R.I.P. - Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas D. Checque

DOD Identifies Navy Casualty             The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas D. Checque, 28, of Monroeville, Pa., died of combat related injuries...

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Six year old boy’s final Christmas Wish

i know this in not a military related thing, but i hope readers can help from armywtfmoments by _T | December 8, 2012  Nathan is a 6 year old who has struggled with terminal cancer for the  last three years. As an adult I could not imaging going through such a struggle, going through it as a child is unthinkable. After going through numerous surgeries...

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In Several Joint Clearance Operations, 11 Armed Taliban Killed (10.Dec.2012.)

Publish Date: Dec 10, 2012 In Several Joint Clearance Operations, 11 Armed Taliban Killed Counterterrorism: During the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces launched nine joint clearance operations in Nangarhar, Laghman, Faryab, Sar-e-Pul, Balkh, Kandahar, Logar, Ghazni and Helmand...

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Dec. 10., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Haqqani leader during an operation in Sayyid Karam district, Paktiya province, yesterday. The arrested leader controlled a group of insurgents that conducts improvised explosive device attacks against Afghan officials and Afghan and coalition forces. He also constructed, stored and transported IEDs...

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Dec. 10., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan and coalition forces killed three insurgents, detained two, located five weapons caches and cleared four improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Dec. 9. Ghazni province Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces discovered a weapons cache in Waghaz district. The cache...

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Senior woman official shot dead in Afghanistan

Districts of Laghman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Najia Siddiqi, a senior official, was shot dead Monday in Afghanistan's Laghman province, the authorities said.Siddiqi was the acting director of Provincial Women's Affairs. She was killed in a drive-by shooting in provincial capital Mehtarlam city in eastern Laghman province Monday morning, a spokesman for the provincial...

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Pakistani Soldier dies while defusing bomb in Bara

Map showing the districts of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) FATA and the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) LANDI KOTAL, Dec 9: A security man was killed and his colleague received injuries when they tried to defuse a bomb in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Sunday.Officials said that soldier Hashim Khan and his colleague...

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7 Taliban killed as troops rescue US doctor in Afghanistan

KABUL -- U.S. soldiers killed seven Taliban insurgents in a successful pre-dawn raid to rescue a kidnapped American doctor in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the NATO force in the war-torn country said.The mission was launched when intelligence showed that Dr. Dilip Joseph was in “imminent danger of injury or death,” NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said...

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Nimroz police chief killed in blast

ZARANJ (PAN): The police chief of southeastern Nimroz province was killed in a roadside bombing in neighbouring Herat province on Monday, an official said.The incident took place at 8am when the vehicle carrying Col. Mohammad Musa Rasuli struck a roadside bomb in the Adarskan district of Herat, said the deputy police chief of Nimroz.Maj. Rahmatullah told Pajhwok Afghan News...

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Eight killed as Taliban suicide bombers attack Pakistan police station

(Reuters) - Four Taliban suicide bombers attacked a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least eight police and local residents, security officials said. The Pakistan Taliban took responsibility for the attack near Bannu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, close to the border with Afghanistan, a hotbed of insurgency where attacks on security forces are common. "Three...

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Al-Qaida bombs Yemen's LNG export pipeline

map by Evan Centanni (www.polgeonow.com) SANAA, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Al-Qaida militants on Sunday blew up a pipeline that transfers Yemen's liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Gulf of Aden export terminal, an interior ministry official told Xinhua.The explosion took place in Asilan area of the southeast province of Shabwa, neighboring to the oil-rich province of Marib, where...

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US soldier killed in the Dr.Dilip's rescue action

official ISAF release: U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Casualty 2012-12-US-001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KABUL, Afghanistan (December 9, 2012) – A U.S. Forces-Afghanistan service member died in eastern Afghanistan today. It is USFOR-A policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the U.S. Department of Defense,...

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