Media ID: 55379989
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US soldiers from 5-20 infantry Regiment attached to 82nd Airborne fire M203 grenade launchers after coming under fire by the Taliban while on patrol in Zharay district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. (BAZ RATNER / REUTERS)
by Max Bearak | Jul 31, 2017 | World
Kabul — The United States’ longest war doesn’t look like it will end anytime soon. Sixteen years have passed. Nearly 2,400 US troops have died. More than $700 billion has been spent. But talk of “winning” is scarce. The goal now seems more akin to “not...
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A Qatar Airways Airbus A350 XWB aircraft. (Edgar Su/Reuters)
by Max Bearak | Jun 10, 2017 | Business
Washington – A bad year for Qatar Airways just got a whole lot worse. Amid the ongoing rupture in diplomatic relations between Qatar and its surrounding Arab nations, the small peninsular state’s national airline has been banned from flying to the four...
