Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CH-47 Chinook helicopters take off in the early morning in support of Operation Anaconda, March 4, 2002. US Army Within weeks of ...
GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- To some veteran Afghan commanders, the recent U.S. offensive against al-Qaida fighters in eastern Afghanistan failed because most of them got away. Moreover, they say, this ...
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BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — “You will never forget this,” the colonel said, standing atop a Humvee in front of a rusting Soviet-era hangar. “You will never forget that man or woman on your right or ...
GARDEZ, Afghanistan — Every morning, a forlorn procession of the bereft and the defeated gathers at the gates of the governor’s pale yellow compound in this weather-beaten provincial outpost. There ...
Operation Anaconda is intended to rout hundreds of enemy fighters believed to have regrouped after the Taliban fell Dec. 7 from their spiritual base in Kandahar. Neither the former Taliban supreme ...
A Special Forces soldier who died in the opening hours of Operation Anaconda in eastern Afghanistan this month may have been mistakenly killed by an American AC-130 "Spectre" gunship, defense ...
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An Army Ranger quick reaction force attempts to rescue a patrol pinned down on a mountaintop in southeast Afghanistan They have no idea that within twelve hours five ...
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