ISLAMABAD—The new commander of the U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan has apologized to residents of Kunduz for a U.S. airstrike on a hospital that killed 42 people. U.S. Army General John Nicholson met in Kunduz with representatives of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders and family members of the victims to express his condolences over what […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Karen Mansfield, who as assistant adjutant general for Air also serves as commander of the Alaska Air National Guard, was promoted from colonel to brigadier general at a ceremony in the Arctic Warrior Events Center on March 6, 2016. She became the third female member of the Alaska Air National […]
WASHINGTON – The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued its report concluding a review of the agency’s actions and decision to conduct an assessment of Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. While the OIG found neither evidence of bias nor a pre-determined outcome on the EPA’s part, it noted […]
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 […]