Bomber not far from their base in the north. Three americans and three afghans were wounded. Margaret brennan reports tonight from the pentagon. Reporter the American Service members were stopped at a local Meeting Point while on patrol with Afghan Forces when a suicide bomber drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into the group. The taliban took credit for the attack, which happened nearby bagram air field, the largest remaining u. S. Military base in afghanistan. The pentagon has warned that the insurgents have been gaining strength since the end of the u. S. Combat mission. The taliban has seized control of the strategic Helmand Province in the south as well as getting closer to important cities. National security analyst Michael Ohanlon just returned from afghanistan. The threat remains roughly constant. The insurgency is resilient, and we have 100,000 fewer combined forces on patrol across the country. Reporter so far this year 20 American Service members have been killed. The
New evidence is giving clues as to what happened aboard egyptair flight 804 just moments before it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. Cnn has learn smoke alerts went off shortly before the plane disappeared from radar. Searchers have as found debris and human remains in the sea. But we still dont know what caused that plane to crash on thursday. There was 66 people on board. Egyptian officials expect terrorism but no group has come forward to claim responsibility. Lets get the latest from Cnn International correspondent arwa damon live at cairos international airport. Arwa, what more are you hearing about this investigation at this point . Reporter well, george, the details that are coming to lighting are really serving mostly to add to the mystery surrounding what the cause of this possible crash may be. You do have these various different smoke alarms that were set off, that arent even necessarily definitively indicative of any sort of fire breaking out. But could also have been set
This is cnn newsroom. Good day to you. It is 2 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. First to israel a. Spokesperson for the Prime Minister netanyahu says that there is proof. He says that proof is ironclad that the United States orchestrated a receipt u. N. Security council vote on friday condemning israeli settlements in both the west bank and jerusalem. The u. S. Has denied that but mr. Netanyahu is fewurious abou it. Now he is 4ri8ing ties with all Security Council members who voted for the resolution. The u. S. Refrained from the vote which allowed the resolution to pass. We have been hearing a lot of encouraging statements from the current u. S. Administration. And we have been urging them to translate lost statements into action. The United States did what conforms with what its long standing policy since the days of Linden Johnson in 1967. Ronald reagan, the republican president , used ab tension is seven times during his two terms as president of the United States to allow resolut
This is the cbs weekend news. Morgan good evening, im Demarco Morgan. This is our western edition. Americas oldest ally elected its youngest president today. French voters chose 39 year old emmanuel macron, a centrist over right wing rival Marine Le Pen. The election which included a hack attack on the winner was seen as a test of the global populism of the brexit vote in britain and President Trump vote in the u. S. President trump congratulated macron on twitter saying he looks forward to, working with him. Mark philips is in paris. Well, an election full of guger, scandal and intrigue has d the end produced the expected result. Fomanuel macron, a 39 year old former investment banker and former cabinet minister who has never run for Public Office refore, has been elected the next president of france. He does not come from either of the main traditional political parties. French voters rejected the tscialists and the conservative republicans in the first round, and they rejected the f
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