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A 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion Marine and LAV-25 in Iraq during June 2008. The United States Marine Corps Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalions, or LAR Battalions, are fast and mobilized armored terrestrial reconnaissance units that conduct reconnaissance-in-force (RIF) ahead of the battalion landing teams or division infantry forces.
Operation Strike of the Sword or Operation Khanjar was a US-led offensive in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.About 4,000 Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade as well as 650 Afghan troops were involved, supported by NATO planes.
From May 1996, Osama bin Laden had been living in Afghanistan along with other members of al-Qaeda, operating terrorist training camps in a loose alliance with the Taliban. [1] Following the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa, the US military launched cruise missiles at these camps with limited effect on their overall operations.
The Congressional Gold Medal ceremony took place just one day before America marks the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 in New York City, northern ...
The Pentagon warned of deteriorating security in Afghanistan in the second half of 2015 and a rise in the number of effective strikes by Taliban insurgents.
In the 45 days after the agreement (between 1 March and 15 April), the Taliban conducted more than 4,500 attacks in Afghanistan, which showed an increase of more than 70% as compared to the same period in the previous year. [419] More than 900 Afghan security forces were killed in the period, up from about 520 in the same period a year earlier.
In 2008, NATO forces in southeastern Afghanistan deployed sub-company-sized patrols to the Pakistan border to disrupt supplies flowing to the Taliban from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. [4] They established small patrol bases, which came under regular attack by Taliban forces. [15] Rock Move OPLAN July 8–9, 2008.
The seizure of Kandahar and Herat, the country's second- and third-largest cities, marks the biggest prizes yet for the Taliban.