U.S. sending 3,200 Marines to Afghanistan
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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 Pentagon warned Tuesday that NATO nations will be expected to fill the void when a contingent of about 3,200 U.S. Marines leaves Afghanistan at the end of this year.
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The U.S. military is sending 600 Marines and Navy personnel to the Philippines to assist in recovery efforts after recent storms left hundreds dead and displaced 200,000 from their homes.
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Some 700 US soldiers will be getting orders to ship out to Afghanistan on Friday, amid security concerns in the runup to October elections.
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A team of U.S. Marines has arrived in this Red Sea port to assist in security at a U.S. Consulate that came under attack this week by Islamic militants, an American Embassy official said Thursday.
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About 3,200 Marines are being told to prepare to go to Afghanistan, military officials said Monday, in an effort to boost combat troop levels and get ready for an expected Taliban offensive this spring.
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The Pentagon's decision to send 2,200 Marines to southern Afghanistan will fill a void created in part by NATO's inability to fight the insurgency adequately, a job the allies never signed up to do.
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By Dave Lieber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Dec. 10--From Afghanistan, U.S. Army Sgt. James Valenti of Mansfield wrote to The Watchdog. He is busy training Afghanistan's army and also goes on combat missions.
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Hundreds of U.S. soldiers have established their northernmost base in Afghanistan, pushing further up the border with Pakistan to block militants crossing jagged mountains, train fledgling local forces and build support among wary tribesmen.
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U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan have peaked this year at about 26,000, as officials tried to push NATO countries to take on more security responsibility, while keeping enough U.S. forces there to counter the stubborn insurgency.
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US marines have begun arriving in the Philippines to help the relief effort from storms that have left over 1,500 people dead or missing, a US military spokesman said.
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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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It was the kind of exchange that U.S. troops are counting on.
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ANCHORENA PARK, Uruguay, March 10 -- President Bush approved 8,200 more U.S. troops for Iraq and Afghanistan on top of reinforcements already ordered to those two countries, the White House said Saturday, a move that comes amid a fiery debate in Washington over the Iraq war.
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About 21,000 American soldiers, most of them from units sent to Iraq, have been treated at the biggest U.S. military hospital outside the United States since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, the hospital said Monday.
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NATO countries are sending thousands more troops to Afghanistan to help battle a surprisingly violent Taliban resurgence in the south -- the alliance's first test in ground combat for "a long, long time," NATO's top commander said yesterday.
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The United States on Tuesday dispatched about 600 Marines and Navy personnel from Okinawa to help residents in the flood-ravaged Philippines. The Pentagon said tents, water and medical supplies also were being sent.