AP – As of Monday, March 9, 2009, at least 589 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Monday at 10 a.m. EST. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A senior MP from radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s party on Monday called for the immediate withdrawal of US troops, a day after plans for a major drawdown was announced. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP/File – Iraq and the United States announced on Sunday that 12,000 US troops will go home by the end of September, as a suicide bomber killed 28 people outside a Baghdad police academy. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – The dissident republican group Real IRA claimed responsibility on Sunday for killing two British soldiers in Northern Ireland, one of the worst attacks since a 1998 peace deal stemmed years of violence. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – As of Friday, March 6, 2009, at least 589 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EST. Read the rest of this entry »