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8 Years in Afghanistan
President Obama gathered his national security team for another strategy session on Afghanistan on Wednesday, eight years after the war started and as a new poll shows public support for the war declining. Launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to defeat the Taliban and rid Al Qaeda of a home base, the war has lasted longer than initially envisioned.
- July 21, 2006: A German International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier guards a U.S. C130 Hercules plane as NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, not seen, visits NATO expansion preparations for southern Afghanistan, in Tarin Kot, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.read moreAP2006Share
- A U.S. solider sits on a humvee as Afghan boys look on during a free medical camp organized by U.S. army in Khakar village in Lagman, southeastern Afghanistan, Thursday, April 12, 2007. Khakar is what the Americans call a "swing village." Given sustained security and assistance it might well side with the government; without them, it goes the way of the insurgents. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)read moreAP2007Share
- An unidentified U.S. Marines soldier, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, doing push ups at forward operating base near the town of Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan Sunday, July 6, 2008. The U.S. Defense Department has extended the combat tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)read moreAP2008Share
- Sept. 25, 2009: U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brad Hollingsead, left, Lt. Rick Chersicla, center, and Capt. Brian Moran, all of 4th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery Regiment from Fort Drum, N.Y., brace themselves as a helicopter lands at their combat outpost in the Jalrez Valley in Afghanistan's Wardak Province.read moreAP2008Share
- Sept. 25, 2009: U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brad Hollingsead, left, Lt. Rick Chersicla, center, and Capt. Brian Moran, all of 4th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery Regiment from Fort Drum, N.Y., brace themselves as a helicopter lands at their combat outpost in the Jalrez Valley in Afghanistan's Wardak Province.read moreAP2009Share
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8 Years in Afghanistan
President Obama gathered his national security team for another strategy session on Afghanistan on Wednesday, eight years after the war started and as a new poll shows public support for the war declining. Launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to defeat the Taliban and rid Al Qaeda of a home base, the war has lasted longer than initially envisioned.
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