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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest American military operation here since the fall of the...
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The offensive was led by 4,000 Marines who were sent to Afghanistan as part of the new U.S. troop surge. The move is seen as an early test of the Obama...
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Everything in the world doesn’t necessarily happen for the first time. American soldiers are supposedly the “prime targets” of Taliban and Al-Qaeda as is put...
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The United States army says it has launched a major offensive against the Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
The US military says about 4,000 marines...
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As the days are closing to the second landmark Presidential Elections in Afghanistan’s recent history, the sitting president is seeking his re-election. His campaign...
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In a move that could be the biggest joke of the century for at least in Afghanistan, the US-installed Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a News conference turned angry...
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Ten days after the formal launching of election campaigns in Afghanistan, several Presidential Nominees have voiced their concerns on the worsening security threats in...
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Afghanistan’s kidnap economy has not quite reached the heights of Iraq’s at its worst point, but it is certainly a growth industry and shows the same ugly nexus...
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The idea to transform a vacant tract near the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif into a sprawling commercial farm, with miles of strawberry fields and thousands of cashmere...
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No sooner had Pakistan announced its plans to attack South Waziristan than some pundits began to hail the operation as the Waterloo of the Taleban and al-Qaeda...
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As many as 91 civilians were killed when a neighbouring villager lied to US special forces about Taliban positions it was claimed.
The deaths in a night assault by US...
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Yesterday’s attack on Peshawar’s Pearl Continental Hotel was the latest signal of Pakistan’s growing Islamist insurgency.
Since the raid by the Pakistani...
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British troops fighting the Taliban are facing three times as many attacks as any other Nato force in Afghanistan amid spiralling violence across the country which has...
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Reporting from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan — The accusation was damning: U.S. soldiers were said to have tossed a grenade into a crowd of Afghans in the eastern...
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For the usually peaceful Norfolk countryside it was a startling sight: a suicide bomber appeared to blow himself up, seriously wounding a passer-by and scaring several...
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The U.S. military, which built itself for Iraq, is racing to remake itself for Afghanistan.
The effort is on full display at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, a sprawling...
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The soldiers turned on each other with shoves, punches and kicks. One swung an ammunition can in a slow-motion haymaker. The patrol had already been hapless: a display...
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Afghan government officials claim that diseases originating from the pollution of living environment in Kabul city only, kill at least eight (8) in every 24 hours. This...
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A number of Members of Afghan Parliament (Wolasi Jirga) have accused foreign troops, stationed in Afghanistan for fighting Al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels, of committing...
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The United States army says it has launched a major offensive against the Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
The US military says about 4,000 marines...
made popular Jul 2 2009
AP, Washington
Iraq is stable enough to allow the roughly 22,000 U.S. Marines there to withdraw, the service’s top general said Friday.
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Nearly a decade ago, the U.S. Marines staged mock urban battles designed to test future tactics for fighting in streets and alleys. The war games featured an array of...
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It is no surprise that what is considered as cutting edge technology when it comes to civilian products is actually ancient history that the military has already used...
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Rumour says that the future of the American Marine Corp is going to be in Afghanistan. News that the bush administration is retooling it Afghanistan Stratergy and the...
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AP, Kabul
U.S. Marines who took back a key town in southern Afghanistan from Taliban militants in an operation earlier this year turned over responsibility for the area to...
made popular Sep 8 2008
AP, Baghdad
Iraqi troops captured two suspected insurgents linked to a suicide bombing that killed three U.S. Marines and several Sunni sheiks, the military said Friday.
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AP, Kabul
A U.S. Marines commander said Wednesday his troops have killed 400 insurgents in southern Afghanistan since late April.Col. Peter Petronzio, the commander of the 24th...
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AP, Kabul
A U.S. Marines commander said Wednesday his troops have killed 400 insurgents in southern Afghanistan since late April.Col. Peter Petronzio, the commander of the 24th...
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AP, Kabul
A U.S. Marines commander says his troops have killed 400 insurgents in southern Afghanistan since April.Col. Peter Petronzio, the commander of the 24th Marine...
made popular Jul 9 2008
AP, Cairo
Al-Qaida’s affiliate in Iraq has released an Internet statement claiming responsibility for an attack that killed more than 20 people, including three U.S....
made popular Jun 28 2008
AP, Baghdad
A member of an extremist cell believed to be behind a suicide attack that killed more than 20 people including three U.S. Marines has been arrested, the U.S. military...
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AP, Baghdad
The U.S. military on Friday postponed a ceremony to hand over Anbar province to Iraqi security control, citing forecasts of sandstorms. The announcement came a day...
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NATO allies have yet to come up with replacements for a key deployment of some 3,000 U.S. Marines due to leave Afghanistan later this year, alliance officials said...
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AP, Kabul
Afghan officials expressed outrage Saturday at a decision by the U.S. military not to charge U.S. Marines involved in a shooting spree that left 19 Afghan civilians...
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AP, Garmser
U.S. Marines who once planned to be in this southern Afghan town for just a few days are extending their mission by several weeks after facing an influx of Taliban...
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AP, Outside Garmser
U.S. Marines exchanged gunfire with militants Tuesday after pouring into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan in the first major American operation in the region...
made popular Apr 29 2008
AP, Outside Garmser
U.S. Marines are moving into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan in the first major American operation in the region in years.Several hundred Marines are...
made popular Apr 29 2008
AP, Helmand Province
U.S. Marines are crossing the sands of southern Afghanistan for the first time in years, providing a boost to a NATO coalition that is growing but still short on...
made popular Apr 26 2008
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