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Marines Replace UK Troops in Deadly Afghan District
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Sept. 20) -- British forces today handed over responsibility for security in one of southern Afghanistan's deadliest districts to the U.S. Marines, marking the end of the U.K.'s four-year-long combat mission in the area. Sangin district -- which sits on a key opium trafficking route in the north of the troubled Helmand province -- has been the site of some of the bloodiest battles of the Afghan conflict. When British troops were first deployed there in 2006, with the aim of rescuing an Afghan official, they were only supposed to stay for 72 hours. But the soldiers were drawn into a ...
Rogue Afghan Soldier Kills 3 British Troops
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 13) -- A rogue Afghan soldier fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a NATO patrol today, killing three British troops in an incident likely to renew doubts about the reliability of the Afghan army. Four soldiers were wounded, according to a military spokesman. It is not known whether the renegade soldier was working for the Taliban or a local warlord or was simply taking revenge for an unknown grievance. A statement issued by NATO said the attack took place early in the morning at a joint NATO/Afghan army base in southern Afghanistan. Sky News reported that the dead soldiers are ...
Will the War in Iraq Ever Go Away?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyThe war in Iraq just isn't going gently into the night, is it? Sunday's parliamentary election took place amid a backdrop of mortar, grenade and bomb attacks in Baghdad and other major cities. The good news is that the elections went ahead and people voted. But the extreme political fragmentation that characterizes the country -- with some 6,000 candidates, from more than 80 parties, chasing a mere 325 parliamentary seats -- means that whatever coalition government results will be necessarily fragile. And even as President Obama praised Iraqi voters for their bravery in casting their ballots, ...
British Launch Inquiry Into Iraq War
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Nov. 25) -- Almost seven years after Britain joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and amidst a still blazing public debate, a government-appointed panel has launched a sweeping investigation into why the country went to war and why British forces were so poorly prepared for the chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein. "We've waited a long time for this," says Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq in 2004. "I want to know why our troops were sent to Iraq in the first place, why we unquestioningly followed America, and why our ...
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