Franklin Lakes Oakland Suburban News
| 8 months ago
Afghans have raised questions about how well the military strategy is working...Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced on Friday the troops had come out, declaring the surge had accomplished its mission. Afghan troops can patrol together, Panetta...
National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
As Defense Secretary Leon Panetta notes that the last of the 33,000 so-called surge troops who were added to the U.S. force in Afghanistan last year have now left the country , there's this interesting news: In Andar, Afgahnistan, local Pashtuns have...
International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
More than a week ahead of schedule, the American military says it has completed what it called the recovery, meaning withdrawal, of the 33,000 surge troops it had sent to Afghanistan by the fall of 2010. The milestone, which still leaves 68,000...
US Dept of Defense
| 8 months ago
New Zealand, Sept. 21, 2012 The drawdown of U.S. surge forces in Afghanistan is complete as scheduled, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced here today during a news conference with New Zealand Defense Minister Dr. Jonathan Coleman. Panetta...
United Press International
| 8 months ago
The last of 33,000 U.S. soldiers sent to Afghanistan in a troop surge to battle the Taliban insurgency have been withdrawn, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. "As we reflect on this moment, it is an opportunity to recognize that the surge...
DAWN
| 8 months ago
The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that President Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge have left the country, US defence officials said Thursday. The withdrawal, which began in July, follows an...
