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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. probe on Thursday found both American and Pakistani forces were to blame for a border incident that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month, inflaming already strained ties and deepening doubts about whether Pakistan will help ...

ATLANTA ? A federal judge on Thursday blocked the most controversial parts of South Carolina?s new immigration law from taking effect next month. The decision, by Judge Richard M. Gergel of Federal District Court in Charleston, S.C., sets the stage for a ...

Defense Strategies Institute, a Veteran Owned SBA, will host it's upcoming U.S. - Canada Border Security Summit in Detroit, MI, April 3 - 4, 2012.In a field such as border security, where there are multiple agents acting in tandem, it is extremely ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. A federal judge Thursday blocked several provisions of South Carolinas tough new immigration law from taking effect New Year's Day, including a requirement for law officers to check the immigration status of people they pull over if ...

The U.S. account of what happened November 25-26, when U.S. airstrikes killed two dozen Pakistani troops in a cross-border skirmish riddled with mistakes. The U.S. has accepted partial blame for the incident, but says Pakistani troops fired first and the ...

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Daya Gamage US National Correspondent Asian Tribune The U.S. military acknowledged December 22 in a statement that its commanders in Afghanistan made a serious mistake during a cross-border raid last month in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed. ...

WASHINGTON--A U.S. probe Thursday found both American and Pakistani forces were to blame for a border incident that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month, inflaming already strained ties and deepening doubts about whether Pakistan will help or hinder the ...

A federal judge in South Carolina temporarily blocked portions of the states stringent immigration law Thursday, most notably a provision requiring police to detain any person they suspect to be in the country illegally. U.S. District Judge Richard ...

Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Enforcement of South Carolinas immigration law, scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, was partially blocked by a federal court at the request of the U.S. government. U.S. District Judge Richard Mark Gergel said the Justice Department ...

Military spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas speaks during a news conference in Rawalpindi April 29, 2009.Reuters ISLAMABAD: Pakistani military Thursday rejected the conclusions of a US investigation into a Nato airstrike that killed two dozen ...

By Missy Ryan and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. probe on Thursday found both American and Pakistani forces were to blame for a border incident that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month, inflaming already strained ties and deepening doubts ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - South Carolina cannot enforce several key areas of its new law aimed at curbing illegal immigration, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. The law is set to take effect on January 1. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ...

PHOENIX A judge will hear arguments Thursday in a lawsuit that alleges racial profiling in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaios immigration patrols, a week after federal authorities accused the sheriffs office of a wide range of civil rights violations. ...

The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced his resignation on Thursday, less than two years after being appointed to the job by President Obama. Commissioner Alan Bersin, who was one of 15 administration officials given recess appointments ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel enjoining key provisions of a South Carolina's immigration enforcement law subjugates federal statutes to the politically driven policies of ...

(CNN) -- A federal judge in Charleston, South Carolina blocked Thursday parts of the state's anti-illegal immigration law approved by the legislature last summer. District Judge Richard Mark Gergel blocked three parts of the law, known both as SB20 and ...

KABUL, Afghanistan Mistakes by both American and Pakistani forces led to airstrikes against Pakistani posts on the Afghanistan border that killed 26 Pakistani Army soldiers last month, according to a Pentagon investigation that for the first time ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A U.S. military investigation has blamed poor coordination between American and Pakistani forces for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a friendly fire incident along the Afghanistan border in November, the Pentagon said ...

(Updates with comments by Little and Clark starting in third paragraph.) Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. military forces in Afghanistan share responsibility for a Nov. 26 border clash that resulted in the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers, the Pentagon said in ...