WASHINGTON – An Afghan national who police say gunned down two National Guard members near the White House this week now faces a first-degree murder charge, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the Di...

Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s path from a village in Afghanistan to the corner in Washington, D.C., where authorities say he opened fire on two National Guard troops was forged by America’s longest war.

The New York Post has since reported that Lakanwal “struggled for years” with the violence he saw in his homeland as a part of a feared CIA -backed series of paramilitary groups known as Zero Units, w...