Birthday of captured soldier marked
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Family and friends of captured soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit gathered Monday near the site of his abduction two months ago to mark his 20th birthday in a somber ceremony.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops have detained 16 people they say are "directly related to the attack" on May 12 in which three U.S. soldiers were apparently captured, a U.S. military official said. The body of one of the three missing soldiers was found Wednesday, floating in the Euphrates River.
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Officials in Afghanistan were trying to establish whether a seriously wounded one-legged militant captured after a gun battle was Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah.
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The victim was identified as Eugene Armstrong, an American, who was seized along with another American and a Briton.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The grandfather of an Army Reserve soldier whose platoon refused to deliver supplies in Iraq said his grandson told him yesterday that he and other soldiers had been detained by military authorities but were later released.
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A commander of Taliban guerrillas in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan was captured last week while trying to hide in a well and handed over to U.S. forces, the provincial governor said on Monday.
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The body of a man dragged from the Euphrates River south of Baghdad has been identified as Pfc. Joseph J. Anzack Jr., one of the U.S. soldiers thought to have been captured by insurgents earlier this month, the U.S. military said today.
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BAGHDAD -- An 18-year-old private earned the first Silver Star medal awarded to a soldier from the First Cavalry Division serving in Iraq, after he helped fight off a deadly guerrilla ambush in May that killed two of his companions and wounded five.
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* January 1965: US Army Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins, then 24, disappears across the Korean Peninsula&#39;s Demilitarized Zone separating North Korea and South Korea while on patrol.
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Description: The United States will release &quot;enemy combatant&quot; detainee Yaser Hamdi, who had been held in a military prison for more than two years.
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Palestinian militants who captured an Israeli soldier a year ago say he is in good health and being well treated.
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The Ministry of Defence names a British soldier who died in a minefield in Helmand province.
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Shot down in 1944, a former POW will get his Purple Heart. More than six decades later, Don Austin can recall in detail the day he was shot down on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany.
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A British soldier who died after being injured on patrol in Iraq is named by the Ministry of Defence.
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The British soldier who became the 150th member of the UK armed forces to die in Iraq is named as Cpl Rodney Wilson.
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Iraqi officials struggled today to clear up confusion over whether the most wanted member of Saddam Husseinâs ousted dictatorship had been captured in a shoot-out north of Baghdad.
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In a rare honour, a British soldier who died saving seven comrades during combat in Afghanistan has won the Victoria Cross, the nation's highest award, the Ministry of Defence told AFP Wednesday.