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The United States Wednesday rejected claims it is supplying arms to Syrian rebels and accused Moscow of shipping attack helicopters to the Assad regime.
The Taliban's momentum has not only been prevented from going forward, it's been put in reverse, a senior Pentagon spokesman said Monday.
Military courses on Islam are being reviewed after a student reported a slide that says the United States is at "war" with the religion, officials say.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Wednesday condemned the behavior of soldiers photographed posing with corpses of suicide bombers in Afghanistan in 2010.
A deal between the United States and Afghanistan on special operations formalizes a process started late last year, a U.S. Defense Department official said.
Gen. John Allen has ordered NATO and U.S. soldiers to take new precautions against attacks by members of the Afghan security forces, a senior official says.
Panetta: I wasn't the target
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he doesn't believe he was the target in an attack by an Afghan man as Panetta's plane landed in southern Afghanistan.
The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians was spirited out of Afghanistan Wednesday to an undisclosed location, a Pentagon spokesman said.
U.S. to press ahead with Afghan leaders
The attack by a U.S. soldier in which 16 Afghan citizens died won't affect the withdrawal plans for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the White House said.
Pentagon: No strategy shift in Afghanistan
The violent reaction to the accidental burning of Korans by foreign troops will not change NATO's strategy in Afghanistan, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.
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Flags-In Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
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Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch