Summary: The death of Osama bin Laden was more than just a national moment of relief and closure. It was also a measure of payback, a settling of a score for a pair of deaths, the details of which have remained secret for 13 years — CIA operatives Tom Shah and Molly Huckaby Hardy, who were among the 44 U.S. Embassy employees killed when a truck bomb exploded outside the embassy compound in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 29, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht, 24, of College Station, Texas, became the 1,000th U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan when he stepped on an explosive device May 27, 2010 in Helmand province.

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Summary: Eight U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan when powerful bombs exploded in a field where they were on a foot patrol. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 26, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the Department of Defense alerted the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division, Minnesota Army National Guard, to stand by for deployment to Iraq in summer 2011.

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Summary: Angry over the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistani lawmakers are demanding an end to U.S. missile strikes against Islamist militants on their soil and warned that Pakistan may cut NATO’s supply line to Afghanistan if the attacks don’t stop. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 14, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Al-Qaida in Iraq warned Shiites that “dark days soaked with blood” lay ahead with a new campaign of violence yet to come.

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Summary: Eight American troops and a U.S. contractor died after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting at Kabul airport — the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Summary: An April 13 NATO airstrike in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province killed Abu Hafs al-Najdi, AKA Abdul Ghania, a key al-Qaida operative in Afghanistan. Ghani was a regional commander in charge of suicide bombings and cash flow. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 26, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a review panel invalidated votes cast for 52 candidates in Iraq’s election, throwing into doubt the slim lead of former prime minister Iyad Allawi’s cross-sectarian, Sunni-backed Iraqiya alliance over Shi’ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition and setting the stage for a possible spike in sectarian violence.

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Summary: As the Taliban spring offensive heats up in Afghanistan, here’s a quick guide to 12 of the most-hunted insurgent commanders on the front lines in the AfPak war. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the two top-ranking leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, were killed in a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation on Sunday, April 18, 2010, in what Vice President Joe Biden called a “potentially devastating blow” to the terrorist operation.

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Summary: Afghanistan’s fighting season will begin in full force by the end of April — and with it, a chance to measure the success of NATO’s efforts to turn back the Taliban. The extent to which the Taliban return to the fight will also help determine whether the surge of more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops that President Obama announced in December 2009 succeeded in arresting the insurgency. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 16, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported a New York Times/CBS News poll that found the 18 percent of Americans who identified themselves as Tea Party supporters were wealthier and more well-educated than the general public and tended to be Republican, white, male, and married.

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Summary: A U.S. Marine reservist, Staff Sgt. Jeremy Smith, and a Navy corpsman, Seaman Benjamin Rast, were killed by a Hellfire missile fired from a U.S. Air Force Predator drone in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan — an apparent case of mistaken identity. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 13, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: At least 10 people have been killed and 83 injured in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, on a second day of violent protests over the actions of extremist Christian fundamentalist preacher Terry Jones, who supervised the burning of a Quran in front of about 50 people at a church in Florida on March 20. The new violence came one day after protesters overran a U.N. mission in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, killing seven foreign staff in the deadliest attack on the U.N. in Afghanistan. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 3, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the FBI was warning police across the country that the call of an anti-government group — a “sovereign citizen” group called Guardians of the Free Republics — to remove governors from office could provoke violence.

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Summary: Three suicide bombers killed 20 people in an attack on a construction firm in southeastern Afghanistan, with the Taliban claiming responsibility for the assault. … The Taliban claimed that it kidnapped 50 Afghan policemen in northeastern Afghanistan — part of the insurgents’ murder and intimidation campaign against anyone affiliated with the U.S.-backed government. … A provincial governor in southern Afghanistan said that seven civilians were accidentally killed when a NATO helicopter fired on two vehicles believed to be carrying Taliban fighters. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on March 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the U.S. and Russia sealed the first major nuclear weapons treaty in nearly two decades, agreeing to slash the former Cold War rivals’ warhead arsenals by nearly one-third and talking optimistically of eventually ridding the world of nuclear arms altogether.

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