By Dave Moller Senior Staff Writer An Iraq War veteran who got fed up with people using soldiers and sailors for political gain has formed a college group to battle for them. Nevada City native Erik Christensen served in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division and was part of the 2003 invasion of...
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"Liberal Iraqi MP Mithal Alusi’s family home in West Baghdad's Hai Al-Jam’ia neighborhood was reduced to rubble this morning after terrorists had rigged the structure with explosives in an apparent assassination attempt. Alusi,...
The Star’s Washington correspondent WASHINGTON | The room was full of military families as Muppets sang new “Sesame Street” songs aimed at preschoolers with parents in faraway Iraq and Afghanistan. But organizers and parents...
WASHINGTON — Top Pentagon leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so, according to a senior military official....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Both U.S. presidential candidates have proposed sending more troops to fight the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, where more foreign soldiers have died than in Iraq the past two months. NATO...