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Oklahoma City soldier killed in Afghanistan Updated: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 Another member of the Oklahoma Army National Guard has been killed in Afghanistan, the military said Monday. Spc. Francisco J. Briseno-Alvarez Jr., 27, of Oklahoma City, died Sunday in Laghman province, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device, the... Read More
Suicide bomber in northern Iraqi city kills 7 Updated: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber blew himself up near an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul, killing seven people. Police and medical officials say 16 people were injured. Four of the dead were Iraqi soldiers. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were... Read More
Attack on Afghan army recruiting center kills 35 Updated: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber posing as an army volunteer blew himself up outside a military recruiting center in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 35 people and escalating the insurgent campaign to scare young Afghans away from military service. It was the second deadly attack on the... Read More
Russia identifies airport bomber as Caucasus man Published: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 MOSCOW (AP) — The suicide bomber who killed 35 people at Moscow's busiest airport was deliberately targeting foreigners, investigators said Saturday, which would mark an ominous new tactic by separatist militants in southern Russia if he was recruited by an Islamist terror cell. Federal investigators know the... Read More
Bomb strikes funeral, killing 48 in Baghdad Updated: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a funeral tent in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 48 people and triggering skirmishes between Iraqi troops and demonstrators angry about security failures. The blast and three other small bombings Thursday were the latest in more than a week of... Read More
Thousands fear hunger after Pakistan bombing Published: Sun, Dec 26, 2010 KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Some 300,000 desperately poor villagers impoverished by fighting in Pakistan's tribal belt are scrambling to feed themselves after a female suicide bomber killed 45 people outside a World Food Program food distribution center, triggering a district wide suspension of the relief project.... Read More
NATO: 5 service members killed in Afghanistan Published: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A series of bomb blasts and insurgents attacks killed 11 people across Afghanistan on Sunday, including five NATO service members and three Afghan police, officials said. The strikes, which come a day after Taliban fighters stormed a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, show the... Read More
McAlester soldier dies in Afghanistan Updated: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 McALESTER -- A McAlester soldier has died from wounds he suffered in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday. Read More
Pakistani officials: Suspected US missiles kill 16 Published: Sat, Oct 2, 2010 PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two suspected American missile strikes killed 16 alleged militants in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region Saturday, intelligence officials said, a sign the U.S. is unwilling to stop using the tactic despite heightened tensions between the two countries over NATO's recent border... Read More
7 US troops killed in latest Afghanistan fighting Published: Sun, Aug 29, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, while officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign aides working for a female candidate in the western province of Herat. Two servicemen died in bombings Sunday in... Read More
Suicide car bomber kills 8 west of Baghdad Updated: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol west of Baghdad Sunday and killed eight people, most of them civilians standing in line outside a post office to collect the monthly stipend for the country's poorest, police officials said. The blast comes just a day after explosions tore through a... Read More
July deadliest month for Iraqis since 2008 Published: Sun, Aug 1, 2010 BAGHDAD (AP) — July was Iraq's deadliest month in more than two years, according to new official figures, suggesting that a resilient insurgency is successfully taking advantage of a months long deadlock in forming a new government. The figures released late Saturday show that 535 people were killed last month,... Read More
July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US Published: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. In Kabul, police fired weapons into the air Friday to... Read More
Attacks kill 11 Afghan police, official in north Published: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Militant attacks in once-calm northern Afghanistan killed at least 11 police officers and a government official whose car was hit by a remote-controlled bomb, officials said Sunday. In the south, NATO said a U.S. service member died Sunday following an insurgent attack and a combined... Read More
6 US troops, 12 civilians killed in Afghan attacks Published: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Six American service members and at least a dozen civilians died in attacks Saturday in Afghanistan's volatile east and south, adding to a summer of escalating violence as Taliban militants push back against stepped-up operations by international and Afghan forces. NATO said four U.S.... Read More
U.S. Army plans to train soliders in electronic warfare at Fort Sill Published: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — The Army plans to train 1,500 soldiers and officers in electronic warfare at Fort Sill, Okla., by September 2010, giving the military its largest electronic warfare cadre. These plans are in support of a new 112-page Army doctrine on electronic warfare, a copy of which was obtained... Read More
General wants help in Afghanistan now Updated: Wed, Oct 1, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top American military commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that he needs more troops and other aid "as quickly as possible" in a counterinsurgency battle that could get worse before it gets better. Gen. David McKiernan said it's not just a question of troops - but more economic... Read More
Suicide attacks kill 1,188 in Pakistan since '07 Updated: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Suicide attacks have killed nearly 1,200 people in Pakistan since July 2007, most of them civilians, according to military statistics Monday that underscored the ferocity of the threat facing the U.S. ally in the war on extremist groups. Meanwhile, heavy fighting between... Read More
Pakistan: Suicide attacker targets army convoy Updated: Sat, Sep 20, 2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- An official says a suicide bomber has ttacked an army convoy traveling in Pakistan's volatile northwest and that casualties are feared. Army spokesman Maj. Murad Khan said the attack Saturday targeted a convoy heading from Bannu to Miran Shah, the main town in the... Read More
Bombs kill at least 35, Iraqis say Updated: Sun, Aug 3, 2008 BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew herself up Monday among police officers who were celebrating the release of a comrade from U.S. custody, killing at least 22 people, Iraqi officials said. Separate bombings in Iraq killed 13 other people. The suicide attack happened in Diyala, a province northeast... Read More
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