KABUL, Afghanistan — A firefight broke out between U.S. forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing two Americans and three Afghan soldiers and pushing the number of U.S. troops killed in the long-running war 2,000. The fighting started Saturday when what is believed to have been a mortar fired by insurgents […]
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F. Sanborn: Washington leaders failed
It is beyond my comprehension why there is no intestinal fortitude to be found in Washington. What should take place is that if any embassy is attacked, by anybody, it should be closed and the diplomat brought home. It takes the target away. Also, all U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan tomorrow, then they […]
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Afghan insider attack kills 4
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan police officer turned his gun on NATO troops at a remote checkpoint in the south of the country before dawn Sunday, killing four American troops, according to Afghan and international officials. It was the third attack by Afghan forces or insurgents disguised in military uniforms against international forces in as […]
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Newry military mom leads soldier bandana project
“I’m trying to make it a little easier for our boys across the pond,” said Deborah Rafford, a stay-at-home wife and mother of three sons in the military. “I want our guys to know they are not being forgotten.” In her Newry home, surrounded by hundreds of books written by returning soldiers, clippings of newspapers […]
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American Legion presents blue-star banner to father of wounded soldier
LIVERMORE FALLS — American Legion Commander Joceyln Mosher-Collins presented a father of a wounded soldier a Blue Star Service Banner during a 9/11 and patriot remembrance ceremony Tuesday night. “It is an American tradition to display a Blue Star Service Banner in the window of a home when a loved one is proudly serving in […]
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Dixfield library adopts Army Airborne unit in Afghanistan
DIXFIELD — Somewhere at a secret location in Afghanistan, 12 men and five women with the Army Airborne are thrilled to learn they’ve got mail. Ludden Memorial Library adopted the Special Forces unit last week after learning recently that one of the unit’s soldiers is Kerry Leonard-Stafford. She is the niece of library employee Cathy […]
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Afghan militants hit U.S. military chief’s plane
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents fired rockets into an American base in Afghanistan and damaged the parked plane of the visiting chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, the U.S.-led military coalition said Tuesday. The general was safe in his quarters at the time but had to take another aircraft out of the country. […]
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Wounded soldier improving; benefits planned
LIVERMORE FALLS — U.S. Army military policewoman Sgt. Helaina Lake is getting around in a wheelchair and is able to get herself in and out of bed at the military hospital in Maryland, her father, Bernal Lake, said Monday. Sgt. Lake, a 2007 Livermore Falls High School graduate, was seriously injured in a suicide bombing […]
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Last Run for the Fallen held
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — What could be the last “Run for the Fallen” road race to raise money for families of Maine military personnel killed in combat featured more than 200 runners. The participants, escorted by Maine State Police cruisers, departed Sunday morning from Ogunquit for the run up U.S. 1 to the finish line […]
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Insurgents shoot down Black Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan: Seven from U.S. among 11 killed
KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S. military helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing seven Americans and four Afghans in one of the deadliest air disasters of a war now into its second decade. The Taliban claimed they gunned down the Black Hawk. American service personnel […]