US report: Taliban will likely curtail Afghan women's rights

U.S. intelligence agencies are warning that any gains in women’s rights in Afghanistan made in the last two decades will be at risk after U.S. troops withdraw later this year. An unclassified report released Tuesday by the Director of National Intelligence says the conflicts remain “broadly consistent in its restrictive approach to women’s rights and would roll back…

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Thousands of soldiers head home for the holidays

Bright headlights lit up the dark roads leading into Fort Benning as hundreds of families waited for the clock to strike midnight Thursday. Wives, fathers, sisters, and other family members lined up in their cars outside the gates of the Georgia military base so they could pick up their soldiers for the holidays.  More than…

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