A top U.S. military commander says American forces were to blame for mistakenly hitting a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan in an aerial bombardment Saturday that killed 22 people. U.S. Army General John Campbell told a congressional committee in Washington that Afghan forces requested the airstrike on the hospital operated by the international medical charity Doctors […]
The U.S. Coast Guard says it has found the remains of one crew member in its search for a cargo ship that sank off the coast of the Bahamas last week. Coast Guard spokesman Mark Fedor says the body was recovered in a survival suit found floating amid debris from the El Faro, which disappeared […]
It was announced on Friday by U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler and Ryan Noel, the USFWS Special Agent in Charge, that their investigation into the Walrus deaths discovered in mid-September in the Cape Lisbourne area has discovered that some of the walrus deaths were definitely human-caused. They also report that they believe they have identified […]
CAIRO—A stampede on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia left at least 717 people dead and more than 800 injured, in the deadliest tragedy to strike the annual Hajj pilgrimage in a quarter-century. Saudi officials say the incident occurred Thursday in Mina where pilgrims throw rocks at pillars representing the […]