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    June 17, 2017
    Official: Seven U.S. soldiers wounded in insider attack at Afghan base
    MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan - At least one Afghan was killed and seven American soldiers were wounded in an "insider attack" at a base in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, a U.S. military official said. A spokesman for the U.S. military command in Kabul said earlier comments by an...
    NewsJune 17, 2017 - 2:18pm
    June 12, 2017
    Afghan soldier kills 3 US soldiers, US official says
    Three US soldiers were killed and another wounded during a joint US-Afghan military operation Saturday in Nangarhar province, US officials told...
    NewsJune 12, 2017 - 6:09pm
    May 26, 2017
    Submitted Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Kahler was well-respected and liked by his fellow soldiers, and his death Jan. 26, 2008, dealt a "body blow" to the troops, according to author Gregg Zoroya.
    'Chosen Few' tells story of sacrifice: YME grad among those who gave his life for country
    Matthew Kahler gave his life leading one of the most decorated units in the Afghanistan conflict. Sgt. 1st Class Kahler, a 1997 graduate of...
    News/regionMay 26, 2017 - 6:45pm
    April 16, 2017
    National Security Adviser Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster listens as U.S. President Donald Trump makes the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida U.S. February 20, 2017. REUTERS / Kevin Lamarque
    In Afghanistan, Trump aide promises coordinated response to enemies
    KABUL - President Donald Trump's national security adviser met Afghan officials in Kabul on Sunday and said the new administration was weighing...
    NewsApril 16, 2017 - 12:32pm
    April 15, 2017
    The GBU-43/B, also known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast, detonates during a test U.S., Nov. 21, 2003, at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida. U.S. Air Force photo / Reuters
    Former Afghan president calls decision to drop massive U.S. bomb "treason"
    KABUL - Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai accused his successor on Saturday, April 15, of committing treason by allowing the U.S. military...
    NewsApril 15, 2017 - 9:39am
    April 13, 2017
    The GBU-43/B, also known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast, detonates during a test at Eglain Air Force Base, Florida, U.S., November 21, 2003 in this handout photo provided April 13, 2017. REUTERS/U.S. Air Force photo/Handout via REUTERS
    U.S. strike kills an al Qaeda 'leader' in Afghanistan
    WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said on Saturday a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan this week killed an al Qaeda militant who was responsible for the...
    NewsApril 13, 2017 - 2:06pm
    The GBU-43/B is launched from a MC-130E Combat Talon I at Eglain Air Force Base in Florida on November 21, 2003. REUTERS/U.S. Air Force photo/Handout/File photoplay button
    U.S. unleashes 'mother of all bombs' for first time in Afghanistan
    WASHINGTON - The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan...
    NewsApril 13, 2017 - 12:04pm
    September 20, 2016
    Federal Agents walk near the site where Ahmad Khan Rahami, sought in connection with a bombing in New York, was taken into custody in Linden, New Jersey, U.S., September 19, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
    U.S. probing Afghan-born bomber's motive, foreign travel
    LINDEN, N.J.—U.S. investigators are looking for clues to why an Afghanistan-born man might have planted bombs around the New York area...
    News/nationSeptember 20, 2016 - 8:21pm
    March 26, 2015
    Minnesota Guardsman charged with producing child porn while in Afghanistan
    LAKEVILLE — A Minnesota National Guardsman from Lakeville was indicted Wednesday on one count of producing child pornography while deployed in Afghanistan. A U.S. judge ordered 28-year-old Andrew L. Schiller detained pending trial. He is accused of chatting on Skype with a 14-year-old...
    News/nationMarch 26, 2015 - 9:00am
    August 5, 2014
    U.S. general killed, 14 wounded in Afghan academy attack: officials
    An Afghan soldier killed a U.S. general and wounded 14 coalition troops in a machine gun attack at a military training facility in Kabul, a top Western and senior Afghan official said on Tuesday.
    News/nationAugust 5, 2014 - 12:35pm
    June 13, 2014
    U.S. Army says Bergdahl condition stable, has not met parents
    SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner of war before being released on May 31, was in stable condition at a military hospital in Texas and has not yet met his parents, military officials said on Friday. Bergdahl,...
    News/nationJune 13, 2014 - 3:45pm
    June 3, 2014
    People wave signs for their loved ones Tuesday as the buses full of soldiers arrive at the Civic Center in Litchfield. Tribune photo by Kyle Rozendaal
    Welcome home 849th: Members of Litchfied-based National Guard unit return after 11 months in Afghanistan
    LITCHFIELD —The parking lot filled with vehicles, tissues were passed around and tensions were high as people waited for the buses to arrive. The...
    News/regionJune 3, 2014 - 11:26pm
    May 31, 2014
    Undated image from video footage taken from a Taliban-affiliated website shows a man who says he is Private First Class Bowe R. Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier captured by the Taliban in southeastern Afghanistan in late June. CREDIT: REUTERS VIA REUTERS
    U.S. soldier freed in Afghanistan, five Taliban prisoners to leave Guantanamo
    (Reuters) - The last U.S. prisoner of war from America's waning Afghan war was handed over to U.S. Special Operations forces inAfghanistan on...
    News/nationMay 31, 2014 - 6:21pm
    May 30, 2014
    Marlys Anderson continues to give back to those serving our country overseas by leading “Caps for Soldiers." Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny
    Caps for Soldiers continues to give back
    PENNOCK — One soldier in Afghanistan believes it saved his life. He wore two of the wool caps on a very cold day. He’s convinced the thickness...
    News/localMay 30, 2014 - 11:07pm
    July 16, 2013
    People line the street Tuesday as 95 members of the Litchfield-based 849th Mobility Augmentation Company depart for training at Ft. Bliss, Texas. The soldiers will later deploy to Afghanistan. Tribune photo by Kayla Prasek
    National Guard soldiers deploy from Litchfield, Minn.
    LITCHFIELD - Friends, family members and supporters of the Minnesota National Guard 849th Mobility Augmentation Company lined the streets of...
    News/regionJuly 16, 2013 - 11:14pm
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