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| FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 30, 2008 - Afghan National Army soldiers and coalition forces distributed supplies to women and children visiting the Women's Affairs Department office in Farah. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 29, 2008 - Villagers in Afghanistan have helped coalition and Afghan security forces recover numerous weapons caches over the last two months, military officials reported. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 28, 2008 - When the “Legends of Wrestling” tour rolled into Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, Jan. 26, troops and civilians gathered for the adrenaline-pumping event. |
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2008 - Coalition forces are making slow but steady progress training the Afghan police force, a top leader in the effort said. |
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| NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 28, 2008 - The Joint Provincial Coordination Center in Jalalabad is serving as a model for synchronizing the efforts of U.S. and Afghan military and police forces as well as emergency fire and medical services. |
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2008 - The Afghan army air corps is going through rapid growth, but it will take eight years for the force to be self-sustaining, a top commander said. |
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| FIREBASE NAWA, Afghanistan, Jan. 24, 2008 - With winter in full force, the Afghan National Police and the Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team provide medical care as well as clothes, blankets and toys, to villagers. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 24, 2008 - Several insurgents were killed and nine suspected insurgents were detained as coalition forces conducted an operation to degrade Taliban command-and-control networks in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. |
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| KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 24, 2008 - Task Force Saber paratroopers are helping educate Afghan children through a partnership with schools in Kunar and Nuristan provinces. “They yearn for knowledge,” said U.S. Army Capt. Jay S. VanDenbos. |
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2008 - Commanders in Afghanistan share their best counterinsurgency tactics, but the country is big and what works in one area may not work in another, the commander of NATO’s Regional Command—East said at a Pentagon news conference. |
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| KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan , Jan. 23, 2008 - Day and night, paratroopers of Company A, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), patrol the newly constructed Pech Road, in Kunar province to bring security to an area known for violence. |
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| KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 22, 2008 - A U.S. Marine team is teaching Afghan army officers to take the lead for their army and country in an effort to put coalition forces in more of a support role. |
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2008 - Coalition forces detained seven suspected insurgents during anti-Taliban operations in Afghanistan’s Zabul province, military officials said. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 18, 2008 - More than 190 Afghan National Army commandos from 203rd Corps vied for the right to be crowned the "best of the best" during a competition at a combined military outpost in Khowst province. |
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| KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 17, 2008 - The medical personnel of Task Force Saber provide a first-class, life-saving aid station on a base along Pakistan's snow-covered mountain border.
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| FORWARD OPERATING BASE FENTY, Afghanistan, Jan. 16, 2008 - U.S. Army engineers of Task Force Rugged concluded the first of three winter skilled-labor workshops to teach Afghans construction skills. |
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2008 - Afghanistan’s national security forces are in the forefront of the fight against insurgents who seek to derail the government. |
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2008 - The Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Kapisa Team delivered winter coats and shoes to an Afghan village and provided tents for children who attend school in a field. “These tents will help protect these children from the elements,” said Air Force Capt. Erick Saks.
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| KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 14, 2008 - The Afghan National Army demonstrated flexibility and resolve in answering the call of its national government to help hundreds of villagers in the Naray district. |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 14, 2008 - The Afghan National Army Air Corps has opened a school to teach English to Afghan pilots and other military professionals. “We’re having great, great results,” said Penni Shanahan, the language training team leader. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 14, 2008 - The Afghan National Army’s 207th Kandak, advised by coalition forces, provided emergency medical assistance to save the lives of a mother and her newborn Jan. 10 in the remote village of Aji Kah, in the Gozara district of Herat province. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 11, 2008 - Afghan police and coalition forces found a munitions cache hidden in a boys school in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province following a day-long battle. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 11, 2008 - Afghan national security forces and coalition forces wrapped up a two-day operation that provided free medical and dental services to villagers in remote sections of the Nahr Surkh district in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 10, 2008 - Afghan national security forces and coalition advisors provided medical checkups and humanitarian aid to more than 100 villagers Jan. 6 near Khorma in the Tarin Kowt district of Oruzgan province. |
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| QALAT, Afghanistan, Jan. 9, 2008 - A smiling jester grins down from their ballcaps, but the U.S. soldiers who wear them are all business and they’re very serious about their job of training the 4th Kandak of the Afghan National Army’s 205th Corps. |
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2008 - The international coalition continues to make progress by disrupting insurgent networks, bolstering national security forces and strengthening Afghan institutions, a top military official said. |
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| KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 8, 2008 - U.S. Marines serve as embedded training team mentors to Afghan army units, teaching them about leadership and responsibility, while climbing the mountains they currently call home. |
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| FORWARD OPERATING BASE GARDEZ, Afghanistan, Jan. 8, 2008 - For the past year, a trio of airmen here has helped bring self-governance, security and economic growth to the people of Paktia and Logar provinces. |
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| POL-E-CHARKI, Afghanistan, Jan. 7, 2008 - Eight Afghan National Army weapons specialists have graduated from the first Commando Armorer Training Program.
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2008 - Afghan National Police arrested two suspected bomb makers during a raid in the Bermel area of Afghanistan’s Paktika province. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 7, 2008 - With help from coalition troops, Afghan national security forces and the country’s Public Health Ministry delivered medical supplies to the Tarin Kowt Hospital in Oruzgan province. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 4, 2008 - Coalition and Afghan forces delivered more than a ton of food, clothes and toys to about 380 children in a Kandahar province orphanage. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 4, 2008 - One airman’s commitment to a fallen comrade led to the dedication of a road in his honor at Bagram Air Base. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 3, 2008 - Afghan national security forces saved the lives of civilians and coalition forces when they found two improvised explosive devices placed on commonly used routes. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 3, 2008 - Afghan national security forces, Public Health Ministry personnel and coalition forces, treated 56 Afghan citizens in Oruzgan province. |
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2008 - Security has improved so much in Afghanistan’s Khowst province that Pakistani families are taking refuge there, officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2008 - Afghan national security forces liberated the village of Yakhdan, in the Shahidi Hasas district of Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province, from insurgent control Dec. 31, coalition military officials reported. |
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| BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 2, 2008 - Though no one popped open a bottle of bubbly, troops in Afghanistan still found a way to have fun on the last night of 2007. “It’s hard not spending time with my wife or friends on New Year’s Eve, but I got a good laugh listening to the comedians," said Army Spc. Craig Chick, 82nd Airborne Division Aviation Operations |
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