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Offensive is first test for Obama's Afghanistan strategy
The US military offensive launched in Afghanistan's south this week is the first step in President Barack Obama's new strategy in a war he has described as a key priority for his administra...
AFP via Yahoo! News, Sat Jul 04 08:56:56 PDT 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News]
2 US troops die in attack on base in Afghanistan
Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two American troops in a fierce battle as thousands of Marines in the south continued ...
AP via Yahoo! News, Sat Jul 04 09:52:11 PDT 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News]
Taliban war pushes tanks into storage
British tanks have been parked up for the next three years to save money and allow their crews to be deployed to Afghanistan to drive a new range of armoured vehicles.
Top stories from Times Online, Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:47:41 GMT [Found on Topix News]
US Marine commander out shopping in Afghanistan
Brigadier General Larry Nicholson demonstrated the more open approach he wants to see among the new US troops sent to southern Afghanistan by going shopping for melons.
AFP via Yahoo! News, Sat Jul 04 08:56:05 PDT 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News]
Soldier who fought in pink boxers home for 4th
... the Taliban in his boxer shorts says he's glad to be back home in Texas after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan a ' especially on the Fourth of July. Specialist Zachary Boyd says ...
KIDK-TV Idaho Falls, Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:47:24 GMT [Found on Topix News]
2 U.S. troops die in attack on base in Afghanistan
Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two American troops and wounding several more in a two-hour battle, official...
USA Today, Sat Jul 04 05:19:13 PDT 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News]
Two U.S. soldiers killed in complex Afghan attack
Two U.S. soldiers were killed when their base in southeast Afghanistan came under attack on Saturday, the U.S. military said, two days after a major operation against the Taliban was launch...
Beaverton Valley Times, Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:46:54 GMT [Found on Topix News]
Marines March in Scorching Afghanistan Sun July 4
Taliban militants were nowhere in sight as the columns of U.S. Marines walked a third straight day across southern Afghanistan.
Fox News, Sat Jul 04 13:07:33 PDT 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News]
Iraq declines offer of U.S. help with reconciliation
... has not made enough political progress to prevent more fighting. But as the United States turns its attention to Afghanistan and moves ahead with a plan to end the unpopular Iraq war, ...
BeavertonValleyTimes, Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:46:48 GMT [Found on Topix News]
Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan fighting
Two US soldiers and up to 32 militants died in fighting in eastern Afghanistan, as Marines battling in the south pressed one of their biggest assaults of the eight-year war.
AFP via Yahoo! News, Sat Jul 04 01:03:15 PDT 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News]