U.S. hands over Anbar, Iraq's once-deadliest region

Bush's Unwinnable War

By: robertweller

  Bring Them Home Now Obama, Quit The What's new: Eleven U.S. troops and three American law-enforcement officials were killed in two separate helicopter crashes today, inflicting one of the war’s heaviest one-day losses on U.S. forces, military officials said. http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-4491971/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5sYX...

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Fourteen Americans Die in Afghan Chopper Crashes

By: AliceCullen

Helicopter crashes killed fourteen Americans on Monday — 11 troops and three drug agents — in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came just as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale conference on the future of the war. The ...

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US will not rush more troops to Afghanistan, says President Barack ...

By: ahadsarkar

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has said he would not rush into a decision over whether to send more US troops to Afghanistan.  "I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you in the harm's way. I won't risk your lives unless it's absolutely necessary," Obama told a gathering of some 3,500 military personnel at a ...

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8 U.S. Troops killed in Afghan on Sunday

By: BubbleBoy

  “Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight U.S. Soldiers, 2 Afghan security troops and capturing more than 20 Afghan troops in the deadliest assault against U.S. Forces in more than a year”, military officials said ...

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