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“Trauma Never Goes Away”: As America Forgets, Iraq War Stays With U.S. Veterans

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

Tim McLaughlin commanded a Marine Corps tank platoon that took part in some of the earliest fighting of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Like many veterans, the experience left him with post-traumatic stress and conflicted feelings about the war. In an attempt to process his experiences, after his service, McLaughlin left the U.S. and moved to Bosnia, where he lived for nine months in a home looking over the old city of Sarajevo — a place that, like Iraq, had been the site of terrible violence.“I just wanted to be able to go to a country that had experienced mass trauma and to see how people dealt with it,” McLaughlin said. “What I learnt is that for people who experience it, trauma never goes away.”Twenty years since U.S. troops first invaded, the U.S. war in Iraq has become a faded memory to many Americans. For Iraqis themselves, the consequences of the war are still an unavoidable part of their daily lives. But trauma also lingers for a group of Americans unlikely to forget the war as ...

Palestinians: 4 killed in Israeli army raid in West Bank

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli army raid killed four Palestinians, including a teenage boy, near the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, Palestinian officials said.It was the latest bloodshed in a year-long wave of violence in the region.The Israeli military confirmed its troops were operating in the Jenin refugee camp, but provided no further details. The area is known as a stronghold of Palestinian militants, and Israel frequently conducts military raids in the area. The Palestinian health ministry identified three of the dead as Youssef Shreem, 29, Nidal Khazim, 28, and Omar Awadin, 16. The identity of the fourth was not immediately known. Amateur video taken by people in Jenin appeared to show a crowd of Palestinians surrounding a car that people suspected carried undercover Israeli troops. Another clip appeared to show Israeli military vehicles towing the car away. Thursday’s deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed since the start of the year to 83 as Israel has s...

2 police officers killed in Canadian city of Edmonton

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Edmonton police said Thursday that two patrol officers were killed while responding to a call.Police did not immediately release any details about what happened. Police chief Dale McFee was expected to make a statement later Thursday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted his condolences and support to the officers’ loved ones and colleagues.“Every day, police officers put themselves in harm’s way to keep people safe. The news that two ⁦‪Edmonton police‬⁩ officers have been killed in the line of duty reminds us of that reality” Trudeau wrote. In response to the deaths, the Edmonton Police Commission canceled a public meeting that had been planned for Thursday. Police services in Calgary, Vancouver the Greater Toronto Area and Halifax expressed condolences on Twitter.Source

Flood deaths in Turkey’s earthquake-stricken area rise to 16

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

Rescue teams on Thursday retrieved two more bodies after floods struck two Turkish provinces that were already devastated by last month’s powerful earthquake, raising the death toll in the new disaster to 16.Flash floods caused by torrential rains turned streets in the provinces of Adiyaman and Sanlifurfa into rivers on Wednesday, sweeping away cars and inundating homes and campsites sheltering earthquake survivors.Most of the deaths occurred in Sanliurfa, where rescuers on Thursday found the bodies of two people who had been reported missing amid mud and debris left by the floods. The search teams there were still looking for one missing person.In Adiyaman, two people drowned after a container home sheltering a family of earthquake survivors was washed away by surging waters. A nurse and her two-year-old child are still missing.Adiyaman and Sanliurfa were among 11 Turkish provinces that were hit by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Feb. 6, killing more than 48,000 people in Turkey and ...

Dortmund needs quick recovery to keep Bundesliga exciting

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — After hitting its first bumps of 2023, Borussia Dortmund needs to recover quickly to keep the Bundesliga title race exciting before facing Bayern Munich.Schalke ended Dortmund’s perfect league record since the turn of the year with a 2-2 draw on Saturday. It came after the club was knocked out of the Champions League by Chelsea the previous Tuesday — a 2-0 loss in the second leg that ended Dortmund’s 10-game winning run since the winter break.There’s concern now that tiredness and injuries are taking their toll just when the season enters its decisive phase. Ten matches in the Bundesliga remain. Dortmund next hosts Cologne on Saturday before visiting Bayern for “der Klassiker” on April 1.Worries about the form of forward Sébastien Haller are not helping.Haller had been expected to help fill the gap left by Erling Haaland’s departure for Manchester City, but the Ivory Coast striker has scored only one goal in 12 appearances in all competitions since returning in January...

