TRIPOLI/NAWFALIYA, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan forces converged on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte on Monday, hoping to seal their revolution by seizing the last bastions of a fallen but perhaps still dangerous strongman. Gaddafi’s whereabouts have been unknown since Tripoli fell to his foes and his 42-year-old rule collapsed a week ago. Residents in the ...
TRIPOLI/NAWFALIYA, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan forces converged on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte on Monday, hoping to seal their revolution by seizing the last bastions of a fallen but perhaps still dangerous strongman. Gaddafi’s whereabouts have been unknown since Tripoli fell to his foes and his 42-year-old rule collapsed a week ago. Residents in the ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – NATO warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte on Sunday as forces opposed to the fallen strongman closed in on his last major bastion of support. The fugitive Gaddafi’s exact whereabouts where still not known and it was possible he was still in hiding in Tripoli five days after it fell to ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi was a hunted man on Monday as loyal remnants of his forces made a last-ditch stand in the capital and world leaders embraced the fractious Libyan rebels as new masters of the oil-rich North African state. Nearly 48 hours after a pincer thrust on Tripoli by the irregular rebel armies, ...
DISKO ISLAND, Greenland – The old hunter was troubled by the foreigners encroaching on his Inuit people’s frozen lands. “The Inuit say that they are going to heat the `siku’ (the sea ice) to make it melt. There will be almost no more winter,” the elder says of the southerners in Jean Malaurie’s “Last Kings ...
SILVANA, Wash. – In a hilltop graveyard overlooking this Stillaguamish River village lies a young soldier killed in the infancy of the Iraq war. Army Spc. Justin W. Hebert’s story is sad and sadly unremarkable, a tragedy bound up in the tale of a grinding war that took young lives with grievous regularity. Nearly one-third ...
KABUL (Reuters) – A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. soldiers and seven Afghans, the Afghan president said on Saturday, the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war. A brief statement from the presidential palace said the troop-carrying Chinook helicopter had crashed in ...
KABUL (Reuters) – A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. soldiers and seven Afghans, the Afghan president said on Saturday, the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war. A brief statement from the presidential palace said the troop-carrying Chinook helicopter had crashed in ...
KABUL (Reuters) – A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. soldiers and 7 Afghans, the Afghan president said on Saturday, a devastating toll and easily the worst single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war. A brief statement from the presidential palace said the troop-carrying ...
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – If the weather cooperates, Atlantis will close out the space shuttle era with wheels down in Florida. Shuttle homecomings didn’t always end this way. For much of the first decade of the program, Edwards Air Force Base was the go-to landing site, 3,000 miles away in California, until shuttles ...