MIDEAST
Prince Harry returns from Afghanistan 
The Ministry of Defense revealed Monday that the 28-year-old prince is returning from a 20-week deployment in Afghanistan, where he served as an Apache helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps. It did not immediately divulge his exact whereabouts.
By Jill Lawless , January 21, 2013
JUST A BLUFF? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent — an action that many fear might trigger a wider war, terrorism and global economic havoc.
By Dan Perry , February 05, 2012
Last troops exit Iraq
The final withdrawal was the starkest of contrasts to the start of the war, which began before dawn on March 20, 2003. That morning, an airstrike in southern Baghdad, where Saddam Hussein was believed to be hiding, marked the opening shot of the famed “shock and awe” bombardment.
By Rebecca Santana , December 18, 2011
War costs for Iraq, Afghanistan wounded care may exceed Vietnam
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be winding down, but the long-term costs of caring for those wounded in battle is on path to rival the costs of the Vietnam War.
By Chris Adams , December 05, 2011
Medical personnel train at Mayo's 'Sim Center'
Military medical personnel have visited Rochester's Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center to hone their skills before an expected deployment to Afghanistan.
By Jeff Hansel , December 04, 2011
Iraq emerges from war a society divided by sect
Hurriyah — the name means “freedom” in Arabic — is symptomatic of much of Iraq: far quieter than at the height of the war but with an uneasy peace achieved through intimidation and bloodshed. The number of Iraqi neighborhoods in which members of the two Muslim sects live side by side and intermarry has dwindled.
By Lara Jakes , November 27, 2011
International envoys seek to restart Mideast talks
International mediators sat down with Palestinian and Israeli officials in Jerusalem today in the hope of finding a formula to restart deadlocked peace talks.
By Amy Teibel , October 26, 2011
UPDATE: Libyan rebels storm seat of Gadhafi's power
VIDEO: Rebels storm Gadhafi's compoundHundreds of Libyan rebels stormed Moammar Gadhafi's compound, charging wildly through the symbolic heart of the crumbling regime as they killed loyalist troops, looted armories and knocked the head off a statue of the besieged dictator. But they found no sign of the man himself.
By Ben Hubbard and Karin Laub , August 23, 2011
- Libya Events
- Gadhafi location
- Rebel fighter
- Gadhafi portrait hauled away
- Seif al-Islam
- Libyan rebel chief: third Gadhafi son captured
- Oil mixed as Libya conflict seems close to ending
- Libya rebels hold most of Tripoli, face resistance
- Obama says 'rule is over' for Libya's Gadhafi
- World urges Gadhafi to surrender, plans future
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Panetta in Iraq to see officials, commanders
From one war front to another Sunday, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta hopped from a U.S. outpost in Afghanistan's southern desert to Baghdad, where he sought to encourage Iraqi leaders to decide soon whether they want a residual American military force beyond year's end.
By Robert Burns , July 11, 2011
Palestinians more skeptical about Mideast talks
Palestinian officials said today that Israel's dismissive response to President Barack Obama's new Mideast peace proposal proves there's not enough common ground for meaningful negotiations.
By Karin Laub , May 21, 2011
Syrian TV says security forces, protesters clash
Syrian security forces dispersed protesters in two towns Friday, state media reported in the first official word of what appeared to be the gravest unrest in years in one of the Mideast's most repressive states.
By Bassem Mroue , March 18, 2011
U.S. troops unlikely to resume combat duties in Iraq
It would take “a complete failure” of the Iraqi security forces for the U.S. to resume combat operations there, the top American commander in Iraq said as the final U.S. fighting forces prepared to leave the country.
By Lolita C. Baldor , August 22, 2010
Winning may hinge on power of persuasion
The American Army had arrived. Taliban fighters had been pushed on the defensive with surprising ease. With U.S. attack helicopters zipping by overhead, Babur elders gathered alongside swaths of red grapes drying in the southern Afghanistan dirt to hear from the new village rulers.
By Dion Nissenbaum , August 22, 2010
Petraeus: Progress in Afghanistan will take time
Progress in Afghanistan only began this spring and needs time to take root, Army Gen. David Petraeus said in comments broadcast Sunday that were aimed at shoring up American support for the war.
By Anne Flaherty , August 16, 2010
Advocates see trouble for misdiagnosed soldiers
At the height of the Iraq war, the Army routinely dismissed hundreds of soldiers for having a personality disorder when they were more likely suffering from the traumatic stresses of war, discharge data suggests.
By Anne Flaherty , August 15, 2010
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