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The announcement that the Pentagon plans to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, has led to intense criticism, with one Republican senator calling it "disgusting" and critics warning it could inspire more acts of terrorism.

People will be able to watch the execution of a former US Army major by firing squad after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed to livestream it.

In the spring of 2023, on a partly sunny day where the temperature flirted with 70 degrees, an Army veteran of the Afghanistan War walked into the unique Prairie-style police headquarters in Banning, California.

The Taliban are purchasing weapons and drones from Belarus. This was reported by the Afghan opposition TV channel Afghanistan International, citing five former high-ranking officials, including former Afghan security officials.

It was a journey 17-year-old River had done countless times. But one morning in 2014, what was meant to be a bus ride to school turned into a hellish nightmare when the vehicle was stopped by Taliban gunmen.

Osama bin Laden’s eldest son has secretly established a vast network of operatives across Asia and Africa after al-Qaeda staged his death.

The United States has removed Venezuela from its list of countries that have failed to demonstrably combat illegal drug trafficking for the first time in over 20 years, U.S. President Donald ‌Trump said in a statement on Wednesday, adding he may consider removing neighboring Colombia.

The information emerged in previously top secret files released by the CIA to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.

An Afghan permanent resident living in Texas has been deported after the Justice Department accused her of being an "alien terrorist," marking the first case of its kind, the department announced on Friday.

Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were repeatedly warned that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was planning to attack the US using hijacked passenger jets — but still failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks, according to a devastating cache of files released by the Trump administration Friday.

Newly declassified documents show the CIA repeatedly warned Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike at the United States, as early as three years before the 9/11 attacks.

Afghanistan’s central bank imposed a nationwide ban on cryptocurrencies this month, and the Taliban regime has arrested several dealers who defied orders to stop trading digital tokens, according to a senior police official.

For years, drone warfare meant a single U.S. Predator drone—resembling a missile-armed winged lawnmower—stalking a target across the sky to carry out a precision strike.

The deranged man busted with a gun at President Trump’s golf club allegedly amassed a chilling dossier detailing the First Lady’s daily schedule as well as hundreds of pages on secret service agents and sketches of the course.

Early in 2025, shortly after taking office, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled the nation’s top commanders on whether to eliminate a program aimed at protecting civilians during U.S. military operations.

Child marriage seems to have been legally recognized for the first time by the Taliban in Afghanistan, as activists claim that "shameful" new laws make it nearly impossible for girls and young women to seek divorce against their husbands’ wishes.

An active-duty U.S. Army soldier and Afghanistan war veteran shared with CBS News his ongoing concern about the possibility that his newly freed wife might be deported to a country where she has no connections, thereby jeopardizing his long-standing career in the American military.

In Afghanistan, a man is compelled to sell his 7-year-old twin daughters into sexual slavery due to severe poverty, hunger, and family debts. This was reported by BBC.

The implementation of the death penalty surged last year, with recorded executions reaching a global peak not witnessed since 1981, according to a new report. Most of this increase occurred in Iran, where the yearly execution rate doubled, as reported by the human rights organization Amnesty International.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement released the wife of an active-duty U.S. Army soldier and Afghanistan war veteran on Thursday, following a monthlong detention, according to her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Jose Serrano, as reported by CBS News.

On Friday, the United States renewed two rewards totaling $6 million in the case of an American who disappeared 12 years ago in Afghanistan.

A women’s rights activist and frequent guest on Afghan radio programs, M. was arrested in Kabul in 2025 on the pretext that her hijab was improperly worn. During her detention by the Taliban’s morality police, she was raped, and after her release, her jailers threatened to circulate images of the abuse she had suffered in detention to silence her.

The former US Navy SEAL who fatally shot Osama bin Laden has only one regret: the al Qaeda figure he killed with three shots to the head was buried at sea. “I would have hung him from a bridge in New York City,” and let the locals deal with him, Robert O’Neill told The Post.

A YouTuber who trespassed on the remote homeland of a spear-wielding tribe now faces up to five years in prison for the reckless stunt.