Posts Tagged ‘combat’

Panetta: US combat in Afghanistan to end next year (AP)

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrives in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, to attend a NATO conference . (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)AP – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration’s most explicit portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their combat role in 2013 and continue a training and advisory role with Afghan forces through 2014.


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Review: ‘Ace Combat: Assault Horizon’ is all style, no substance 

There are explosions. There are epic gunfights. And there are monstrous battles. But in “Ace Combat: Assault Horizon,” none of it is truly any fun.

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Marines to wind down Afghan combat in 2012 (AP)

In this photo taken with a cell phone, Marine Gen. James Amos visits Combat Outpost Geronimo in southern Afghanistan Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, as he visits troops. The U.S. Marines' top general, James Amos, sprinted up and down the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, visiting frontline Marines at nine remote outposts to share Thanksgiving and applaud their gains against the Taliban in a region where al-Qaida hatched the 9/11 plot a decade ago. (AP Photo/Bob Burns)AP – U.S. Marines will march out of Afghanistan by the thousands next year, winding down combat in the Taliban heartland and testing the U.S. view that Afghan forces are capable of leading the fight against a battered but not yet beaten insurgency in the country’s southwestern reaches, senior U.S. military officers say.


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Colombia: Rebel leader died in combat with troops (AP)

AP – Colombia’s defense minister says FARC rebel leader Alfonso Cano was killed in combat with soldiers and police hours after his camp was bombed.

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Non-OPEC govts to release oil to combat high price (AP)

In this June 22, 2011 photo, gas station manager Joseph Sublett changes a sign reflecting lower prices in Little Rock, Ark. Wary of a new surge in gas prices, the Obama administration has decided to release 30 million barrels of oil from the country's emergency reserve as part of a broader international response to lost oil supplies caused by turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly Libya.(AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP – The International Energy Agency, which includes the U.S. and 27 other countries, said Thursday it would release 60 million barrels of oil from emergency stocks in an effort to ease the strain that high oil prices have put on the global economic recovery.


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NATO bombs Tripoli, combat stirs Libyan east front (AP)

Rebel fighters gather in a check point in Ajdabiya, Libya, Monday, May 9, 2011.  (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – Rebels battled Moammar Gadhafi’s forces on a deadlocked front line in eastern Libya, and NATO warplanes struck Tripoli early Tuesday in the heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital in weeks.


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Combat stirs Libya’s deadlocked eastern front (AP)

Rebel fighters gather in a check point in Ajdabiya, Libya, Monday, May 9, 2011.  (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – Rebels battled Moammar Gadhafi’s forces on a deadlocked front line in eastern Libya, and welcomed the first supply ship in five days to reach the besieged western port city of Misrata.


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