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Tag Archives: Pakistan
Chairman calls strategy year’s greatest challenge
Executing the president’s strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan presents his biggest challenge, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a CNN reporter Jan. 10. However, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said he sees progress being made in both countries. … Continue reading
Family pleads for soldier’s release
KABUL — The Taliban released a video Friday of an American soldier captured in Afghanistan, showing him apparently healthy but spouting criticism about the U.S. military operation.In Idaho, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl’s family pleaded on Christmas Day for his release and … Continue reading
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Tagged ABU, Afghanistan, Alaska, Col. Wayne Shanks, eastern Afghanistan, Fort Richardson, Geneva, Guantanamo Bay, Idaho, international security assistance, Kabul, Kandahar, Lt. Col. Tim Marsano, Pakistan, Paktika, Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, Sun Valley, U.S., video, Vietnam
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No time for Christmas for GIs in Afghan east
PECH RIVER VALLEY, Afghanistan — For Staff Sgt. Byron Krepcho, it doesn’t feel like Christmas.Instead of celebrating Christmas Eve with his family back in Dallas, Texas, Krepcho’s unit on Thursday fired mortars at enemy positions from Command Post Michigan in … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Charlotte, Christmas, Dallas, eastern Afghanistan, gulbuddin hekmatyar, Iraq, Michigan, North Carlina, Pakistan, Pech River, Sgt. Byron Krepcho, Sgt. David Nix, Texas, U.S.
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Pentagon: Insurgents intercepted UAV videos
WASHINGTON — Insurgents in Iraq have hacked into live video feeds from Predator drones, a major weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the military’s eyes in the sky for surveillance and intelligence collection.Although militants could see the … Continue reading
Pentagon: Insurgents intercepted UAV videos
WASHINGTON — Insurgents in Iraq have hacked into live video feeds from Predator drones, a major weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the military’s eyes in the sky for surveillance and intelligence collection.Although militants could see the … Continue reading
CMC outlines next objectives in Afghanistan
The Corps’ top officer said Marines in Afghanistan hope to win the support of the Afghan people by stopping a “murder-intimidation campaign” in Marja, a town in Helmand province where many Taliban fighters and drug smugglers fled they were routed … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st battalion 5th marines, Afghanistan, area, Gen. James Conway, Helmand, Iraq, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, Marja, Pakistan, U.S.
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Mullen remains concerned about militant threat
KABUL — America’s top military officer expressed concern Monday about the “growing level of collusion” between Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and al-Qaida and other militant groups taking refuge across the border in Pakistan.Adm. Mike Mullen, in Kabul to discuss the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adm. Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, America, Camp Lejeune, Fort Campbell, Islamabad, Kabul, Ky., Lashkar, Mohammad Hanif, N.C., North Waziristan, northern Baghlan, Pakistan, Qaida, South Waziristan, southern Afghanistan, U.S., Washington
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Joint Chiefs chairman: Al-Qaida remains dangerous
Al-Qaida remains a danger, and the area along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan is the epicenter of global Islamic extremism, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said at the Foreign Press Center here Dec. 8. Navy Adm. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adm. Mike Mullen, Admiral Mullen, Afghanistan, Al, Al-Qaida, Gen. Stanley A, General McChrystal, Pakistan, U.S.
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Obama: 30,000 to Afghanistan by summer
Declaring “our security is at stake,” President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Afghanistan on Tuesday night, nearly tripling the force he inherited but promising an impatient public to begin withdrawal in 18 … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Europe, Iraq, Kabul, Obama, Pakistan, Read, Sen. John McCain, Stanley McChrystal, U.S., U.S. Military, United States, violent extremism
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