International Military Interventions

U.S. announces new sanctions against Syria

2013-05-16 14:03:00

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions against the Syrian government Thursday, blacklisting four senior officials, a private television station that it said had colluded with Syrian authorities and an airline it accused of...

Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next

2013-05-11 10:00:00

NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...

Karzai: U.S. wants use of 9 bases in Afghanistan after 2014

2013-05-09 08:06:00

KABUL, Afghanistan – The United States has requested the use of nine large military bases in Afghanistan after international forces complete their combat mission here at the end of next year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. In the...

Legendary Hollywood car customizer Dean Jeffries dead at 80

2013-05-08 14:24:00

Dean Jeffries, the legendary car painter and customizer who made the Monkeemobile and the Green Hornet's original Black Beauty, died in his sleep Saturday at his home in Hollywood. He was 80. His death was confirmed by his son, Kevin. During the car-...

U.S. seeks use of nine Afghanistan military bases after 2014

2013-05-09 15:55:00

KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States has requested the use of nine large military bases in Afghanistan after international forces complete their combat mission here at the end of next year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. In the...

U.S. turns over troubled dam project to Afghanistan

2013-05-04 17:10:00

KAJAKI, Afghanistan — After struggling for more than a decade to upgrade a huge hydroelectric plant in a volatile region that saw heavy American losses in fighting with the Taliban, the United States is trying a new approach: Let the Afghans take...

The struggle for Syria

2013-05-07 00:00:00

My cousin, Ramez, was dead before the echoes of the gunshot that killed him stopped ringing. His 4-year-old daughter, Zeynab, watched him fall on a narrow street in Damascus, but she never heard the shot because she is deaf. She held onto his lifeless...

Taliban announces spring offensive

2013-04-27 17:43:00

KABUL, Afghanistan — At a pivotal moment when U.S. forces are winding down combat operations in Afghanistan and handing over the lead security role to the Afghan government, Taliban insurgents announced Saturday the launch of their annual spring...

Global Voices: Pleas for Korean peace 60 years after fighting ended

2013-05-02 05:00:00

A conference to promote peace between communist and capitalist adversaries might sound like an antiquated notion in the post-Cold War era. But in this 60th anniversary year of the signing of the Korean War armistice, which suspended the fighting but...

Helicopter crew killed in Vietnam in '67 to be buried at Arlington

2013-04-30 16:28:00

The remains of a Navy helicopter pilot from Huntington Park who was shot down and killed in Vietnam nearly 46 years ago have been identified, the U.S. Defense Department announced Tuesday. Lt. Dennis W. Peterson will be buried Thursday in Arlington...

McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid 'red line'

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Barack Obama really, really does not want to get tangled up in Syria. For almost a year, Obama's secretaries of State — first Hillary Rodham Clinton, now John Kerry — have pressed the president for more aid to the insurgents who are fighting...

Step toward possible military intervention in Syria

2013-04-17 18:16:00

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more that could be deployed if the Obama administration decides to intervene in Syria to secure chemical weapons arsenals...

30-year-old Iraq War veteran Adam Peters was stationed near a mortuary in Baghdad and watched scores of bodies trucked in. Now living with his mother in Boca Raton, he has anxiety, stress, depression and insomnia.

2013-04-25 01:49:00

A group of Vietnam veterans and family members of veterans hold American flags in front of the William A. O'Neill Armory at the 50th commemoration of the Vietnam War Saturday afternoon.

2013-03-30 00:00:00

New Britain - 03/30/13 - Lao American New Generation Inc. of Connecticut members look on as US Special Forces Guerrilla Unit comprised of Lao and Hmong veterans enter VFW Post 511 in New Britain. BRAD HORRIGAN | bhorrigan@courant.com

2013-03-30 00:00:00