”3rd” News

General eyes troop reduction in Iraq

WASHINGTON - Gen. David Petraeus said Monday he has recommended to President Bush that the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq begin this month with the departure of a California-based Marine unit.
09 11 2007 10:19AM (...more)

US to withdraw 3,500 troops from Iraq

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military said on Tuesday it will shortly withdraw 3,500 soldiers who were deployed in Iraq as part of the controversial "surge" in February last year.
05 6 2008 8:50PM (...more)

Wireless Evolution Accelerates As 4G Arrives In Barcelona

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain , which got under way Monday, the focus of large carriers and infrastructure providers has shifted definitively to so-called "fourth generation" wireless broadband technology , or 4G.
02 12 2008 8:05PM (...more)

US Marines sweep 'Taliban' villages for home-made bombs

KOTALAK, Afghanistan (AFP) – An elderly Afghan woman, her hair dyed red and a black shawl draped over her shoulders, shouts as she aims a gun at US Marines who are arresting her husband as a suspected Taliban insurgent. A Marine
10 12 2009 3:51PM (...more)

US Marines sweep 'Taliban' villages for bombs

KOTALAK, Afghanistan (AFP) – An elderly Afghan woman, her hair dyed red and a black shawl draped over her shoulders, shouts as she aims a gun at US Marines who are arresting her husband as a suspected Taliban insurgent. A Marine
10 11 2009 11:09PM (...more)

'Gooooood mornin' Afghanistan!' US fights Taliban on airwaves

GOLESTAN, Afghanistan (AFP) – "You're listening to W.IED 102.5 FM 'the bomb'," joked Staff Sergeant Todd Bowers as he slotted another cassette of religious chants into his 10 7 2009 11:25AM (...more)

New fight: Unit preps for Afghanistan sans tanks

DAHLONEGA, Ga. – Drenched in sweat, Army Capt. Aaron Hall peeled off his soggy socks and applied a liberal dose of foot powder before slipping on a dry pair and rallying his troops back to their throbbing feet. For an outfit used to being ferried from fight to fight in 09 25 2009 5:00PM (...more)

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,265

As of Friday, April 3, 2009, at least 4,265 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At
04 4 2009 8:54PM (...more)

Lawyer: Chemical-weapon law misapplied in Pa. case

PHILADELPHIA – The federal government overreached when it used an anti-terrorism law to prosecute a jealous lab technician who tried to harm her husband's mistress by leaving deadly chemicals on a door handle at her home and in the tailpipe of her car, a defense attorney argued on appeal
03 24 2009 4:36PM (...more)

AP IMPACT: Back from Iraq, Killer Blue looks ahead

FORT HOOD, Texas – On his first morning home from Iraq , Lt. Rusty Morris woke at dawn, next to his wife, their son tucked between them. Loyal, who was just a baby when Morris deployed 15 months earlier, touched his father's face and ears
03 17 2009 10:46AM (...more)