Afghanistan

300 JBER troops due to arrive home

U.S. Army Alaska officials say in a statement that about 300 soldiers will arrive Tuesday evening at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

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AFGHANISTAN

US Marine from Juneau awarded medal for valor

Staff Sgt. Alec Haralovich thought he was going to die when an enemy round struck him in the side as his patrol was attacked last fall in Afghanistan. The bullet knocked him down, but to Haralovich's surprise, he wasn't even bleeding.
AFGHANISTAN

300 JBER soldiers returning from Afghanistan

Another wave of Anchorage-based soldiers is set to return from a nearly year-long deployment in Afghanistan.
MILITARY

Captive US soldier safe, says Haqqani commander

An Alaska based U.S. soldier held by Afghan militants will not be harmed despite the Obama administration's decision to declare his alleged captors a terrorist group, a senior member of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network told The Associated Press on Saturday. However, the United States and ...
AFGHANISTAN

Americans tune out war in Afghanistan as fighting rages on

The Afghanistan war generates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. It's not a hot topic at the office water cooler or in the halls of Congress -- even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting there and dying at a rate of one a day.
AFGHANISTAN

Another 50 JBER paratroopers returning from Afghanistan

About 50 paratroopers are expected to return to Anchorage late Wednesday from nearly a year's deployment in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan.
AFGHANISTAN

Texas soldier next to face charges in hazing-linked suicide

A platoon sergeant from Texas faces court-martial at Fort Bragg this week in the death of a New York soldier in Afghanistan last year. Both were based at Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks.
AFGHANISTAN

3 US Marines shot dead by Afghan man in uniform

An Afghan police officer shot and killed three U.S. Marines after sharing a meal with them before dawn today, the third attack on coalition forces by their Afghan counterparts in a week.
AFGHANISTAN

JBER soldier killed in Afghanistan

A 22-year-old Army paratrooper from Idaho based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson has been killed in Afghanistan. Spc. Ethan Jacob Martin died Tuesday when his unit was hit with small-arms fire.
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Afghan civilian casualties down, but peace remains elusive

The number of civilians killed or wounded in Afghanistan dropped 15 percent in the first six months of the year. But U.N. officials cautioned that the decrease ought not be seen as a sign that Afghanistan is becoming less violent.
AFGHANISTAN

Questions surround 'lost' Army Medal of Honor nomination

The 2009 battle of Ganjgal is perhaps the most remarkable of the Afghan war for its extraordinary heroism and incompetence. It produced dozens of casualties, career-killing reprimands and two Medal of Honor nominations, one of which vanished into a bureaucratic black hole.