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A Midwood Army veteran is finally coming home Wednesday after a long battle to recover from massive injuries suffered in an explosion in Iraq - and get the military to grant him a discharge.
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Reuters - U.S. forces will cede the lead role in combat operations in Afghanistan next year, but will keep fighting alongside Afghan troops, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday, as the Obama administration struggled to clear up confusion over its Afghan exit strategy.
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Death in RAF helicopter and secret prison camp in Iraq desert raises questions about legality of British and US operationsOn the evening of 11 April 2003, a pair of RAF CH47 Chinook helicopters swept over Iraq's western desert towards a remote rendezvous point beside Route 10,...(more)
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An Army colonel has written a scathing report saying senior officers in the Pentagon have issued exaggerated reports of progress in the war in Afghanistan.
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A 49-year-old brigadier general died Friday in Afghanistan of apparent natural causes, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. soldier to die there, the military said Saturday.
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AP - An American soldier shot and killed an Afghan guard at a base in the country's north, apparently because the American thought the guard was about to attack him, Afghan police said Sunday.
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Reuters - The United States intends to end combat operations in Afghanistan before the end of 2013, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday, laying down a new marker for winding down America's longest war.