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Troops sent to repel a Taliban advance toward the Pakistani capital killed 14 suspected militants, the army said Thursday, and accused insurgents holding an entire town hostage.
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President Barack Obama claimed that America will not be retaining any permanent bases in Iraq. This was meant to be a sign to Iraqis and the broader Arab world that the...
made popular Jul 1 2009
Lurid artificial flowers and tinsel decorated the police cars and balloons and streamers adorned the concrete security checkpoints of South Baghdad yesterday as...
made popular Jun 30 2009
Almost 10 days before the scheduled American pullout from Iraq’s urban centres, US forces on Saturday handed their base in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr city to...
made popular Jun 26 2009
Britain allowed southern Iraq to deteriorate after the 2003 invasion because it switched attention to the conflict in Afghanistan, the head of the army said...
made popular Jun 24 2009
On 30 June the last US troops will pull out of the Iraqi cities. America’s great adventure in Iraq is ending. Already there are few US military patrols in...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Iraq’s deadliest bomb this year ripped through a Shia mosque in the north of the country yesterday, killing at least 73 people and injuring around 200.
A suicide...
made popular Jun 22 2009
At night, Aysar Jaber listens to her 11-year-old son scream in his sleep in the family’s Phoenix, Ariz., apartment, plagued by nightmares about violence in his...
made popular Jun 20 2009
Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Waving a political banner – it’s wonderfully rousing in a revolution, but fatally tedious in a drama. Overt political posturing is the enemy of art. Drama turns...
made popular Jun 12 2009
The young women of Baghdad acknowledge that there are more serious concerns in Iraq these days than hair, clothes and makeup.
But they also say that there might be...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Britain’s final military mission in Iraq is in disarray after a failure to seal an agreement with the Baghdad Government by the end of last month forced two British...
made popular Jun 3 2009
Guns, women and fistfuls of allegedly misappropriated dollars: the trail leading to the arrest of the former Iraqi Trade Minister has the perfect ingredients for a...
made popular Jun 1 2009
It goes like this: Boy meets girl. They exchange glances and text messages, the limit of respectable courting here. Then boy asks girl’s father for her hand. Dad...
made popular May 30 2009
Iraq plans to arrest 1,000 officials for corruption after a scandal which has forced the resignation of the Trade Minister and is threatening the food supply of...
made popular May 29 2009
Around the beginning of May, and after resurgence of violence in Iraq, reports from Iraqi government came to reassure the American withdrawal from urban areas by the...
made popular May 28 2009
Baghdad – In a legacy of the US rush to build up Iraqi security forces, almost one-quarter of the Iraqi Army currently fails to meet its own minimum qualifications...
made popular May 26 2009
An American army member (Elbert W. George III) pleaded guilty for stealing and selling military equipment in Iraq, worth hundreds of thousands of Dollars, to be the...
made popular May 25 2009
Four US contractors for the company formerly known as Blackwater were not authorised to carry weapons when they were involved in a deadly shooting in Afghanistan this...
made popular May 21 2009
An American soldier opened fire on his comrades last Monday at Camp Liberty, which happens to be an American army base in Iraq, to kill 5 army members.
Initial reports...
made popular May 14 2009
In Basra’s Hayaniyah district, a notorious stronghold of Shia militias, a US army sergeant leading a patrol faced two suspects in the street. Amid rising tension...
made popular May 11 2009
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At a military checkpoint between Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia, the word “Russia” is hand-painted in pink on a concrete security...
made popular Apr 21 2009
AP, Wellington
The U.S. has formally asked New Zealand to send its elite Special Air Service combat troops back to Afghanistan for a fourth tour of duty, the foreign minister said...
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AP, Sunland Park
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has toured a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border but says there are no plans to send troops there as some governors are...
made popular Apr 17 2009
AP, Washington
A House subcommittee on Tuesday will take a look at military programs targeting mental health.
made popular Mar 3 2009
AP, Washington
President Barack Obama says he wants to raise the pay of America’s fighting forces and improve health care and benefits for veterans.
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AP, Fort Drum
The nation’s top military officer is telling soldiers that no more than about 30,000 additional troops will be sent to Afghanistan as the U.S. ramps up forces...
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AP, Berlin
German troops will be stationed in neighboring France for the first time since the Nazi occupation during World War II, both countries’ leaders announced...
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AP, Berlin
German troops will be stationed in neighboring France for the first time since the Nazi occupation during World War II, both countries’ leaders announced...
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AP, Washington
President Barack Obama said Sunday that the peaceful elections in Iraq are “good news” for U.S. troops and their families, and he agreed with the suggestion...
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WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will give President Barack Obama his formal recommendation on new U.S. troop deployments to...
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AP, Washington
The Pentagon is poised to announce the deployment of at least one more combat brigade to Afghanistan in the coming weeks, as the expected force buildup of U.S. soldiers...
made popular Dec 22 2008
AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s parliament speaker has delayed a session to approve a resolution allowing British and other non-American troops to remain in Iraq until July 2009.
made popular Dec 22 2008
AP, Madrid
Spain’s defense minister says she will propose lifting a limit on how many troops the country can deploy overseas.
made popular Dec 10 2008
AP, Baghdad
Two American servicemen were killed Tuesday when a gunman in an Iraqi army uniform opened fire while they were distributing humanitarian aid in northern Iraq, the U.S....
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AP, Baghdad
Two American servicemen were killed Tuesday after a gunman in an Iraqi army uniform opened fire while they were distributing humanitarian aid in northern Iraq, the U.S....
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Baghdad
The U.S. military says two American troops have been killed after coming under small-arms fire while distributing humanitarian aid in northern Iraq.
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Fort Campbell
President George W. Bush offered an impassioned defense of the U.S. -led overthrow of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday at Fort Campbell where he thanked troops for their...
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Fort Campbell
President George W. Bush is at Fort Campbell in Kentucky thanking troops for their service and having lunch with about 150 soldiers, many of them just back from Iraq...
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Washington
President Bush is praising the treatment of wounded U.S. troops after visiting them at a government medical facility.
made popular Nov 10 2008
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A U.S. soldier shakes hand with an Iraqi child during a routine patrol in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. U.S. President Barack Obama will announce Friday that he plans to withdraw the bulk of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of August...
