NewsTalk 1290 News & Talk of Texoma » us troops http://newstalk1290.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:34:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 President Obama Announces US Troops Will Be Out of Iraq by Year's End [VIDEO] http://newstalk1290.com/president-obama-announces-us-troops-will-be-out-of-iraq-by-years-end-video/ http://newstalk1290.com/president-obama-announces-us-troops-will-be-out-of-iraq-by-years-end-video/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:34:41 +0000 Shauna Wright http://newstalk1290.com/?p=12543 In a White House briefing held Friday, President Obama announced the remaining American troops in Iraq will be home by the end of the year, closing a war effort there that has killed more than 4,400 US servicepeople and wounded 32,000 more since 2003.

“After nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over,” the president said.

The US and Iraq had been negotiating over whether several t

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/us-military-deadliest-month-afghanistan/feed/ 0 Scott Olson, Getty Images U.S. Military Airstrike Kills Insurgents That Shot Down U.S. Helicopter http://newstalk1290.com/u-s-military-airstrike-kills-insurgents-that-shot-down-u-s-helicopter/ http://newstalk1290.com/u-s-military-airstrike-kills-insurgents-that-shot-down-u-s-helicopter/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:07:42 +0000 Joshua David http://newstalk1290.com/?p=5263 Recently, we posted the story of 25 special forces members and 5 other miliary members being shot down and killed while flying in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Most notable among the casualties is reported to be several Seal Team 6 members, the U.S. Navy's special warfare

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/u-s-military-airstrike-kills-insurgents-that-shot-down-u-s-helicopter/feed/ 0 Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images 30 American Troops Killed in Afghanistan After Taliban Attack On Helicopter http://newstalk1290.com/30-american-troops-killed-in-afghanistan-after-taliban-attack-on-helicopter/ http://newstalk1290.com/30-american-troops-killed-in-afghanistan-after-taliban-attack-on-helicopter/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:00:05 +0000 Aaron Galloway http://newstalk1290.com/?p=5114 Taliban insurgents shot down an American military helicopter in Afghanistan Saturday, killing 30 American troops and 7 Afghan commandos, multiple news outlets are reporting. 

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