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Niece of Arkansas woman killed in Afghanistan

Niece of Arkansas woman killed in Afghanistan share: digg facebook twitter The Department of Defense announced Saturday that Sgt. Zainah Creamer died Wednesday of injuries she sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near her unit. The 28-year-old Creamer was assigned to the 212th Military Police Detachment, Headquarters Battalion, Fort Belvoir, Va. Read more on […]

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Cold War: Afghanistan – part 1/5

1975 - 1988 Afghanistan is a war that cost the lives of almost 15000 Soviet conscripts and an estimated one million Afghans. The United States supplied billions of dollars of weapons to unlikely allies - Islamic fundamentalists. The result is a Vietnam-style conflict which takes its toll on the Soviets and hastens the end of […]

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