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03 12th, 2009| 
AFP – The US Defense Department said on Wednesday it has made no decision to delay the purchase of aerial refueling tankers, despite reports the White House asked it to put off the move. Read the rest of this entry »
Mar
12
AFP – The United States was “delighted” at France’s decision to rejoin NATO’s military command, according to the Defense Department. Read the rest of this entry »
Mar
10
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 »
Mar
9
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 »
Mar
8
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 »
Mar
8
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 »