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Offensive in the former Taliban stronghold

Afghan and combined forces continue to encounter “small, but determined pockets of resistance,” often from bunkers or other fortified positions

It's important for us to professionalize women in the army

Political prisoner’s death highlights barbaric conditions and an alarming death toll in Cuba’s prisons

Flogging a dead horse, Two state solution

the 66th MPs took ownership of the 'on the FOB training' mission, from the 287th MP Co

The Oslo Accords would play a crucial role in the rise of Islamist terrorism, Dark road of appeasement

A Culture Clash with Islam By | February 22, 2010
The harsh reality is that you cannot negotiate with people who want to kill you

The tools which the Moscow elite use are as current as the Internet and YouTube, and their goal is as old as Lenin and the Bolsheviks

Whispers By Michael Yon | February 22, 2010
Around Afghanistan

Che Guevara on IPhone By | February 22, 2010
Missing Iphone quote: "Don't Shoot! I'm Che! I'm worth to you more alive than dead!"

The cooperative effort required extensive planning, but with the partnership of both forces, it ended in success

Carlson also examined the current route structure and determined that doing it the FedEx way

Alexander Tarazona set off on a rapid new path that would take him from the Colombian army

The tradition of non-citizens dedicating themselves to faithfully serve in the U.S. military is as old as U.S. history itself

Adam Ray By Michael Yon | February 18, 2010
Culverts, bombs, IEDs

The Obama administration has an almost unbroken record of abandoning our allies and strategic positions

"This was a maintenance issue, not a design issue"

UCI is a hotbed of anti-West activity, a hornet nest

The troops also confiscated several thousand Iraqi dinar and an Iraqi gas mask

The smile of a psychopath or a saint

The Iranian leadership does not respect and does not fear Barack Obama

The local ANA corps cmdr used air assets to transport local civilians in Farah prov.

Patterns By Michael Yon | February 15, 2010
Arghandab, Afghanistan

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Islam is the key to just about all terrorism and anti-Semitism in the world today

We have to work together because security is a prerequisite for development to come

Two days before the king's disengagement speech, Jordan’s Ministry of Interior had issued disengagement instructions comprising 22 articles

Pakistan and India, Terrorism, Security, Mumbai Terrorists

School Inaugurated in Herat By | February 12, 2010
Forty-five schools have been built in Herat prov.

FLASHPOINT: IRAN