US Army sergeant kills 16 in Afghan villages

BALANDI, Afghanistan — Mov­ing from house to house, a U.S. Army sergeant opened fire Sun­day on Afghan vil­lagers as they slept, killing 16 peo­ple — mostly women and chil­dren — in an attack that reignited fury at the U.S. pres­ence fol­low­ing a wave of deadly protests over Amer­i­cans burn­ing Qurans.