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• Marines to live among Afghans

  July 2, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – Thousands of U.S. Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys today, mounting an operation that represents the first large-scale test …

• Despite problems, Osprey will serve in Afghanistan

  June 24, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – In the fall, the first squadron of Marines finally will fly V-22 Ospreys into the mountains of Afghanistan, months behind schedule and despite shortcomings that make some in …

• Back in Valley, Crocker reflects on diplomacy’s lessons

    June 17, 2009 in City on Page A1 In life, Ryan Crocker says, it is better to be lucky than good and more important to have perseverance than hope. Those lessons are among those he’s learned in a …

• House OKs funding bill for Afghanistan, Iraq wars

  June 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Sidestepping opposition from antiwar liberals, the House on Tuesday approved funding to escalate the war in Afghanistan and wind down U.S. involvement in Iraq. The $106 billion war-funding …

• Former Iraq ambassador feels halfway to ‘normalcy’

    June 16, 2009 in City In life, Ryan Crocker says, it is better to be lucky than good, and more important to have perseverance than hope.

• U.S. says violence spiking in Afghanistan

  June 12, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The violence that has surged for two years in Afghanistan reached a new high last week, and more difficulty lies ahead, the commander of U.S. troops in the …

• Afghan militants’ bomb use surges

  June 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Insurgent use of roadside bombs in Afghanistan has surged 80 percent this year, a NATO official said Thursday. The increase since the same period last year includes bombs …

• U.S. admits errors in Afghan airstrikes

  June 4, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Military investigators have concluded that some airstrikes that killed civilians during a battle in western Afghanistan last month were mistakes but are trying to determine whether the service …

• U.S. fears higher toll in Afghanistan

  June 3, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 KABUL – U.S. deaths in Afghanistan have risen to 65 so far this year, up from 36 over the first five months of 2008 – though U.S. and coalition troops …

• Tributes observed overseas

  May 26, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 BAGHDAD – American troops on Memorial Day honored their fallen on two battlefields, one war winding down and another ramping up. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military remembered the …

• Faces of the fallen

    May 25, 2009 in City on Page A1 The Inland Northwest has a strong military tradition. For generations it has sent its sons and daughters into harm’s way when the nation is at war, knowing that not all … 1

• Taliban halt peace talks amid continued aggression

  April 28, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A Pakistani military offensive against insurgent hideouts prompted suspension of controversial peace talks with the Taliban Monday, and the country’s president sought additional foreign aid to assure …

• Taliban grab territory near Pakistan’s capital

  April 23, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 ISLAMABAD – Taliban militants have extended their grip in northwestern Pakistan, pushing out from a valley where the government has agreed to impose Islamic law and patrolling villages as close …

• Afghan women pelted at marriage law protest

  April 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 KABUL – Dozens of young women braved crowds of bearded men screaming “dogs!” on Wednesday to protest an Afghan law that lets husbands demand sex from their wives. Some of …

• Obama: Buildup doesn’t portend another Vietnam

  March 30, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Invoking what he described as a lesson of Vietnam, President Barack Obama said Sunday that his commitment to step up military operations in Afghanistan was not open-ended and …

• Trudy Rubin: Help Afghanistan help itself

  March 12, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 The world may be collapsing, but some individuals won’t let that stop them from working for change in its most troubled corners. This is a good time to spotlight two …

• Top Taliban officer was former detainee

  March 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The Taliban’s new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took …

• Al-Qaida resurfacing, military official says

  March 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Al-Qaida has expanded its presence in Afghanistan, taking advantage of the sinking security situation to resurface in the country it was forced to flee seven years ago, the …

• Karzai loses bid for early election

  March 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 The Afghan election commission rejected President Hamid Karzai’s request to move the presidential elections to the spring, saying the country won’t be safe enough or have enough money by then …

• U.S. offensive targets Taliban stronghold

  February 26, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 JALREZ VALLEY, Afghanistan – Hundreds of U.S. troops pushed into a key Taliban stronghold Wednesday in a major operation to stop the insurgents from infiltrating the Afghan capital from the …

• Trudy Rubin: Afghanistan strategy merits a look

  February 26, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 When President Barack Obama announced last week that he was sending an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, I thought of David Kilcullen. Kilcullen is a former Australian military officer who …

• Kyrgyzstan issues eviction notice to key U.S. base

  February 20, 2009 in City, Nation/World Kyrgyzstan ordered U.S. forces on Friday to depart within six months from an air base key to military operations in Afghanistan, complicating plans to send more troops to battle rising …

• Obama to deploy 17,000 to ‘stabilize’ Afghanistan

  February 18, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has ordered the first combat deployments of his presidency, saying Tuesday that he had authorized an additional 17,000 U.S. troops “to stabilize a deteriorating situation” …

• Taliban commander killed, U.S. says

  February 16, 2009 in City on Page A4 KABUL – Forces with the U.S.-backed coalition killed a regional Taliban commander and eight others in an airstrike in western Afghanistan, the U.S. said today. The Sunday night attack destroyed …

• Bomb squads attack secured areas in Kabul

  February 12, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 KABUL, Afghanistan – In a series of audacious strikes on the eve of the new U.S. special envoy’s scheduled arrival in Afghanistan, Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers on Wednesday staged …

• U.S.-donated weapons lost

  February 12, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of assault rifles and other firearms in Afghanistan are at risk of being stolen because U.S. officials have lost track of them, according to a …

• U.S. report is somber about Afghanistan war

  February 9, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 MUNICH, Germany – President Barack Obama’s national security team gave a dire assessment Sunday of the war in Afghanistan, with one official calling it a challenge “much tougher than Iraq” …

• U.S. troops in Afghanistan may double by late summer

  January 28, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday “we are lost” unless the United States can find a way not to kill so many civilians in the pursuit of militants …

• In brief: Karzai says raid killed 16 civilians

  January 26, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 President Hamid Karzai condemned a U.S. operation he said killed 16 Afghan civilians, while hundreds of villagers denounced the American military during an angry demonstration Sunday. Karzai said the killing …

• U.S. gets OK for new routes to Afghanistan

  January 21, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A6 WASHINGTON – Army Gen. David Petraeus said Tuesday that the United States had reached agreements to open “additional logistical routes into Afghanistan” through its Central Asian neighbors to the north, …

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