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US weapons failed in 2008 Afghanistan firefight

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — It was chaos during the early morning assault last year on a remote U.S. outpost in Afghanistan and Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 c...

Afghan War: 8th Anniversary Photo Retrospective

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.07.2009 | World


Wednesday marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. The notable date comes as the United States fiercely debates the future of...

Afghanistan War: 2 US Troops Killed By Roadside Bomb

AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 07.20.2009 | World


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan killed two U.S. troops Friday, the U.S. military said. The explosion occu...

3 US Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan After Obama Stresses Need To Fight Extremists

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 07.05.2009 | World


KABUL — Taliban militants detonated a bomb and opened fire on a vehicle carrying U.S. soldiers on Thursday, killing three of them, as President ...

Pentagon Telepathy Program Wants Soldiers To Communicate Through Neural Signals On Battlefield

Danger Room | Posted 06.14.2009 | World


Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs, or even those infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they're goin...

Bomb kills 4 US soldiers in Afghanistan's east

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 04.15.2009 | World


KABUL — A roadside bomb killed four American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday _ new evidence of rising violence in a region where clash...

Obama Nixed Full Surge After Quizzing Brass

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World


President Barack Obama decided to approve only 17,000 of the 30,000 troops requested by Gen. David McKiernan, the top commander of U.S. and NATO tro...

US Eyes "Surge" Of Over 20,000 Troops For Afghanistan

Reuters | David Morgan | Posted 12.23.2008 | Home


The Pentagon is considering a plan to send more than 20,000 troops to Afghanistan over the next 12 to 18 months to help safeguard elections and quell ...

Army: Psychiatrists Needed on Warfronts

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — U.S. troops on the battlefield found it harder to get the mental health care they needed last year, when violence rose in Afghanist...