U.S. hands major weapons supplies to Afghan army
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The Unites States handed over thousands of weapons and hundreds of vehicles to Afghanistan's fledgling national army on Thursday as part of its strategy to boost local security forces in the fight against the Taliban.
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Missing the deadline by about seven weeks, the US House of Representatives passed a 388-billion-dollar budget that contains massive military aid programs for Pakistan and Afghanistan, both key US allies in the war on terror.
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The United States will spend more than $500 billion on security this year, a high-water mark that is creating boom times in the armaments industry.
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Soldiers find major weapons caches, a bunker, and an insurgent expense report in Diyala Province.
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The U.S. military said on Sunday there had been a dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being smuggled into Iraq but no let-up in Tehran's training and financing of Iraqi militias.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that NATO allies must provide the troops and equipment needed to battle an expected increase in violence by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan this spring.
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The U.S. military's soaring demand for small-arms ammunition, fueled by two wars abroad, has left domestic police agencies less able to quickly replenish their supplies, leading some to conserve rounds by cutting back on weapons training, police officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces used artillery and air strikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said yesterday.
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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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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO agreed on Thursday to   take command of peacekeeping across all of insurgency-hit   Afghanistan next month after the United States pledged to   transfer an extra 12,000 troops to its force.
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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 U.S. military is delivering tens of thousands of pounds of relief supplies to southeast Asia, drawing on a worldwide network of ships, planes and other resources in its largest humanitarian mission in decades.
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Afghanistan gave a welcome on Thursday to U.S. plans to send an extra 3,000 troops to fight the Taliban insurgency, but Washington's move highlights divisions between Western allies over how much to commit to the country.
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Afghan authorities launch a new push to get people to hand over Stinger missiles from the 1980s war.
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The US military announced Tuesday it was sending 3,200 additional troops to Afghanistan to help counter an expected offensive by the Taliban militia and help train Afghan national soldiers.
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Former militia leaders and residents in northern Afghanistan have been stockpiling weapons in violation of disarmament laws.
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The U.S. wants more money to beef up Afghan security forces and reconstruction efforts. But it may be too late to thwart the Taliban's expected spring offensive