By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2007 – More than 600 Texas National Guardsmen were activated by the state’s governor Jan. 22 to support a surge operation targeting crime and international drug and human trafficking along the state’s 1,200-mile border with Mexico.
The soldiers are activated in support of Operation Wrangler, an [...]

By Kathleen T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2007 – The United States will track down al Qaeda operatives wherever they try to find safe haven, including in the Horn of Africa, a senior Defense Department official said today.
“We have, for some time, been concerned about al Qaeda operating in that region, and that’s [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2007 – Insurgents fired on a U.S. patrol operating in Baghdad today, killing one soldier and wounding two more. In addition, Defense Department officials released the identities of 12 servicemembers killed in a helicopter crash Jan. 20.
The deceased soldiers’ unit was participating in a combined security operation near Baghdad’s [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2007 – Two U.S. Marines were killed yesterday during operations in western Iraq, and defense officials have released the name of a soldier who died supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
A Marine assigned to 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group and another Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died from [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2007 – Several insurgents were captured and a weapons cache was found during a combined security operation that was kicked off today in the Haifa Street area of Baghdad, officials said.
Seven suspected insurgents have been detained and a weapons cache uncovered as Iraqi army, Iraqi national police and coalition [...]

By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2007 – Citing freedom’s progress in the Middle East, the ambitions of a thinking and determined enemy and the consequences of failure in Iraq, President Bush tonight urged Congress in his State of the Union Address to support a strategy of victory in Iraq.
“On this day, [...]

By Sara Wood
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2007 – An Army sergeant who was awarded the Silver Star for his valiant actions in Iraq was honored by President Bush at the annual State of the Union Address here tonight.
Sgt. Tommy Rieman, who is now an administrative assistant for the Army personnel office in the [...]

By Sara Wood
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2007 – Emphasizing that failure in Iraq would be grievous and far-reaching, President Bush said tonight that American leaders must work together to set the conditions for success in the long war against terrorism.
“The war on terror we fight today is a generational struggle that will continue [...]

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2007 – The senior officers of two military services told a congressional committee today that although soldiers and Marines are performing well overseas in the war against terrorism, more troops and money are needed to refurbish non-deployed military forces.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker [...]

By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2007 – U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 100 terrorists, detained 50, and dismantled a large terrorist group in January during Operation Turki Bowl, the senior U.S. Army officer in Iraq’s Diyala province said yesterday.
The operation, conducted from Jan. 4 to 13, occurred south of Balad Ruz [...]