AFP – US Marines left the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar on Saturday after almost seven years of operations in what was once Iraq’s epicentre of Al-Qaeda activity and insurgent violence. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A US Marine unit arrived off the coast of Haiti Saturday as the United States continued to ramp up its military deployment to the country’s relief effort, US Southern Command said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The deployment of over 15,000 US troops to Haiti will have “no impact” on the surge of forces in Afghanistan, the US military commander overseeing operations in the region said Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A US firm sought to quiet a controversy over coded Biblical references inscribed on gunsights used by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, announcing it was providing kits to remove them. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – The man accused of killing one soldier and wounding another outside an Arkansas military recruiting center has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming ties to al-Qaida. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Muslim groups reacted angrily after it emerged that the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan were using rifle sights inscribed with coded Biblical references. Read the rest of this entry »