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"Medical charity: 6 Americans among 10 killed by militants in remote area of N Afghanistan" KABUL, AFGHANISTAN SNIPPET: "KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Six Americans and two other foreigners on a medical mission were shot and killed by the Taliban who ambushed their vehicles in a remote part of northern Afghanistan, a charity said Saturday. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in Pakistan that they killed the foreigners because they were "spying for the Americans" and "preaching Christianity.""

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2007 – Afghan national security forces, advised by coalition forces, recently brought medical assistance to Afghan civilians in Shewan, Farah province, Afghanistan. An Afghan pharmacist selects the appropriate medicine for Afghan civilians during a medical assistance engagement in Shewan, Farrah province, Afghanistan, Aug. 30. Defense Dept. photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The assistance, which took place Aug. 30, was possible only after a large-scale Afghan force movement caused insurgents to flee the city. Before the operation, Shewan was considered the most Taliban infested area in the Farah Province, coalition officials said. Almost all of...

BAGHDAD, March 19, 2007 – March 17 was a hectic day inside a makeshift clinic in the desperately poor Sadr City neighborhood here. In classrooms converted into treatment rooms, Iraqi and U.S. medics attended to a constant stream of patients, from white-bearded old men to babies only a few months old. Army Maj. John Brid, battalion surgeon for the 407th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, listens to a patient’s breathing during a joint U.S.-Iraqi medical operation in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood March 17. Photo by Sgt. Mike Pryor, USA   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

Code PinkoBy Jean PearceFrontPageMagazine.com | March 26, 2003 Like any other group, Communists come in a lot of shapes, sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink, they’re on the nightly news, and more than anything, they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think the leaders of the women’s anti-war group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October, these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast, the one about how concern for their...

A 150-member Israeli aid delegation canceled its mission to Sri Lanka on Tuesday, after the country - one of the hardest hit in the Asian tsunami disaster - refused to accept the Israeli team, Israel Defense Forces officials said. However, Israel is sending supplies at Sri Lanka's request, including 10,000 blankets contributed by the IDF, tents, nylon sheeting and water containers. The IDF Home Front Command is organizing aid preparations. The Israeli humanitarian organization Latet ("To give") is sending a separate aid package Tuesday. It is filling a jumbo jet with 18 tons of supplies worth $50,000, at Sri Lanka's...

NEW YORK (AP) - A medical aid group said Friday that the American news media last year provided too little coverage of some world trouble spots, including the conflicts in Colombia, Chechnya and Congo. In its annual list of "underreported humanitarian stories," Medecins Sans Frontieres also cited a lack of media attention to the high death toll worldwide from malaria, the crises in North Korea and Somalia and the limited access of poor people to anti-AIDS medicines. "It's clearly a valid criticism when applied most broadly to the American media, but some of those conflicts such as the Congo and...