Pentagon video shows Russian jet dumping fuel on US drone

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Pentagon on Thursday released video of what it said was a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone before the warplane clipped the drone’s propeller in international airspace, leading to its crash in the Black Sea and raising tensions between Moscow and Washington over the war in Ukraine.Poland, meanwhile, said it’s giving Ukraine a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, becoming the first NATO member to fulfill Kyiv’s increasingly urgent requests for warplanes. The U.S. military’s declassified 42-second color footage shows a Russian Su-27 approaching the back of the MQ-9 Reaper drone and releasing fuel as it passes, the Pentagon said. Dumping the fuel appeared to be aimed at blinding the drone’s optical instruments to drive it from the area.On a second approach, either the same jet or another Russian fighter that had been shadowing the MQ-9 struck the drone’s propeller, damaging a blade, according to the U.S. milit...

Russia OKs alternative civil service for mobilized believer

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia has affirmed the right of a man mobilized to fight in Ukraine to instead do alternative civil service on grounds of his religious beliefs, setting a precedent that could empower more reluctant draftees to try and get out of military service.Resistance against the mobilization in Russia last year has been quite common, even though the authorities said they were able to call up some 300,000 men, as was planned. Tens of thousands of men fled the country, and some of those who stayed avoided enlistment officials and ignored the summons. Others contested enlistment in courts, including by claiming their right for alternative civil service.The Leningrad Regional Court upheld a ruling of a lower court on Thursday that deemed the drafting of Pavel Mushumansky unlawful and affirmed his right for alternative civil service, Mushumansky’s lawyer Alexander Peredruk reported.Peredruk told The Associated Press in a phone interview that it is the firs...

$20K reward for information on East Colfax homicide

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Metro Denver Crime Stoppers has just increased the reward for information on a 2020 homicide in the East Colfax neighborhood.Officers with the Denver Police Department are looking for any information related to a homicide that took place on Sept. 10, 2020. The reward is now up to $20,000. Driver, passenger shot while turning onto Colfax Avenue According to DPD, the shooting happened at 3:55 a.m. in the 1700 block of North Quebec Street and North Quince Street in the East Colfax neighborhood. When police arrived to the scene they located Zackary Smith who had been shot and killed. Police are looking for information on a 2020 homicide case that killed the above victim, Zackary Smith. (Metro Denver Crime Stoppers)Nearly three years later, police are asking anyone who has information regarding this homicide to call the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers. Tipsters can remain anonymous and still be eligible for the cash reward of up to $20,000.

Finally, Denver has its 1st measurable snow of March

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — It only took two weeks, but Denver International Airport finally recorded its first amount of measurable snow for the month of March. While Thursday's snowstorm didn't end with any major totals, according to the National Weather Service it dropped 1.5 inches of snow at DIA marking it the first measurable snow of the month.While Thursday's snowstorm didn't end with any major totals, some areas saw measurable snow. Normally, March is Denver's snowiest month with an average of 11.5 inches of accumulation. But this year, March has had a drier start than usual putting the city way behind track for monthly snowfall. Cool, wet end of March possible in Colorado However, Pinpoint Weather Meteorologist Travis Michels said we are still above our seasonal total of snowfall to date. DIA was above average for snowfall through February, and even with a drier-than-normal March, the city is still exceeding its normal snowfall. As of Thursday, DIA has seen 43.1 inches of snow, and o...

Boar rescued from 'hogging the roadway'

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:55:32 GMT

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- Colorado State Patrol and Larimer County Sheriff's deputies respond to a variety of situations, but one particular call was quite different.Troopers and deputies rescued a 350-pound boar that got out of its pen and ended up roaming about. They were able to keep the animal calm until a brand inspector showed up to help get it back to the owner. It not only made for a fun, happy-ending story, but it also gave the Sheriff's Office a chance to be punny. Stray pig with overgrown hooves finds forever home "If one thing's for certain, it's that this job is never boaring... Deputies recently responded to the report of a loose animal hogging the roadway. It's unclear where this little piggie was going (initially said he had gone to the market, then he said he was going home, but we suspect he may have escaped from the pen)," the Larimer County Sheriff's Office posted on its Facebook page. But the boar wasn't the only pig in the news. Nexstar's KXRM in Color...