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WAR: About that War

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AP

[Obama's War] Bombs destroyed an Internet cafe, wrecked a bus carrying handicapped children and spread panic through Pakistan's main northwestern city on Saturday, killing at least 11 people in a day of carnage across the militancy-plagued re

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McClatchy News

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to spend $96.7 billion largely for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars after lawmakers sparred sharply over how to fight terrorists most effectively. The 368-60 vote also includes $2 billion to fight flu ou

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Reuters

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is "very serious" about a demand for foreign forces in Afghanistan to halt air raids, even though it was rebuffed by a top U.S. security official, his spokesman said. Afghans are furious about the bombing of 2

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AFP

The cost of fighting the war in Afghanistan will overtake that of the Iraq conflict for the first time in 2010, Pentagon budget documents showed. On top of the basic defense budget of $533.7 billion dollars, the White House is requesting a further 13

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NY Times

Sergeant Davis, a member of a small team of American military advisers embedded with an Iraqi Army battalion in this remote town, was dead. Minutes later, Captain Keneally learned that a soldier in that battalion, with whom the advisers had lived and

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Raw Story

The DoJ has dropped its case against 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a war resister who refused Iraq deployment in June 2006 and denounced President George W. Bush’s decision to invade as illegal and immoral.

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MSNBC

Iraq’s gay population is being targeted by militia groups in a wave of killings that has claimed the lives of up to 25 young men and boys in the past month. "They know I am gay. I don’t know if I am going to be killed, this is up to God," s

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AP

Iraq will not extend the June 30 deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from urban areas despite concerns about a resurgence of violence in recent weeks, a spokesman said. The government has insisted it is committed to the timeline laid out in a U.S.

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U.S. death toll for April rose to 18 making it the deadliest in seven months for American forces in Iraq. The increase from the previous month came as a series of bombings also pushed Iraqi deaths to their highest level this year.

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