Jay Morse is a retired Army lieutenant colonel. I prosecuted Robert Bales. Justice demands he remain in prison. The pardoning of convicted war criminals puts our national security at risk, is ...

News about Robert Bales, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Here's a look at former Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is serving life in prison without parole for the murders of 16 Afghan civilians in 2012.

And there are many lessons to learn from the story of Bales himself. Sgt. Bales, a 38-year-old father of two who was twice wounded in combat over the course of four deployments, was transferred ...

In jailhouse interviews, former soldier Robert Bales told an editor from GQ magazine that he was on “autopilot” on the March 2012 night when he committed one of the worst atrocities of the ...

On March 11 2012, American soldier Robert Bales stepped outside his base late at night and killed 16 civilians in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar. Nine children were among the dead. On ...

He killed 16 Afghan villagers. Now Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will never again be a free man. Six military jurors sentenced him to life without parole. Bales was able to avoid the death penalty by ple… ...

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, pictured in a file photo, has been sentenced to life without parole in the March 11, 2012, massacre during which he killed 16 Afghan civilians. Bales, 40, pleaded ...

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who has admitted to the murder of 16 civilians during a pair of solo nighttime raids in Afghanistan, was on Friday sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales apologized for massacring 16 Afghan civilians, calling the rampage an "act of cowardice and asking a jury of soldiers for leniency in his sentence.