Deadliest year for troops in Afghanistan
By Sardar Ahmad (AFP) KABUL — A roadside bomb blast killed four US soldiers in Afghanistan on Tuesday, making 2009 the deadliest year recorded for foreign troops in the country since the US-led invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001.The grim milestone was likely to further fuel political debate in Washington, ...
Two soldiers killed on foot patrol, taking Afghan death toll to 206
• One of the casualties was sent as a reinforcement • Bodies of four others returned to the UK By Jo Adetunji and Sam Jones / Guardian Two British soldiers were killed in an explosion in north Helmand, Afghanistan, on Thursday morning as people voted in the country's presidential election, ...
Soldier From Concord Killed In Afghanistan
US Army Infantryman Killed Thursday WMUR 9 CONCORD, N.H. -- Army Spc. Justin Pellerin, 21, of Concord, was killed in Afghanistan Thursday while serving with his unit. The soldier is reported to be 21-year-old Justin Pellerin, a U.S. Army infantryman. Pellerin was a member of a unit based out of ...
West Michigan welcomes home Middleville soldier killed in Afghanistan
By Nate Reens / Grand Rapids Press A weeping Donna Roush welcomed her middle son, U.S. Army Cpl. Nick Roush, home Friday, meeting his flag-draped casket, bending over and embracing it. Supported by family members, the proud mother of a fallen soldier stepped away as a U.S. Army Reserve National ...
Support for Afghan war drops, CNN poll finds
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new national poll indicates that support among Americans for the war in Afghanistan has hit a new low. Forty-one percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday say they favor the war in Afghanistan -- down 9 points from May, when CNN ...
Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not! ...by Juan Cole
TomDispatchWHAT, what, what, What's the news from Swat? Sad news, Bad news, Comes by the cable led Through the Indian Ocean's bed, Through the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Med- Iterranean -- he 's dead; The Ahkoond is dead! -- George Thomas Lanigan Despite being among the poorest ...
Casualties of War, Part I: The hell of war comes home
By Dave Phillips / Colorado Springs GazetteBefore the murders started, Anthony Marquez’s mom dialed his sergeant at Fort Carson to warn that her son was poised to kill. It was February 2006, and the 21-year-old soldier had not been the same since being wounded and coming home from Iraq eight ...
Four U.S. soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
The incident in the country's dangerous eastern region bordering Pakistan pushes the American death toll in July to 30.By Laura King / Los Angeles Times Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb killed four American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan today, adding to the toll in what has already been ...
Fallen soldier's body returns home
By Barrett J. Brunsman / Cincinnati EnquirerBATAVIA TWP. - A large crowd that included hundreds of children stood in front of Amelia High School on Wednesday night to salute Army Spc. Gregory James Missman, the first Clermont County resident to die while serving in Afghanistan."I have the utmost respect for ...
Local soldier killed in Afghanistan
By Barrett J. Brunsman / Cincinnati EnquirerUNION TWP. – A Clermont County solider has died of wounds suffered in Afghanistan. Word was received this morning that Gregory James Missman died from injuries suffered from an improvised explosive device, said Keith Maupin of the Yellow Ribbon Support Center here. A 1993 ...
Two Georgia Guardsmen Killed in Afghanistan
By Tuquyen Mach / WSAVDefense officials say two Georgia soldiers were killed in action while serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan Tuesday. According to the Department of Defense, Sgt. Brock Henry Chavers Sr., 25, of Statesboro, and Spc. Isaac Lee Johnson Jr., 24, of Columbus, died from injuries from ...
Hempstead Native Among 4 Soldiers Killed in Iraq
By Kevin Maurer WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Four North Carolina National Guard soldiers, including one with roots on Long Island, were killed in Baghdad on the last day of regular combat operations for U.S. forces in Iraqi cities, the military said Thursday. It was the North Carolina National Guard's largest ...
