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02 6th, 2010|
Reuters - A delay of months in closing a remote combat outpost with “no tactical or strategic value” led to the deaths of eight U.S. soldiers last year in one of the worst battles of the Afghanistan war, a report found on Friday.
Feb
5
Reuters - A delay of months in closing a remote combat outpost with “no tactical or strategic value” led to the deaths of eight U.S. soldiers last year in one of the worst battles of the Afghanistan war, a report found on Friday.
Dec
29
AP - When the U.S. took over a Japanese airfield here in the closing days of World War II, it was surrounded by sugarcane fields and the smoldering battlegrounds of Okinawa. It is now the focus of a deepening dispute that is testing Japan’s security alliance with the United States and dividing its new government in Tokyo.
Feb
26
AFP - Indifferent to a row over the US airbase in their country, the mass of poor struggling to cope on the fringes of Bishkek reflect the gulf between rulers and ruled in ex-Soviet Central Asia.
Feb
20
AP - Kyrgyzstan’s president has signed a law to close a key U.S. air base used as a staging post for military operations in Afghanistan.
Feb
19
AP - Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted Thursday to close a key U.S. air base in the country a move that could hamper President Barack Obama’s efforts to increase the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
