US identifies soldier accused of murdering Afghan civilians
The US military on Friday identified the soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians last Sunday as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who has been transferred to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and whose four deployments over the past decade have renewed concerns about the impact of war on soldiers' mental health.
A US soldier was formally charged Friday with 17 murders over the killings of civilians in a village in southern Afghanistan, US forces said in a statement released in Kabul.