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Patrick H. Watrous spent almost 30 days feeding troops at Bagram’s North Dining Facility in support of withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.. “We pretty much worked all day, ...
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Early on Friday mornings, billows of smoke can be seen rising through the air moving with the wind and dancing to the sound of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It will be h… ...
There are currently 18 times as many detainees at Bagram than at the U.S. military prison at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base, whose prisoner population has dwindled from a peak of 780 to 170.
For those who followed the debate over the legal rights of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, it might seem like a case of deja vu. This time the question is whether about 600 detainees held ...
The Justice Department, saying top officials have authorized a swift appeal, asked a federal District Court judge on Friday to put on hold a ruling that would extend some constitutional rights to ...
For nearly 20 years, Bagram Airfield was the heart of American military power in Afghanistan, a sprawling mini-city behind fences and blast walls just an hour’s drive north of Kabul. Initially ...
A federal appeals court panel should uphold a ruling that non-Afghan detainees spirited to the prison at Bagram Air Base could not be denied a court review.
Bagram's Black Hole. President-elect Barack Obama is considering closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center, but what of the more than 600 prisoners indefinitely detained without charges--and ...
No U.S. or coalition casualties were reported after the attack. LONDON and KABUL -- A suicide bomber struck an under construction medical facility at Bagram, the largest U.S. military base in ...
Arguing that the U.S. government has switched its detention policy at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, lawyers for three prisoners there have asked a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court to reconsider its ...
A federal appeals court’s ruling denying habeas corpus hearings to detainees at the American military prison at Bagram in Afghanistan is distressing.