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Robert Bales marked his 1,192nd day of combat deployment ... a portrait emerges of a soldier and a young family struggling under the cumulative physical and emotional strain of a decade of ...
The Army soldier accused of slaughtering 17 Afghan civilians could face the death penalty if he is convicted, the Associated Press reported Friday. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is being held at ...
The U.S. soldier accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians admitted in the aftermath that he killed some men — but didn’t mention murdering women and children. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales ...
Yesterday, the Pentagon finally complied. We now know the soldier in question to be staff sergeant Robert Bales, a 38-year-old father of two, who lived in the small town of Lake Trapps ...
Robert Bales showed a split personality to his fellow soldiers at a small outpost in Southern Afghanistan. As far as soldiers who outranked him were concerned, the Tacoma-area soldier was the ...
Prosecutors could seek death penalty for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales. Dec. 19, 2012 — -- An American soldier will face a court martial where he could be given the death penalty if found guilty of ...
On a winding road of wood-frame homes tucked amid towering pines, Robert Bales was the father who joined his two young children for playtime in the yard, a career soldier who greeted neighbors ...
As the American soldier accused of the murder of 16 Afghan villagers arrives at a US military base in Kansas, Philip Sherwell looks at the man who has plunged US-Afghan relations to a new low.
Robert Bales identified as suspect in killing 16 ... Neighbors painted a picture of the career soldier as a family man who spoke little about his deployments. Kassie Holland, a neighbor, told ...
Robert Bales called his wife Karilyn Bales ... the U.S. military said. The 38-year-old soldier is accused of walking off a U.S. military base with his 9mm pistol and M-4 rifle, which was outfitted ...
In the few days since we posted my story on Robert Bales ... When I interviewed the soldiers who knew Bales, and with other cases I've worked on, they almost always tell me, "Your job is to ...