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WASHINGTON (AP) — Official: 2 US troops among 6 killed when suicide bomber struck NATO convoy in Afghanistan. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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Official: 2 US troops among 6 killed when suicide bomber struck NATO convoy in Afghanistan
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2013
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No Comments »Obama says does not foresee sending U.S. troops to Syria
Posted by admin on May 4th, 2013
By Mark Felsenthal and Steve Holland SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Friday he does not foresee a scenario in which he would send U.S. ground troops to Syria and outlined a deliberate approach to determining whether the Syrian government had used chemical weapons in a 2-year civil war. Obama [...]
Obama doesn’t foresee ground troops in Syria
Posted by admin on May 4th, 2013
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — President Barack Obama says he doesn’t foresee sending U.S. ground troops into Syria. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Afghan troops hold their ground at high cost
Posted by admin on April 27th, 2013
FORWARD OPERATING BASE CONNOLLY, Afghanistan (AP) — The Americans could be spotted waiting for the Chinooks in the 2 a.m. darkness only by the shape of their night-vision goggles, as they shared a cigarette with glowing embers in quick drags among the kneeling assaulters in the chilled dark. Tweet This Post
Don’t let sequester ax scholarships for children of American troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
Posted by admin on March 19th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Afghanistan, American, Children, Don't, Iraq, Killed, scholarships, sequester, troops No Comments »As Afghan trip goes badly off script, cautious Hagel focuses on U.S. troops
Posted by admin on March 11th, 2013
By Phil Stewart KABUL (Reuters) – It was a harrowing international debut for Chuck Hagel, whose first trip to Afghanistan as U.S. defense secretary went dramatically off-script and challenged the American narrative about the 11-year-old war. His first full day in Afghanistan began with the sound of suicide bomb attack about a kilometer away from [...]
NATO says troops kill two Afghan boys due to mistaken identity
Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2013
KABUL (Reuters) – NATO forces accidentally shot dead two boys during an operation in Afghanistan’s south, the alliance said on Saturday, in the latest in a series of incidents involving allegations of civilian deaths at the hands of international troops. The shooting in the southern province of Uruzgan could further strain the relationship between the [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Afghan, Boys, identity, kill, Mistaken, NATO, says, troops No Comments »US troops in Niger to set up drone base
Posted by admin on February 23rd, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation of Niger, where a U.S. defense official said they would be setting up a drone base for surveillance missions. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
US troops in Niger to set up drone base
Posted by admin on February 23rd, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation of Niger, where a U.S. defense official said they would be setting up a drone base for surveillance missions. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
US troops around the world
Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2013
The latest Pentagon numbers on troop strength around the world, as of Sept. 30, 2012, indicate that about there are 1.4 million U.S. troops on active duty worldwide, mostly based in the U.S. President Barack Obama also announced Friday the deployment of 100 troops in the African nation Niger, which borders war-torn Mali. There are [...]
