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Special ops, CIA: First in, last out of Afghanistan

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 05:06 PM PDT


FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- They were the first Americans into Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks and will probably be the last U.S. forces to leave.
As most American troops prepare to withdraw in 2014, the CIA and military special operations forces ...

Syrian forces fire into crowd; 5 die

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 05:27 PM PDT

BEIRUT -- More than 50,000 mourners marched through the capital of Syria's Kurdish heartland Saturday in a funeral procession for one of the country's most prominent opposition figures a day after his assassination. Security forces fired into the cro ...

Security issues delay pullout of Iraq army

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 05:27 PM PDT

BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi army was supposed to pull out of the nation's cities by the end of this year but is delaying the pullback over security concerns, the Iraqi military spokesman said Saturday.The delay is an acknowledgment that even after four year ...

Libya revolutionaries claim gains in loyalist Sirte

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 05:26 PM PDT

SIRTE, Libya -- Libyan revolutionary forces claimed to have captured parts of a sprawling convention center that loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi have used as their main base in the ousted leader's hometown and were shelling the city to try to rout snipe ...

Egyptian Christians fear Muslim pressure

Posted: 08 Oct 2011 05:26 PM PDT

CAIRO -- On her first day to school, 15-year-old Christian student Ferial Habib was stopped at the doorstep of her new high school with clear instructions: either put on a headscarf or no school this year.Habib refused. While most Muslim women in Egy ...

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