Topic: U.S. Armed Forces

AP News | 2010-03-15 12:16:13
Pre-dawn rocket attack kills 1 person at main US military base in Afghanistan

An early morning rocket attack on the largest U.S. military hub in Afghanistan killed one person Monday, NATO said. In the east, meanwhile, Afghan authorities thwarted three would-be suicide bombers from attacking a security post. The attack targeted the sprawling Bagram Air Field, north of the ...

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AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-14 13:10:21

An American soldier was killed and two wounded in a rocket or mortar attack on a US military base in central Iraq, a statement said on Sunday. The soldier, who was not named, was killed in an "indirect fire attack" on a base in Diyala province north of Baghdad, the American military said, using its term for a rocket or ...

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AP News | 2010-03-12 21:26:33
At least 936 US military deaths in Afghan region since 2001

As of Friday, March 12, 2010, at least 936 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is four more than the ...

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AP News | 2010-03-11 10:12:08
Rights complaints persist as US military frees Afghan detainees from Bagram to local leaders

The Pashtun tribal leaders picked at the chocolate cake and fruit laid out for them at the conference table. Politely, they listened to speeches touting a new program to release detainees from Afghanistan's largest U.S.-run military prison if community leaders vouch for them ...

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Where Terror Suspects Should be Tried

Miller-McCune | 2010-03-14 09:42:29

Blackwater very much in evidence in ‘Avatar’

Boston Globe | 2010-03-13 22:39:39

Obama renews backing of earthquake-stricken Haiti

Las Vegas Sun | 2010-03-13 14:25:15

VA Benefits for Children

eHow | 2010-03-13 00:55:08

The Trailer Giving 'Stock Film' a New Meaning

FishBowl LA | 2010-03-12 12:05:13

Sean Penn: Destroy the First Amendment

Dispatches from the Culture Wars | 2010-03-12 09:54:25

Open Thread for Night Owls: Afghanistan

Daily Kos | 2010-03-12 01:01:27

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