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• Pentagon: China cancels some military contacts
Global markets voted on America's $700 billion bailout plan Monday, and if market indices are a benchmark, there was widespread pessimism. Ned Colt reports from London. WASHINGTON - China has canceled some military contacts with the Pentagon as a ...
• U.S. military under attack in Mosul; 11 die
BAGHDAD - Eleven people, including women and children, were killed Sunday after U.S. forces came under attack by gunfire and a suicide bomber during a raid in Mosul, the military said. There were no casualties among American forces. Elsewhere in the ...
• Military: Suicide bomber kills 27 in Sri Lanka
Oct. 3: Pakistan is struggling to maintain power in the Taliban stronghold of Bajour, where 8,000 Pakistani soldiers have been locked in battle for the past two months. NBC's Richard Engel reports. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A suspected rebel suicide ...
• Official: 3,000 Christians flee Iraq's Mosul
BAGHDAD - Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday ...
• Nation-building may eclipse standard warfare
The doctrine, which has generated intense debate in the U.S. military establishment and government, holds that in coming years, American troops are not likely to engage in major ground combat against hostile states as they did in Iraq and Afghanistan ...