Marines taking over Afghan duties
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Royal Marines are taking over military operations in Helmand, replacing 16 Air Assault Brigade, who are ending their six-month tour.
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KABUL, Dec 11: The US-led military in Afghanistan has kicked off a new operation to hunt Taliban militants in their winter stronghold and force them to accept an Afghan government reconciliation offer, a US military spokesman said on Saturday.
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The United States, which has just doubled its combat troops in Afghanistan, took over command of the 33,000-strong NATO force in the country on Sunday amid warnings of a bloody spring offensive by the Taliban.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The beat-up video camera was delivered to Afghanistan in a box and picked up by two clean-shaven Arabs posing as journalists. They met with Osama bin Laden before leaving on their mission: to kill mujahideen hero Ahmad Shah Massood.
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The government has decided to send up to 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to fight a resurgent Taliban, days after announcing a major reduction in forces in Iraq.
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The U.S. military is planning to deploy about 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan this spring to counter an expected offensive by Taliban insurgents, a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday, citing NATO allies' failure to provide additional combat troops.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO yesterday took command of US troops fighting insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, putting the Western alliance in charge of security amid an increase in fighting.
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NATO troops assumed command Monday of military operations in volatile southern Afghanistan from the U.S.-led coalition, marking the first time the alliance has conducted land combat operations.
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NATO will take command of up to 12,000 U.S. troops and the territory they control in Afghanistan in "few days," a spokesman for the alliance said Sunday.
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Almost three years to the day after it took command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), NATO takes charge of security operations from the US-led coalition, which forced out the fundamentalist Taliban regime.
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The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Forces on Saturday said troops will "kick the Taliban out and defeat them" after Taliban forces took control in the southern Afghan district of Musa Qala overnight, shouldering out a locally raised force of auxiliary police loyal to the Afghan government.
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The Pentagon may send 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan in the coming weeks to reinforce the country's British-led sector ahead of an expected spring offensive by the Taliban and al Qaeda.
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NATO will assume responsibility for  security across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday when it  takes command in the east from U.S.-led coalition forces, a  senior NATO official said on Tuesday.
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The United States will send an  additional force of about 3,200 Marines to Afghanistan this  spring to help NATO troops and Afghan security forces confront  rising Taliban violence, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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The United States will send an additional force of about 3,200 Marines to Afghanistan to help NATO forces combat Taliban militants and to train Afghan security forces, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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Canadian soldiers are among those helping form a cordon around Kabul in advance of Tuesday&#39;s inauguration of President-elect Hamid Karzai.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A massive US military relief operation picked up steam yesterday, with helicopters dropping off cartons of food aid in Sumatra and warships with 2,200 Marines arriving in the Malacca Straits to ferry supplies to the tsunami-battered Indonesian island.