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| WASHINGTON, April 30, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed four men and detained two others in operations overnight to disrupt bomb-making networks in Afghanistan’s Lowgar and Helmand provinces. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 29, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces have killed about 42 insurgents during operations in Oruzgan, Helmand and Lowgar provinces. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 29, 2009 - The Marines are working to build an Afghanistan-worthy, off-road version of a mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 29, 2009 - Any gains in Afghanistan will be tied to the coalition’s ability to tighten control of the Pakistan border. |
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| BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, April 28, 2009 - Country singer and troop supporter Toby Keith finished a 15-show tour in Afghanistan as he drew near the end of his seventh USO tour. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 28, 2009 - Afghanistan will be secure only when Afghan police enforce the rule of law in the country and overcome the people's misperceptions. |
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| KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 28, 2009 - A team of U.S. Army medical personnel at a remote Afghan outpost do their best to save an injured Afghan teenage boy. |
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| BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, April 28, 2009 - U.S. Civil Affairs soldiers are helping an Afghan commercial center in the city of Nangalam to continue doing business after dark by installing solar-powered lights in the marketplace. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 27, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed five militants and detained 16 suspects – including a Taliban commander -- during recent operations in Afghanistan. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 27, 2009 - A revitalized spirit is among the things the Army’s top officer noted during his third visit to Afghanistan in the past year and his first in four months. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 27, 2009 - Members of the 53rd Movement Control Battalion ensure that mail, equipment, passengers and supplies make it across Afghanistan. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 24, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces killed 14 insurgents in a six-hour battle in the Sangin district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province. |
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| KABUL, April 24, 2009 - Special Operations medical forces in Afghanistan completed an unusually difficult, but rewarding mission recently when they saved an Afghan baby. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 23, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed two militants and captured seven others in overnight operations in Afghanistan. |
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| PAKTIA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 23, 2009 - Paktia province elders and Paktia Provincial Reconstruction Team members held a bidders’ conference to give local contractors a chance to compete for construction projects. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 22, 2009 - Southern Afghanistan –- the home of the Taliban and host to the country’s opium industry –- is now the focus of the anti-insurgent campaign there. |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan, April 22, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed an insurgent and detained six suspects following an operation in eastern Afghanistan’s Konar province. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 22, 2009 - Afghan and U.S. troops conducted meetings with villagers in Paktia province to discuss the establishment of Combat Outpost Kalagu. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 21, 2009 - One militant was killed and a suspect was detained during a joint operation today by coalition and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan. |
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| WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 21, 2009 - The Afghan National Police worked with U.S. soldiers serving in Task Force Spartan to provide 25 women and their families with humanitarian aid packages. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 20, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces killed at least four militants and detained four more in recent operations throughout Afghanistan, U.S. military officials reported. |
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| NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 20, 2009 - Joined by local leaders, the provincial reconstruction team in Nangarhar Province celebrated the completion of the Grand Canal repair project in Jalalabad. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 17, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces killed eight militants and detained five in recent operations throughout Afghanistan, U.S. military officials reported. |
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| ALASAY VALLEY, Afghanistan, April 17, 2009 - U.S., Afghan, and French forces joined together in Afghanistan's Alasay Valley recently to provide medical care to more than 600 Afghans from local villages. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 16, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces detained two suspected insurgents and discovered weapons in recent operations throughout Afghanistan, U.S. military officials reported. |
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| KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 16, 2009 - Paratroopers at Forward Operating Base Salerno are busy running fiber-optic cable to keep critical lines of communication open. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 15, 2009 - Coalition forces are helping Afghan civilians and soldiers alike with medical outreach that is curing illnesses, preventing diseases and keeping soldiers and security forces on the job.
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| KAPISA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 14, 2009 - U.S. forces teamed up with French and Afghan forces to bring medical treatment and supplies to residents of isolated Afghan villages. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 13, 2009 - Twelve militants were killed and a suicide bomber was stopped in Afghanistan during weekend operations. |
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| WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 13, 2009 - Making Afghan roads safe for civilian and military traffic is a daily responsibility for soldiers of the Task Force Catamount's route-clearance team. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 10, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces killed 32 insurgents today during operations in southern Afghanistan, military officials reported. |
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| NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 10, 2009 - The coalition's reconstruction team for Afghanistan's Nangarhar province has opened six new schools there, marking the first time many children have been educated in a school building.
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| KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 10, 2009 - U.S. combat medics at a forward operating base in Afghanistan have treated more than 4,000 Afghans in an aid station that has essentially become an emergency room. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 9, 2009 - An investigation is under way into a firefight in the Khowst district of Afghanistan’s Khowst province, as U.S. Forces Afghanistan officials acknowledged that the people killed were not enemy fighters. |
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| GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, April 9, 2009 - A “comprehensive approach” to regional stability and military planning is a prudent approach for a continued peace, the military leader of Italy’s armed forces said during a speech given in Germany. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 9, 2009 - A 2-year-old girl from Afghanistan’s Gardez province and her family flew to Cincinnati recently to have reconstructive surgery on the child’s trachea. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 8, 2009 - More than 5,000 residents of Afghanistan’s Panjshir province gathered March 30 to celebrate the groundbreaking for a road some say will make the area the best in the country for travel. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 7, 2009 - Soldiers from Task Force Catamount are building relationships with central Afghanistan residents where Taliban compete for villagers' support. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 6, 2009 - Coalition and Afghan forces have killed at least 52 insurgents and captured 17 others in four days of fighting in Afghanistan, military officials reported. |
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| PANJSHIR, Afghanistan, April 6, 2009 - In northern Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, progress is not measured only in dollars spent and projects completed, but in moving residents toward self-sufficiency. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 3, 2009 - Air combat operations in Afghanistan are “the most precise” ever used, and airmen are doing “an incredible job there,” an Air Force general said. |
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| WASHINGTON, April 3, 2009 - Afghan and coalition forces killed five enemy fighters in operations in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, military officials reported.
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| WASHINGTON, April 2, 2009 - Afghan soldiers, aided by coalition forces, killed 20 armed insurgents in a firefight in southern Afghanistan, near where they destroyed a bomb-making facility, military officials reported. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 2, 2009 - Three U.S. military police officers are tasked with mentoring Afghan National Police in an area larger than the state of Delaware. |
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| BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 1, 2009 - Troops turned out in big numbers to meet four former World Wrestling Entertainment “divas” at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. |
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