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War and peace (BBC News)
Ahmed Rashid on Helmand assault and Taliban arrests
Comfort Sails Against Doctors' Advice
Ex-Spy Chief: US Misleading on Detainees
Taliban Claim Suicide Attack on US Base
Some Troops May Leave Afghanistan Early
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal. Without giving specifics, Gates said, "It would have to be con...
VA to Automate Agent Orange Payments
Fight For Kandahar Won't Be Like Marjah
A different kind of career day (Pikes Peak Courier View)
This year?s annual Woodland Park High School career fair was not the typical walkfrom-table-to-table-picking-up-brochures-and-asking-questions kind of career fair. In fact it wasn?t even called ?Career Day.?
Afghanistan war: Fight for Kandahar won't be like fight for Marjah (The Chris...
In the next stage in the Afghanistan war, coalition forces are expected to build up gradually on the outskirts of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, perhaps for months. That strategy departs from the one executed in the Marjah offensive, in which troops entered quickly.
Afghanistan war: Fight for Kandahar won't be like fight for Marjah (The Chris...
The operation that American and coalition forces are planning for Kandahar in southern Afghanistan won?t look like D-Day, the top commander there said Tuesday.