Feb 1

US Marines facing a 'different war' in Afghanistan<br />
    (AFP)<br />

AFP - For the US Marines deployed to the battlefields of southern Afghanistan, life is fragile and thoughts focus on the day they see their families again, but something about this war is different.

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Jan 31

US Marines facing a 'different war' in Afghanistan<br />
    (AFP)<br />

AFP - For the US Marines deployed to the battlefields of southern Afghanistan, life is fragile and thoughts focus on the day they see their families again, but something about this war is different.

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Jan 24

US Marines leave former Al-Qaeda hotspot in western Iraq<br />
    (AFP)<br />

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.

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Jan 23

US Marines leave former Al-Qaeda hotspot in western Iraq<br />
    (AFP)<br />

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.

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Dec 2

Marines to hold hearing for officer on Iraq deaths<br />
    (AP)<br />

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Dec 1

9,000 Marines to Helmand after Obama speech: report<br />
    (AFP)<br />

AFP - The US military will deploy up to 9,000 Marines to Afghanistan’s Helmand province — doubling US presence there — in the days after President Barack Obama’s war strategy announcement this week, the Washington Post said Saturday.

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Nov 29

9,000 Marines to Helmand after Obama speech: report<br />
    (AFP)<br />

AFP - The US military will deploy up to 9,000 Marines to Afghanistan’s Helmand province — doubling US presence there — in the days after President Barack Obama’s war strategy announcement this week, the Washington Post said Saturday.

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Nov 29

9,000 Marines to Helmand after Obama speech: report<br />
    (AFP)<br />

AFP - The US military will deploy up to 9,000 Marines to Afghanistan’s Helmand province — doubling US presence there — in the days after President Barack Obama’s war strategy announcement this week, the Washington Post said Saturday.

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Jul 12

2 US Marines die in S. Afghanistan bomb blasts<br />
    (AP)<br />

AP - A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have deployed in a massive operation to oust Taliban fighters from the country’s opium poppy region, officials said Sunday.

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Jul 10

Taliban launch 'operation' against Marines<br />
    (AFP)<br />

AFP - Afghanistan’s insurgent Taliban movement said Monday they had launched a guerrilla operation to thwart a major assault by newly deployed US Marines on their Helmand strongholds.

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