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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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Marines to be first wave in Afghanistan plan

WASHINGTON — New infusions of Marines will begin moving into Afghanistan almost as soon as President Barack Obama announces a redrawn battle strategy, a plan widely expected to include more than 30,000 additional U.S. forces.Obama will try to sell a … Continue reading

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