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Australian troops could begin pulling out from Afghanistan in the coming months and may have exited the country almost entirely by the end of next year, Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia said Tuesday.
That would mean that most of the more than 1,500 Australian soldiers in Afghanistan could have left a year earlier than the government had previously suggested.President
Karzai: We're ready to defend our nation
That timetable puts Australian forces on a quicker withdrawal timetable than Gillard had previously described. In a speech to parliament in November, she had said that the transition in Uruzgan might well be completed before the end of 2014.
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Afghan women march in protest against violence against women in Afghanistan.
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New footage obtained by Press TV shows Afghan fighters attacking a US supply convoy in the northeastern province of Kunar.
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I would love to say I found the IED today, but I'll have to wait until I'm an 80-year-old grandpa. For now I have to tell the truth, the Afghan National Army Soldiers we were with found it. It wasn't much of a surprise, the Canadian Soldiers who are partnered with them told us last night the ANA find nine out of ten of them. It's because they've been doing it for more than six years and they know these roads and the Taliban.
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While Americans traditionally take Memorial Day to look back and remember the men who have given to their country, the women who have entered the battlefield often go unnoticed. 150 female US soldiers have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and as Amber Stone of Military Families Speaks Out says, even once off the frontline there is a war within that is never truly silenced. Stone speaks to RT about her ordeals on and off the front.
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Production of U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, taking highly accurate IDF at Patrol Base Georgetown in Kajaki Sofla, Afghanistan
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Major Robert Marchanti was executed inside Afghan's security HQ's, and his family is demanding answers.
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The state of women in Afghanistan. Under 13 percent of women in Afghanistan cannot read or write even after over ten years of war.
Hooah! 12 Rangers get Silver Stars for heroics in Afghanistan
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12 Rangers get Silver Stars for Afghan heroics - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times
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As a former U.S. Marine currently serving in the U.S. Army, I found this doc to be an eye opener.
Chronicling the exploits of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment as captured by the Soldiers themselves, the footage shot by these men was only recently declassified by the MoD. It has since been compiled to tell their story via a BBC documentary series titled "Our War".
Watch. Reel. Learn. Dedicated to us, the International Security Assistance Force, and those who did not make it home.
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