Image of US soldier in Afghanistan wins major photo award
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British photographer Tim Hetherington has won the prestigious World Press Photo Award for 2007 with a picture of an exhausted US soldier inside a bunker in Afghanistan, organisers said Friday.
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The U.S. military asserted that an American soldier was justified in erasing journalists' footage of the aftermath of a suicide bombing and shooting in Afghanistan last week, saying publication could have compromised a military investigation and led to false public conclusions.
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WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush has awarded the Medal of Freedom to three men central to his Iraq policy, saying they played &quot;pivotal roles in great events.
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An American soldier is killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan, the US military says.
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DUBAI -- A website posted a photograph of what it claimed was a US soldier kidnapped in Iraq, but doubts were quickly raised about its authenticity after a US toy manufacturer said yesterday that it appeared to show a model soldier made by the company.
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An American soldier has been critically injured in an insurgent attack on his vehicle in Afghanistan that also wounded two other US soldiers.
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The U.S. military said Wednesday it is looking into the unauthorized release of a photo purportedly taken by an American drone aircraft showing scores of Taliban militants at a funeral in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush on Tuesday presented the government&#39;s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, to three men closely involved in the planning, execution and immediate aftermath of the Iraq war - and in some of the war&#39;s biggest
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The first Medal of Honor awarded for combat in Afghanistan will be&#13;&#10;presented to the family of a Navy SEAL who&#13;&#10;gave his life to make a radio call for help for his team
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In a rare honour, a British soldier who died saving seven comrades during combat in Afghanistan has won the Victoria Cross, the nation's highest award, the Ministry of Defence told AFP Wednesday.
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President Bush awarded the nation's highest civilian honor Tuesday to three men central to his Iraq policy, saying they had played "pivotal roles in great events."
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A British soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan will be the first to be posthumously awarded the nation's highest military honour since the Falklands War, reports said.
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Military photographer who had been filming US air assault among seven who died.
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Bilal Hussein is an Iraqi photographer who had a hand in The Associated Pressâs 2005 Pulitzer Prize for photography before being jailed without charges by the U.S. military.
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Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld congratulated US troops Tuesday for helping give democracy a chance to take root in Afghanistan.
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A German soldier, right, of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and an Afghan security police stand guard below a poster of President Hamid Karzai in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Dec. 6, 2004.
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A gatekeeper's resolve has earned him the nickname 'Rambo' at a US base in Kabul.