R.I.P. - CWO Hornsby, CWO Krause, PO1 Carson, PO1 Feeks, SGT Essex, SGT Galbreath, PO2 Warsen

DOD Identifies Seven Army and Navy Casualties in a Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan ---   DOD Identifies Army and Navy Casualties             The Department of Defense announced today the death of seven service members who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.            ...

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R.I.P. - Hospital Corpsman Petty Officer 1st Class Darrel L. Enos

DOD Identifies Marine and Navy Casualties             The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two service members who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             They died Aug. 17 while supporting combat operations in Farah province,...

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R.I.P. - Staff Sgt. Gregory T. Copes

DOD Identifies Marine and Navy Casualties             The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two service members who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             They died Aug. 17 while supporting combat operations in Farah province,...

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Aug. 21., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation in Watahpur district, Kunar province, yesterday. During the operation, the security force conducted a precision airstrike against a group of insurgents. The strike killed several insurgents including Mutaqi, an al-Qaida associated Taliban leader in the province. Mutaqi, also known as...

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Aug. 21., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Aug. 21, 2012) - Afghan and coalition forces killed four insurgents and cleared an improvised explosive device during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Aug. 20. Kunar province Afghan National Army soldiers and coalition forces killed an insurgent during an engagement in Nari district. Wardak province Afghan National...

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Car bomb kills 9, injures 68 in SE Turkey

Districts of Gaziantep (Photo credit: Wikipedia) ANKARA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- The car bomb hit a police station late Monday in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province has killed nine and wounded 68 others, local Hurriyet Daily News reported Tuesday. Unknown militants remotely detonated the explosives laden in a car on Monday evening after parking the car at a bus stop...

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Nigeria: Gunmen Attack Primary School, Police Station

Despite the repeated entreaties by religious leaders for a peaceful Sallah celebration, suspected gunmen Monday attacked Damagum Central Primary School, as well as a police station in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital. Eyewitnesses recalled that the town's police station, which had been previously razed by the sect, was again torched by members of the group Monday. The...

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US military chief's plane hit by rockets

Militants have fired rockets into an American base in Afghanistan, damaging the US joint chief of staff's plane while he was on a visit, a military official said today. The American military chief was not near the aircraft at the time of the attack and no-one was injured. NATO spokesman Jamie Graybeal said the attack at Bagram Air Field outside Kabul last night did not...

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