Soldiers

National Guard welcomes back soldiers from Afghanistan deployment
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The Ohio National Guard will welcome home 72 soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 437th Military Police Battalion during a 1 p.m. ceremony Friday, Feb. 14 at Franklin High School, 750 East 4th Street, Franklin, Ohio.The unit…

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Suddenly, it was as if a disaster movie director had screamed: Action! A platoon of soldiers, rescue vehicles and fire trucks descend on a waterlogged village hours after Labour leader Ed Miliband set foot in the 'forgotten' community
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Labour leader Ed Miliband donned his wellies to wade through the rising flood waters in Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire.

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Military policewoman, 30, was found hanged after soldiers were NOT charged for 'rape'
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Corporal Anne-Marie Ellement, left, from Bournemouth, was upset after the girlfriend of one of her alleged rapists was posted to her barracks at Bulford, Wiltshire, a new inquest into her death heard.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai provokes fury among families of British soldiers after saying troops' presence had made the country worse
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The Afghan leader said it would have been better if troops from Britain and America had not come to Afghanistan in 2001.

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Three Egyptian soldiers killed in bus attack as protest toll rises to 49
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Al Qaeda-inspired Islamist militant groups in Sinai have stepped up attacks on security forces since the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi in July.

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Egyptian soldiers killed in Sinai as protest toll rises to 49
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Gunmen killed three Egyptian soldiers in an attack on a bus in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, the military said.

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Assad's soldiers in Syria starved and tortured executed rebel prisoners, new images reveal
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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Further photographs of victims of torture by the Syrian regime have been released today.

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Fungus carried to Scotland on the feet of First World War soldiers found in grounds of former hospital nearly a century later
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Among those treated at the former Craiglockhart hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland were war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen who met there in 1917.

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Women of Power: Female IDF Soldiers Shatter Contemporary Infantry Lines
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JNS.org – From the inception of the Jewish state to the present, Israel's military has been anything but a male-dominated institution. On May 26, 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion established the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Less than three months …

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No soldiers will return to Iraq: Britain and US rule out sending troops
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A Foreign Office spokesman said ministers were ‘deeply concerned’ by events in Fallujah and Ramadi, where Al Qaeda-linked fighters have taken control.

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