Trump says one of National Guard members shot in Washington DC has died

‘The toll is heavy.’ Idaho’s Afghans face uncertainty as Trump targets immigrants

Eddie Hamdard, left, his mother Mah Gol Hamdard, sister Zohra Hamdard and brother Ahmad Shoaib Hamdard are refugees from Afghanistan in Boise feeling scrutiny after a shooting far away in Washington, D.C. | Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — Eddie Hamdard moved to the U.S. from Afghanistan in 2014 to build a new life. After helping support the U.S. military for several years in the western part of his home nation, he accepte…

National Guard Promotes Public Safety

I recently led a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to examine the deployment of the National Guard to several American cities. Over the past several months, President Trump has directed Guardsmen to come alongside local and federal law enforcement agencies to help restore order. From 2019 to 2024, the violent crime rate in cities increased more than 60 percent. Last year, it was double the rate in rural areas. As the violence skyrocketed, …

The Washington Attack & Global Security Threat

Perhaps the most atrocious focused assault on 26 November in downtown Washington, which is just a few blocks off of the White House, where two United States National Guard troops were in critical condition, is a blacker chapter in the history of the world of global terror. The fact that the suspect is an Afghan […] The post The Washington Attack & Global Security Threat appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.

Occupation, boycott, death: The month that changed D.C.

I didn’t expect to begin this article on a sidewalk. But on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, around noon, I mentally finalized what I thought would be a clean two-week account of Washington’s slow tightening. I got off the Metrorail at 14th and Irving to join the #WeAintBuyingIt rally in front of Target’s entrances. A small crowd had gathered, calm and steady, holding signs. Someone turned to me and said, almost casually, “This is Week 36.” Thir…

National Guard member injured in shooting 'slowly healing': WV governor

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement Friday that National Guard member Andrew Wolfe's head wound is "slowly healing" and that "he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" according to his parents. Wolfe,24, was injured after he and another West Virginia National Guard member, Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, were shot near the White House in November. Beckstrom,20, ultimately died from injuries she sustained in the shooting. Morris…

The National Guard shooting in Washington DC: Why did it happen?

When I was deployed to Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008 to advise the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), I began my tour near Kandahar.