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WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that sending U.S. Marines to Afghanistan will keep pressure on the Taliban and doesn’t “reflect dissatisfaction” with NATO countries’ performance. He was trying to smooth over comments a day earlier that sparked an international furor. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that …

WASHINGTON – WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday against four British men who contend they were systematically tortured and their religious rights abused throughout their two-year detention at Guantanamo Bay. In a suit against ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and individual U.S. military officials, the four British men …

Several of the U.S.’s NATO allies were in an uproar following comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in which he criticized NATO countries fighting in Afghanistan of lacking proper experience in counter-insurgency warfare, according to a report in the Times of London on Wednesday. Click here for more on …