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Pay Hike Boosts Afghan Army Recruits

2009-12-10

Sailor Commits to Navy, Gal at Same Time

2009-12-10

Obama to Note Irony of Peace Prize in Wartime

2009-12-09

President Barack Obama will accept the world's best-known peace award by explaining what it means to wage war, an incongruity that has weighed on him and that he will take on directly when he receives the Nobel Peace Prize, White House officials say.

Stop-loss Pay Starts Flowing This Month

2009-12-09

AF Confirms 'Beast of Kandahar'

2009-12-09

MoH Recipient can Keep Flagpole

2009-12-09

Troops Combat Taliban's Weapon of Choice

2009-12-06

As armored vehicles improve, killing Soldiers with roadside bombs becomes increasingly difficult. If the insurgents can disable a vehicle, they can force U.S. troops out of the protective vehicles to investigate, exposing them to secondary bombs -- increasingly a weapon of choice.

Marines Open Fire to Retake Helmand

2009-12-05

Marines backed by Afghan forces have launched the opening salvo in an operation designed to dislodge the Taliban from central and northern Helmand province. More than 900 US Marines, Sailors and British troops, backed by 150 Afghan soldiers and police, have launched operation Cobra's Anger.

Marines Launch Major Afghan Offensive

2009-12-04

U.S. Marines and Afghan troops Friday launched the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said.

Obama Wants Afghan Exit Strategy

2009-11-30