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TIME: Tell me how the operation in Helmand is going. General McChrystal: It's too early to predict success. They just started. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' new offensive in Afghanistan.)
The Helmand op was in the works long before you arrived. Did you just rubber-stamp it, or did you change it? I actually don't have a rubber stamp. I have to get one. I went down and sat down with the RC South commander, and I didn't...
The German government held high-level talks with top security and intelligence chiefs in Berlin on Thursday to discuss the growing threat posed by Islamic extremists and to coordinate counterterrorism measures. Intelligence officials are alarmed by the rising number of videos posted online by militant Islamists who say they are...
So far, only one Marine has been killed and several have been wounded. (In eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. soldier appears to have been captured by the Taliban in an event unrelated to the Helmand operation.) Casualty figures will probably rise, however, because the Taliban, having declined to go toe-to...
The Marines, however, are a temporary solution. They will remain in Helmand at least through the Afghan presidential elections slated for Aug. 20, when they will assist the Afghan security forces to secure polling places in anticipation of Taliban attacks. What happens beyond that, however, remains a question. "The military...