U.S., Libya Restore Diplomatic Relations - Story
Officials Release More Names of Detainees - Story
Rockets Injure Afghans; IED Makers Held - Story
Coalition Forces in Iraq Kill, Detain Terrorists - Story
Casey: Iraqis 'Hopeful About Their Future' - Commentary

IRAQIS TAKE THE LEAD
Tank Brigade Assumes Combat Responsibility - Story - On Assignment

REBUILDING IRAQ
Al-Amarah Province Fire Station Renovated - Story

ON THE GROUND
New Radio Station Opens in Afghan Province - Story
Army Secretary Harvey Visits Troops in Iraq - Story
Marines Aid Wounded, Ailing Iraqi Civilians - Story

IN IRAQ
Quick Reaction Force Secures Ops Areas
4th Infantry Division Troops Can See Kids Graduate

IN AFGHANISTAN
Soldier Runs 5K Race to Honor Grandmother
Army Chief of Staff Visits U.S., Afghan Troops

IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Task Force Commander Thanks Military Spouses
U.S. Trains Djiboutians in Border Security

FACE OF DEFENSE
War Steers Airman to Medicine - Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Trio Riding for America's Patriots - Story
'Soldier Ride' Takes Off

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
Six Servicemembers Killed
U.S. Troops Conduct Patrol
Terrorists Kill Civilians in Baghdad
Transition Teams Mentor Iraqis
Council Discusses Security
Iraqi Calls for Cultural Awareness
Renewal In Iraq
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq (PDF)
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (PDF)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
IED Injures Two Afghan Civilians
U.S. General Notes Progress
Air Strike Kills 4 Enemy Fighters
'Mountain Lion' Roars Into Valley
Afghan Police Discover IED
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Decatur Joins French-Led Force
House Votes on Border Security
Submarine USS Memphis Deploys
Rumsfeld Cites Intel Challenges
Guam Unit Trains for OEF Duty
Fact Sheet: Budget Request
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Guard Likely to Get Border Tasking
Carrier Hosts Moroccan Dignitaries
National Guard Responds to Floods
Top Doc Talks Mental Health Issues
Pentagon Channel Marks 2nd Year
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Defense Officials Identify Casualties - Story

Weather
Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut
An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
1770 - Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France.
1863 - At the Battle of Champion's Hill, Union General Grant repels the Confederates, driving them into Vicksburg.
1868 - President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during impeachment by one vote.
1879 - The Treaty of Gandamak (Russia / England) sets up the Afghan state.
1920 - Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome.
1943 - A Royal Air Force squadron destroys two river dams in Germany; Germans launch Operation Gypsy Baron.
1951 - Chinese Communist Forces launch a second step, fifth-phase offensive, gaining as much as 20 miles of territory.
1960 - A Big Four summit in Paris collapses in the wake of the USSR's downing of an American U-2 spy plane.
1963 - Gordon Cooper returns to Earth, after Project Mercury's last mission.
1968 - U.S. Navy Corpsman Donald E. Ballard earns the Medal of Honor for action in Quang Tri Province. When his unit was ambushed, an enemy soldier tossed a grenade into the midst of his unit and wounded men. He pulled the grenade under his body to sheild them. Fortunately, if failed to explode.

Birthdays
1801 - William Henry Seward, U.S. Secretary of State.
1824 - Edmund Kirby-Smith, CSA General.
1912 - Studs Terkel, author / historian.

Passings
1932 - Ki Imukai, premier of Japan, murdered.
1957 - Eliot Ness, of "The Untouchables" fame.
1989 - Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered.
1996 - Pierre Debizet, residtance fighter / special agent.
1996 - Mike Jeremy Boorda, NATO commandant, suicide.

Reported Missing in Action
1968
Crosson, Gerald J., USAF (NY); F4D shot down (w/Rickel)

Rickel, David J., USAF (FL); F4D shot down (w/Crosson)

Roark, Anund C., US Army (CA); KIA - threw self on grenade to protect comrades (w/Romine) - remains returned May, 1968

Romine, Albert W., US Army (KS); KIA in grenade explosion - remains returned May, 1968 - ID'd November, 1979

1970
Conner, Edwin Ray, USN (TX); EKA3B crashed at sea (w/Skeen), Killed / BNR

Skeen, Richard Robert, USN (CA); EKA3B crashed at sea (w/Conner), Killed / BNR

1971
The following US Army personnel reported MIA when their UH1H crashed, all Killed / BNR:
Crook, Elliott (AZ); crewchief

Farlow, Craig L. (OH); aircraft commander

Jacobson, Timothy J. (CA); door gunner

Nolan, Joseph P., Jr. (IL); pilot