Us Soldier Killed Afghans

• Neighbours say Afghan attack suspect was family man

  Neighbours of a soldier accused of gunning down 16 Afghan women and children in a night time rampage describe him as a family man, playing with his two kids outside his home.

• US suspect in Afghan shootings identified

  After five days cloaked in military secrecy, the U.S. soldier suspected in a massacre of 16 Afghan civilians was identified on Friday as a father of two who underwent anger management counseling a decade ago after an arrest for assault on a girlfriend.

• No sudden changes in Afghan withdrawal: Obama

  President Barack Obama on Wednesday said that there would be no "sudden" changes to the pace of troop draw downs in Afghanistan, and told a weary US public the war was making "real progress."

• Obama seeks to calm Afghan massacre fallout

  President Barack Obama has sought to calm outrage over a shooting massacre by a US soldier in Afghanistan, saying he took the tragedy as seriously as if Americans had been slaughtered.

• Afghan delegation attacked by militants at site of US killings

  Taliban militants opened fire on Tuesday on an Afghan government delegation visiting one of the two villages in southern Afghanistan where a US soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians. The gunfire killed an Afghan soldier who was providing security for the delegation, said Gen. Abdul Razaq, the police chief for Kandahar province where the visi...

• US soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians could get death

  The US soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage could face the death penalty if convicted, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday.

• Kandahar massacre: Afghan lawmakers demand US soldier's public trial

  The Afghan Parliament demanded on Monday that a US soldier who went on a shooting spree and killed 16 villagers in their homes should be put on public trial in Afghanistan.

• Obama calls Karzai after US soldier goes on rampage to kill 16 civilians in Afghanistan

  Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan early on Sunday, igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility, Afghan and American officials s

• US soldier gets 24 years for murders of 3 Afghans

  A U.S. soldier who pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murders of three Afghan civilians was sentenced to 24 years in prison after saying "the plan was to kill people" in a conspiracy with four fellow soldiers.Military judge Lt. Col. Kwasi Hawks said he initially intended to sentence Spc. Jeremy Morlock, of Wasilla, Alaska, to life in prison with possi...