AFGHANISTAN

In the search for an explanation of why a U.S. soldier left his base in Afghanistan at night and killed 16 civilians in their homes, some experts have raised the possibility that mental illness or a brain injury played a role in the massacre.

Tuesday's attack in Kandahar province came as student protesters in the eastern city of Jalalabad condemned the weekend killing of several civilians by a U.S. Army staff sergeant. The 38-year-old serviceman could face the death penalty if convicted, a top U.S. official said.

Taliban militants attacked the government delegation visiting the village where an American soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians. The delegation which included Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brothers and several top government officials was attacked from multiple directions when they reached the site in Panjwai in Kandahar province of Afghanistan, according to a BBC report.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that the death penalty could be sought over the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan, which U.S. officials said they believe was the work of a rogue American soldier.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord has once again come under media and military scrutiny after a rogue soldier from that base murdered 16 civilians in southern Afghanistan on Sunday. With some of the most notorious cases in recent military history all centered on this base and its veterans, officials would do well to look closer at what really goes on inside the military base.

An American soldier's alleged massacre of 16 Afghan civilians has inflamed anger against U.S. troops at a time when the American public -- increasingly including Republicans -- is tiring of America's decade-long presence in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Military is ready to deploy the 'Pain Ray,' a non-lethal weapon meant to control crowds by zapping them with an electromagnetic wave to create the sensation of unbearable heat.

In a June speech outlining his timetable for U.S. troops' exit, President Barack Obama vowed that the withdrawal would come at a time the United States found itself in a position of strength in Afghanistan.

Libby the cross-breed just couldn't hold it in.

Merkel also condemned the murder of 16 civilians, including nine children, in Kandahar.

In a statement on their website, the group promised to take revenge against the American savages for Sunday's bloody rampage which left 16 Afghans -- including nine children and three women -- dead.

Radio host, actor and filmmaker Alex Jones, uploaded a video on YouTube, and published it in his Web site infowars.com. The video, which claims that the documentary- Kony 2012, is a complete fraud and that it is Angelina Jolie who needs to be arrested for war crimes, has already had more than 127,410 viewers in just a day.

The Taliban vowed to avenge the deaths of 16 civilians killed in southern Afghanistan during a shocking shooting spree perpetrated by an American soldier.

US officials warn of possible reprisals after 16 Afghan villagers, mostly children and women, killed in US soldier rampage.

A rogue US soldier opened fire on villagers and killed sixteen Afghan civilians including nine children on Sunday.

After the killing of Afghan civilians by an American soldier Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said it was time for U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan.

Lawyers for the family of a man killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan said they would begin legal action against Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday, accusing him of complicity in strikes they say broke international laws.

A U.S. Army sergeant killed at least 16 civilians, nine of them children, in southern Aghanistan before dawn Sunday in the latest outrage to threaten U.S.-Afghan relations, Afghan and American officials said.

Conflicting reports surround the killing of 15 Afghan civilians in Kandahar province this weekend.

The soldier, whose identity has not yet been revealed, reportedly turned himself into military authorities.

A U.S. soldier was detained at a NATO base in Afghanistan for shooting and killing Afghan civilians Sunday, said the provincial governor Tooryalai Wesa.