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NAWA, Afghanistan – Thousands of U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan troops poured into Taliban-infested villages of southern Afghanistan with armor and helicopters Thursday...
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- News Source: Al Jazeera | 5 months agoAt least two Nato soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb that exploded in southern Afghanistan, Nato officials say. The officials were not able to identify the dead troops or the exact location of the blast on Saturday. British military...
- News Source: Salem News | 5 months agoMarines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade accompanied by around 650 Afghan soldiers, are part of Operation Khanjar, staged on the Helmand River. Wikipedia reports that this is the biggest push since the Pentagon began moving additional troops...
- News Source: United Press International | 5 months agoBritish troops moving into Afghanistan's restive Helmand province say they're encountering little resistance from Taliban insurgents. A major operation in the province -- considered to be a Taliban stronghold -- is seeing more than 700 British troops...
- News Source: Press TV | 5 months agoThe US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Taliban and seek out al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Nearly eight years after the US-led invasion of the country by coalition forces, Afghanistan is...
- News Source: BBC South Asia | 5 months agoThey are two separate offensives, but they are also closely co-ordinated and inextricably linked. They are part of the most ambitious combat campaign in Helmand since British troops were first deployed to this southern province four summers ago.
- News Source: Hindustan times | 5 months agoAfghanistan's insurgent Taliban said on Friday it had not started directly fighting against Britain and US operations under way in Helmand province but was using guerrilla tactics. About 4,000 US Marines were inserted into Taliban strongholds in the...
- News Source: NewKerala | 5 months agoOne marine infantryman was killed and several others were wounded Thursday in fighting on the first day of the operation in Helmand province, the US military said. It gave no reports of Taliban casualties in Operation Khanjar, in which the US is...
- News Source: The Guardian | 5 months agoBritish troops seize canal crossings in Taliban heartland Push is part of US-led Sword Strike operation to oust insurgents from Helmand British troops have seized crucial canal crossings in the Taliban heartland as part of the US-led Operation Sword...
- News Source: Press TV | 5 months agoThe 2/8 Infantry Battalion is "in a hell of a fight going on in the southern quarter of the sector," Brigadier General Larry Nicholson said at the town Garmsir, located along the Helmand River. On Thursday, nearly 4,000 Marines launched the anti-...
- News Source: ITN | 5 months agoHundreds of British troops have seized key canal crossings in a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. The push is one of the largest made by the UK's overstretched troops in the Taliban heartland of Helmand. Hundreds of British soldiers have...
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