast Guard send ships through Taiwan Strait in wake of assault drills by China The transit by the USS Kidd marks the eighth time this year the Navy has sent a warship through those waters. READ MORE

Marine commander who demanded ‘accountability’ for Afghanistan failures is relieved of his duties  Lt. Col. Stu Scheller, who filmed a viral video calling out senior military and civilian leaders for failures in Afghanistan, was relieved of command Friday, the Marine Corps confirmed. READ MORE   US drone strike kills two ISIS terrorists, wounds a third less than two days after Kabul airport attack The drone strike in the Nangarhar province hit “high-profile ISIS targets” that worked as “planners and facilitators” for the terrorist group’s Afghanistan branch known as ISIS-Khorasan, or ISIS-K, Army Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor said. READ MORE   Navy veteran blinded by Afghanistan blast wins gold medal in Paralympic triathlon Visually impaired triathletes ran, swam and tandem biked with the aid of sighted teammates. Snyder’s guide was Greg Billington, an Olympic triathlete in Rio who once ran cross country for Lakenheath High School on a U.S. Air Force base in England. READ MORE

Biden: Another attack likely, pledges more strikes on ISIS-K President Joe Biden vowed Saturday to keep up airstrikes against the Islamic extremist group whose suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed scores of Afghans and 13 American service members. Another terror attack, he said, is "highly likely" this weekend as the U.S. winds down its evacuation. READ MORE   US drone strike targets Islamic State in Afghanistan following Kabul airport bombing The strike appears to be retaliation for a bombing at the Kabul international airport that killed 13 U.S. troops and a reported 170 Afghans a little more than 24 hours earlier. READ MORE   US bases to house up to 50,000 Afghans The U.S. military is destroying equipment at the Kabul airport and more than doubling its temporary housing capacity on bases in the United States to extract as many people from Afghanistan as possible before Tuesday's withdrawal deadline. READ MORE   ‘I want him home’: Two Maine moms with Marine sons in Afghanistan filled with pride, worry Aaron Penney, 21, and Freddy Owens, 20, grew up together as lifelong friends, their mothers say, and both talked from a young age about being Marines. Becky Owens heard immediately from her son that he was OK after the attack. After two days of waiting and worrying, Jennifer Penney received good news in a text from her son Saturday morning. READ MORE   Mask debate moves from school boards to courtrooms In at least 14 states, lawsuits have been filed either for or against masks in schools. In some cases, normally rule-enforcing school administrators are finding themselves fighting state leaders. READ MORE   A Hurricane Ida wild card: Effects on U.S. energy supply Companies evacuated oil and gas platforms south of Louisiana ahead of Hurricane Ida but a far greater worry was potential damage to refineries and petrochemical plants in its projected path from flooding and storm surge. READ MORE

 

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