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The Pentagon is taking a close look at its war strategy in Afghanistan in the face of rising violence from an increasingly complex insurgency, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday.
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The new U.S. military command for Africa is unlikely to foster the security required to bring badly needed development to the impoverished continent, according to a study released on Thursday.
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The Pentagon on Wednesday approved war crimes charges against a Guantanamo prisoner from Sudan who is accused of acting as a bodyguard and driver for Osama bin Laden.
Military prosecutors have...
An Algerian pilot who spent five months in jail wrongly accused of training September 11 hijackers won the right to claim compensation from the British government in a legal ruling on Thursday....
The United States will press its European NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan's violent south in response to Canada's call for reinforcements, but the Pentagon said it will not...
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates admitted on Thursday that he was not too familiar with the music of Bono, the U2 singer and anti-poverty activist he met earlier this week.
"It's a...
President George W. Bush, trying to assure Americans he has made
them safer since the Sept. 11 attacks and help his party in the
congressional elections, addresses a nation tonight that has grown...
Under strict security the court-martial proceedings against the
first US soldier to answer charges connected to the mistreatment of
Iraqi prisoners started on Wednesday in Baghdad.
The US general who helped uncover the Iraqi prison abusem scandal,
said Tuesday a breakdown of leadership led to the mistreatment but
there was no evidence American soldiers were following orders.
US officials are struggling over how best to release the next wave
of disturbing photographs, and possibly video films, depicting the
abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison...
The United States had al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in its sights
at least three times after the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa,
but each time balked at launching strikes to kill him, a US...
US President George W Bush was to call today for swifter democratic
reforms in the Middle East amid continuing violence in Iraq and
Pentagon plans to rotate US troops there.
The US let in one of the future September 11 hijackers in mid-2000
for flight lessons despite suspicions of his links to al-Qaeda, a
German magazine reported yesterday.
The US aimed for Iraqi elections by mid-2004, but a new regional
council set up in toppled dictator Saddam Hussein's heartland met
with local indifference as two more US troops died in rebel
strikes.