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News Source: Japan Today
| 4 months ago
Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops on Monday, the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year—and a sign that the war being fought in the Taliban heartland of the south and east could now be expanding north. Separately,...
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News Source: South Bend Tribune
| 4 months ago
Donnelly visits troops, Karzai in Mideast Says we must help Afghans build up their own army for stability...Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-2nd, spent last week in the Mideast, including a chat with Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai. “He said the most...
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News Source: Xtra News
| 4 months ago
The US military on Monday used the social networking site Facebook to announce new tactics for its forces in Afghanistan , long before it issued the news through a standard press release. The announcement of new guidance for troops in Afghanistan...
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News Source: CNN
| 4 months ago
As Marines mount a new U.S. push to force Taliban fighters from a stronghold in southern Afghanistan, a new military strategy is taking root. That strategy might best be described as: After taking a town from the enemy, hold that town...The strategy...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 4 months ago
It rankles the small mind,' he told the Daily Telegraph in an interview published Monday. 'It does not rankle the army, because after India and Pakistan became nuclear powers, that position of being able to take over another state is nullified.'...
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News Source: Truthout
| 4 months ago
Marines continued with their massive anti-Taliban offensive in the south, the biggest U.S. military operation since the ouster of the Taliban from power in 2001. American troops recently received new guidelines limiting use of airstrikes in...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 4 months ago
The U.S. military made public new guidelines Monday for its troops in Afghanistan, battlefield rules that seek to protect Afghan civilians and greatly reduce the number of civilian casualties in an increasingly deadly war...Such deaths alienate...
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News Source: South Africa News
| 4 months ago
Afghanistan on Monday, killing two Afghans, as US Marines pushed on with an assault against Taliban strongholds in the south. The Taliban militia claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in southern Kandahar province and said its fighters had...
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News Source: USA Today
| 4 months ago
The success of the Marine-led offensive in southern Afghanistan , the first large-scale effort in the Pentagon's new strategy to make Afghans feel safe from the Taliban, hinges on the ability of the nation's army and police to provide security, U.S.
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 4 months ago
The much-awaited military crackdown against Taliban-held territory, kicked off Thursday, has been pushing deeper into militants' heartland with the involvement of nearly 5,000 Afghan troops and U.S. Marines. In the latest development, Afghan...