Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan
Lance Cpl. Daniel Franke, a dog handler attached to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, lays in the prone on an overlooking hill with his dog in Towrah Ghundey, Afghanistan on June 11, 2010. UPI/Daniel Blatter/U.S. Marines
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Added September 16, 2011 with 9 photos
U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Dakota Meyer, a former active duty Marine Corps Corporal, the Medal of Honor for his actions in battle in Afghanistan during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2011. Meyer was wounded as he made five trips to and from a battle zone to save 36 lives and bring back the bodies of four men.
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Added February 23, 2010 with 82 photos
Afghan and coalition forces Wednesday ended Kabul's day-long insurgency, killing the remaining militants who attacked the U.S. Embassy and NATO. U.S. assistance to the Afghan army and police will be cut by more than half before the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops in 2014, the Pentagon said.
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Added August 31, 2011 with 10 photos
The Commission on Wartime Contracting, set up by the U.S. Senate in 2007, released their report on fraud in defense contracting titled, "Transforming Wartime Contracting". The commission found the U.S. government wasted more than $30 billion in contracts and grants awarded to private contracts working in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past 10 years.
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Added June 23, 2011 with 8 photos
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a televised address on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2011.
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Added May 03, 2011 with 12 photos
After years of searching with the assumption that bin Laden was on the run in the barren mountains along Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Special Forces found him in a million dollar compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he had allegedly been staying comfortably for months.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Islamabad should pursue all natural gas options available through pipelines because other alternatives are too costly, a former official said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The White House may miss a historic chance for Afghan peace by delaying a prisoner release after a Taliban offer to open talks, Western Afghan specialists say.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Bloodshed was reported across Afghanistan Wednesday, with Afghan and NATO forces battling insurgents, officials said.
LONDON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A former U.N. envoy to Afghanistan says the Taliban's offer to open talks with the international community could mean a cease-fire in 2012.
TEHRAN, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A non-profit company in Iran said it plans to send U.S. President Barack Obama miniature toy drones as a gift.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- “Ready, aim, fire” not “ready, fire, aim” is the order of the day!
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Pakistani tribesmen, upset with what they see as government inaction, fired at suspected U.S. drones flying over their areas, witnesses told the newspaper Dawn.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Special Envoy Marc Grossman's visit to Pakistan has been put off at Islamabad's request, a State Department spokesman said.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistani reporter Mukarram Khan Aatif, who worked for the Voice of America, was shot and killed in a mosque in northwest Pakistan, VOA reported.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A tribal elder and a senior Taliban official were killed in separate incidents of violence in Afghanistan, officials said.
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