Revealed: How hundreds of military personnel, millions of pounds and and experimental 'lung' saved the life of a British soldier... shot by accident in his own camp.
The US military moves Heaven and Earth to save "Soldier X".
I heard the gunshot and saw them take Soldier X away. Soon, he was flown by a helicopter into the night and I never saw him again.
Coalition Prepares to Establish New Military Headquarters in South Before Major Surge Offensive
In a tactical move to weaken the Taliban's stronghold in Kandahar, the U.S. and its allies are about to create a new American-led military command in southern Afghanistan. WSJ's Military Correspondent Yochi Dreazen reports
The Afghan government took official control of the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah on Thursday, installing an administrator and raising the national flag while U.S.-led troops worked to root out final pockets of militants.
Top U.S. Commander Sees Progress in Afghanistan, Iraq
AP
Army Gen. David Petraeus said in a speech at Princeton University that after more than eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, the U.S. finally is getting enough troops, diplomats and organizational structure to be able to keep extremist groups from taking over again there.
A U.S. Marine from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment sits alone
after a patrol in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Friday,
Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Pakistani police officers show explosive jackets they confiscated during a raid at a house in Chaman, a Pakistani border town along Afghanistan border on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)
BAGHDAD -- The American military says the number of boots on the ground in Iraq has dropped below 100,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Army 1st Lt. Elizabeth Feste told The Associated Press that as of Tuesday there are 98,000 troops in Iraq.
That's a significant drop from the roughly 140,000 troops in the month after the invasion, and a decline of about 70,000 since the height of the 2007 surge in which tens of thousands were deployed to fight the insurgency.
The declining number of troops signals the U.S. is sticking by its plan to steadily reduce its number of combat troops in Iraq to 50,000 by the end of August.
The U.S. military will pull out of the country completely by the end of 2011.
U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment take cover in an open poppy field during a firefight as Taliban fighters fire on them in the town of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday Feb. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Feb. 13: U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment walk in a column as they enter Marjah in Afghanistan's
Helmand province.
MARJAH, Afghanistan — Bombs and booby traps slowed the advance of
thousands of U.S. Marines and Afgha soldiers moving Saturday through the
Taliban-controlled town of Marjah
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