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Estonian troops boost NATO forces

Deployment 10 percent of full military

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009

The bursts of automatic weapons fire caught them in an open field. There was no cover. They hugged the earth, shot back at Taliban gunmen they could see and slowly extricated themselves as a second squad of infantrymen farther back in an orchard laid down covering fire with rifles and shoulder-fired rockets.

U.S. needs intelligence from Afghan villagers

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009

The rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) screamed in just before noon, the booms from their air bursts nearly drowning out the sound of the incoming small-arms fire that kicked up the dust in the center of the compound.

Taliban, insurgents lurk near Afghan outposts

Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009

It's disconcerting to stand in a quiet valley of the Hindu Kush mountains and hear artillery shells break the silence, targeting gunmen who may be lying in wait to ambush U.S. forces.

U.S. poised to let Iraqis take lead

Qualms linger on readiness

Monday, June 29, 2009

Ten days before Tuesday's deadline for U.S. withdrawal from Iraqi cities, the war came full circle with the transfer to Iraqi control of two small but heavily symbolic bases in northeast Baghdad.

Iraqis rebuilding lives in war-torn areas

Improved security makes it easier for villagers to return

Thursday, June 25, 2009

With U.S. troops due to pull out of Iraqi cities in a week amid periodic spurts in terrorist attacks, Iraq faces the task of resettling hundreds of thousands of refugees in the neighborhoods they fled to escape sectarian attacks.

Baghdad still dangerous ahead of U.S. withdrawal

Combat troops set to exit cities by June 30

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Second Lt. John Harris was looking at the "Blue Tracker" GPS display in his Humvee as it traveled through eastern Baghdad when he was slammed against the door, ears ringing from the explosion of a remote control bomb.

Ba'athists aiding insurgent attacks

Former Saddam loyalists seen causing violence

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Former officials and military officers of Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime are helping facilitate attacks by disparate insurgent groups in Diyala province and tapping both nationalist sentiments and public discontent to destabilize the country's central government, U.S. military officers say.

EXCLUSIVE: Killings spur Army review of mental care

Sergeant charged with 5 counts of murder in Iraq shootings

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The U.S. commander of the Multi-National Force -- Iraq on Tuesday ordered a top-to-bottom review of mental health services for U.S. troops in the country after the worst act of U.S. soldier-on-soldier violence in the Iraq war.

U.S. forces in Iraq remain focused

Thursday, March 5, 2009

U.S. and Iraqi soldiers scouring the palm groves here for extremists' weapons caches during a recent patrol seemed to take in stride the announcement that the majority of U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq within 18 months.