US Marines in Afghanistan
Nearly 4000 US Marines supported with heavy artillery and helicopter gunships entered the heartland of Afghanistan to neutralize the threats of Taliban before the forthcoming elections. These marines are a part of the 22,000 strong contingent of US Marines dispatched by Barack Obama to Afghanistan. There were 400 Afghan troops also in the group. A curious case of a missing soldier, supposed to have been kidnapped, was reported in the skirmish – while the US side said that the soldier was not on duty when he went missing, the Taliban side said that he was discovered drunk outside his base!
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- News Source: National Public Radio | 4 months agoWeekend Edition Sunday , July 5, 2009 · In Afghanistan, there are continued skirmishes between U.S. Marines and Taliban fighters in some areas of the Helmand province. Marines are setting up small outposts throughout the area, and are starting the...
- News Source: Voice of America | 4 months agoMarines have suffered their first casualties of a new major offensive in Taliban-controlled parts of southern Afghanistan. The U.S. military says one Marine was killed and several others wounded as they were taking up positions in Taliban strongholds...
- News Source: Voice of America | 4 months agoPresident Barack Obama is still struggling with what to do with the most dangerous terror detainees at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The president addressed this and other issues in a wide-ranging interview with a domestic wire service. The new...
- News Source: Financial Times | 4 months agoThe decision to move into parts of Helmand province where the British have been unable to venture – clearing out the Taliban from their sanctuaries – is one fraught with risk. But it marks a recognition by the Obama administration, and by Nato...
- Blog Source: blog.taragana.comPresident Barack Obama told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that he has a “very narrow definition of success when it comes to our national security interests” in the region. “And that is that al-Qaida and its affiliates ... A
- Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.comThousands of US Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country.
- Blog Source: fontanablog.blogspot.comAfghan insurgents have captured an American soldier, the US military said today, as American marines and Afghan troops poured into southern Afghanistan in the first major test of Barack Obama's strategy to wrest the initiative from the ... A roadside
- Blog Source: blog.taragana.comJuly 2nd, 2009 US Marines launch major offensive in AfghanistanNAWA, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first ...
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Video Source: youtube.comAfghanistan New Taliban leader ...Video Source: youtube.comWASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban's new top operations officer in ... - Video Source: youtube.comSuicide bombers attack Afghan ...Video Source: youtube.comA group of suicide bombers attack a government building in eastern ...
- Video Source: youtube.comU.S. targets terror safe ...Video Source: youtube.comHarmid Karzai watched the speech on CNN from Kabul, said Richard ...
- Video Source: youtube.comBarack Obama (The Victory OF ...Video Source: youtube.comThe rise of Islam's flag over white house. Barack Obama Elected as ...
- Video Source: youtube.comObama's war Afghanistan's ...Video Source: youtube.com... American President barack obama karachi islamabad kandahar helmand ...
- Video Source: youtube.com70 dead in Pakistan mosque ...Video Source: youtube.comA devastating suicide blast struck a mosque in the strife-torn tribal ...
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