3,000 US Marines to Afghanistan
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he Pentagon is preparing to send at least 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan in April to bolster efforts to hold off another expected Taliban offensive in the spring
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An Army unit that had been scheduled to go to Iraq is being sent instead to Afghanistan, where fighting has increased and the U.S. troop level is at its highest of the war.
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About 1,100 troops from the elite 82nd Airborne Division are being deployed to Afghanistan to beef up security for the October 13 presidential elections, a US defense official said.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The United States will  dispatch up to 1,500 marines and a mini aircraft carrier  carrying some 20 helicopters to Sri Lanka to assist in relief  and reconstruction, a senior U.S. military officer said on  Saturday.
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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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BAGHDAD, Iraq Two more US Marines have been killed in action in Iraq&#39;s western Anbar province, bringing to ten the number of Marines killed there in the past three days.
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BARIKAW, Afghanistan  -- An explosives-rigged minivan crashed into a convoy of Marines that U.S. officials said also came under fire from militant gunmen Sunday. As many as 10 people were killed and 34 wounded as the convoy made a frenzied escape, and injured Afghans said the Americans fired on civilian cars and pedestrians as they sped away....
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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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Three U.S. marines have been killed in  action in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, the U.S. military  said in a statement on Sunday.
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_ Sources say a Marine Corps antiterrorism security team is being moved to Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, from another Middle East location to increase security at the US consulate.
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Two battalions totaling 1,500 82nd Airborne Division troops will begin flying to Iraq from Fort Bragg, NC, on Friday, triggering a major build-up of US forces to bolster security for January national elections in the country
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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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As of Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007, at least 383 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Saturday at 10 a.m. EDT.
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British forces in Afghanistan are due to hand control of Nato's International Security Assistance Force to the US.
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The US is to send up to 1,100 extra troops to Afghanistan to provide security for next month's elections.
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Some 15,000 US troops and Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced Tuesday into the Iraqi city of Fallujah from three directions to root out 3,000 insurgents.
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BRUSSELS -- Nearly 2,000 NATO troops, including two &quot;rapid response&quot; battalions from Spain and Italy, began arriving in Afghanistan this week to strengthen the international military presence there in time for the Oct. 9 presidential election, NATO officials said.