Posts Tagged ‘combat’
Panetta: US combat in Afghanistan to end next year (AP)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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