5 results for "Jay Price"
Delay in mine project shadows hopes for Afghan economy
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 12:37 PMThe giant copper mine that the Afghan government has made the centerpiece of its plans for building an economy nearly from scratch is at least five years behind schedule and the state-owned Chinese company that won the bidding has missed key dea...
As combat role eases, aircraft crashes are biggest killer of U.S. troops in Afghanistan
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 1:58 PMU.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan remain at the lowest levels in recent years. The number so far this year, 33, is the lowest at this point since 2008. After air accidents, the next biggest cause of death was improvised bombs, which claimed at le...
New details emerge in fatal bomb blast
Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 12:00 AMA promising young U.S. Foreign Service officer, three American soldiers and a civilian government contractor who were killed Saturday in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan probably wouldn't have been close to the blast if they hadn't gotte...
Dozens killed as Taliban attack Afghan courthouse
Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 12:00 AMTaliban fighters wearing Afghan army uniforms stormed a provincial courthouse in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 90.
Rural N.C. county had a role in Osama bin Laden's death
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 4:23 AMAfter nearly half a century of explosions, folks in Perquimans County, North Carolina, have become blasé about the sharp cracks and house-shaking rumbles that roll out of the secretive, government-owned peninsula in Albemarle Sound.