Marines Seek to Cut Afghan Insurgent Supply Lines
US Marines push deeper into southern Afghan towns, seeking to cut insurgent supply linesBy Jason Straziuso and Chris Brummitt / Associated Press NAWA, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines pushed deeper into Taliban areas of southern Afghanistan on Friday, seeking to cut insurgent supply lines and win over local elders on the ...
Foreign soldiers among dozens killed in Afghanistan: officials
KABUL (AFP) — Four foreign soldiers were killed and dozens of Afghans, mostly Taliban militants, have been killed in two days of violence across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, authorities said Saturday. One soldier serving with the US-led coalition was killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday. "A coalition service ...
2 Illinois guardsmen killed in Afghanistan
Families, communities remember soldiers from Downstate Illinois By Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune Two Illinois National Guard soldiers were killed Friday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, adding to a death toll on pace to make June one of the deadliest months for U.S.-led forces since the war began. Staff ...
2 US-Allied Soldiers, 25 Taliban Killed In Afghanistan
KABUL (AFP) -- Two U.S.-led coalition soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Friday when a bomb struck their convoy, as authorities said at least 25 militants and a policeman died in various military operations. The bomb struck the soldiers on the outskirts of Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, the U.S. ...
Salem soldier, 23, dies in Iraq blast
By James A. Kimble / Eagle TribuneSALEM – A 23-year-old local soldier, who worked as an explosives expert, was killed in Iraq over the weekend while trying to disarm a roadside bomb. Staff Sgt. Edmond Lo, a 2004 graduate of Salem High School, was on his second tour of duty ...
Canadian soldier killed defusing bomb in southern Afghanistan
CBC A Canadian soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan on Sunday when an improvised explosive device he was trying to defuse exploded, the military said. Cpl. Martin Dubé, 35, was a combat engineer from the 5 Combat Engineer Regiment based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, near Quebec City. An Afghan ...
Soldier killed on duty in Afghanistan
By Lisa Fogarty / Queens ChronicleArmy Spc. Roberto Hernandez II, 21, of Far Rockaway was killed on June 2 while serving in Afghanistan, military officials said. Hernandez died in the province of Paktya of wounds sustained when his mounted patrol was attacked with an improvised explosive device and small arms ...
Communities grieve for dead guardsmen
Associated Press ATLANTA — Three Georgia communities are grieving after three members of a Georgia National Guard unit deployed less than a month ago died in an attack in Afghanistan this week. The Pentagon identified the men as Maj. Kevin M. Jenrette, 37, of Lula; Staff Sgt. John C. Beale, ...
3 members of 48th die in Afghanistan
Macon.com Three members of the Georgia National Guard's 48th Brigade were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, the Army announced. All three were members of the 1st Battalion, 108th Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron, operating out of Calhoun. Maj. Kevin M. Jenrette, 37, of Lula, Staff Sgt. John C. Beale, ...
Four US soldiers among 28 killed in Afghan unrest
KABUL (AFP) — A surge in militant-linked unrest across Afghanistan left 28 people dead including four US soldiers killed in bomb strikes near the capital, officials said Monday. Violence has picked up across the war-scarred country in recent weeks with Afghan and international troops launching operations to clear out insurgents ...
3 GIs among 25 killed in 3 attacks in Iraq
By Liz Sly and Usama Redha / Los Angeles Times Three American soldiers on foot patrol were among 25 people killed in Iraq Thursday in an upsurge of violence that brought to 60 the number killed over a 24-hour period, the U.S. military and Iraqi police said. The Americans were ...
33 Iraqis, 1 U.S. Troop Killed In Violence
String Of Bomb Attacks In Baghdad Wounds More Than 90; 1st Troop Death Reported In About 3 Weeks (CBS/AP) A string of deadly bombings in Baghdad killed 33 people and wounded more than 90 others, as the U.S. military also reported its first combat death in Iraq in about three ...
After 18-year ban, media see return of war dead
Photographers get OK from family to attend solemn ceremony at base Associated Press DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware - The Pentagon's 18-year ban on media covering the return of fallen U.S. service members ended with a solemn ceremony for the arrival of a flag-draped casket of an airman felled in ...
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