UPI POY 2008 - News and Features
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (C) shakes hands with a reporter while walking with Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell (R) as they visit Camp Victory in the green zone of Baghdad, Iraq on September 16, 2008. Secretary Gates is in southwest Asia to meet with Iraqi and Afgan leaders and to preside over the changing of the Commanding General of Multi-National Force Iraq ceremony. (UPI Photo/Jerry Morrison)
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department expects tough challenges in Afghanistan as it struggles to address the threats from improvised explosives devices, officials said.
TEHRAN, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The Pentagon has acknowledged that it is speeding up plans to deploy a massive bomb capable of knocking out deeply buried enemy facilities.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Revisions in the war strategy for Afghanistan must focus on changing troop behavior and relationships with the people on the ground, a Pentagon spokesman said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The first set of more than 6,000 mine-resistant, ambush-protected all-terrain vehicles shipped to the battlefield in Afghanistan to support U.S. troops.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama and high-level advisers met at the White House Wednesday on Afghanistan but the White House said no major decisions were made.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said "a whole-of-governments approach" is needed in the fight against terrorism around the world.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates should receive a troop request for Afghanistan by the end of the week, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- The United States is once again training Georgian troops for combat participation in counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, younger sister of President John Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, died Tuesday in a Cape Cod, Mass., hospital.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Because the U.S. Senate adjourned without confirming his successor, Peter Geren will be the Army secretary until he is formally replaced, the Pentagon said.
