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NORFOLK, Va. — Sailors below E-5 are temporarily barred from standing armed watches aboard Atlantic Fleet surface ships, and chiefs and up must monitor crew-served weapons stations, following four instances of negligent firearms discharges aboard separate ships since June.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A coalition service member was killed in fighting in Afghanistan’s turbulent south Sunday, while a political rival of President Hamid Karzai questioned his approach to pending talks with Taliban who might be having doubts about the insurgency.
BAGHDAD — Militants detonated a car bomb at a Baghdad military headquarters Sunday and then tried to shoot their way into the building, Iraqi officials said, killing eight people and wounding 29 in a brazen morning attack.
Republic of Korea and the United States Forces postponed a planned Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercise Sept. 4, which was to begin Sept. 5 and continue until Sept. 9, 2010.
SEOUL, South Korea —South Korea and the United States have delayed joint anti-submarine exercises off the Korean peninsula’s west coast due an approaching typhoon, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
QUETTA, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike on Saturday killed seven insurgents in a restive tribal area.
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. — At the age of 93, retired Navy Chief Warrant Officer George H. Smith remembers the events of Dec. 7, 1941, as if they were yesterday. But he can barely talk about it without breaking down.
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai said Saturday he will name the members of a council next week to pursue peace talks with insurgents willing to renounce violence, honor the Afghan constitution, and sever ties with terrorist networks.
ANKARA, Turkey — The United States’ top military officer stressed on Saturday the need for Turkey to help enforce United Nations sanctions against Iran aimed at deterring the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
Engine problems threatened to sideline the amphibious assault ship Peleliu in early August as it responded to the humanitarian crisis in Pakistan, but a team of engineers flown out from the U.S. was able to keep the ship underway.
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