AFGHANISTAN MOUNTAINS — U.S. Army soldiers maneuver a Humvee up a path in the mountains of Parwan province in Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2006. The soldiers are from the 561st Military Police Company, Fort Campbell, Ky., attached to the 10th Mountain Division. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Dexter D. Clouden

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Wal-Mart aside, October sales seen solid for U.S. chains
Core inflation up 0.2 percent in September
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CENTCOM: News Releases
ISF CAPTURES IED CELL

AFGHANISTAN CELEBRATES OPENING OF COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE

TERRORISTS KILLED DURING RAID IN BALAD

FOUR MEN APPREHENDED IN KIDNAPPING CASE

AIR STRIKES THWART TERRORIST AMBUSHES

AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY, POLICE TRAIN AT THE JOINT READINESS TRAINING CENTER

IA CONDUCTS OPERATION TO CAPTURE AN IED, WEAPONS CACHE

BUILDING FIRE AT AL ASAD, IRAQ

COALITION FORCES ESTABLISH NEW SECURITY STATION IN RAMADI

ONE TERRORIST KILLED, 10 OTHERS DETAINED

IRAQI POLICE DISCOVER LARGE WEAPONS CACHE WITH LOCAL HELP

COALITION HELICOPTER MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING

AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY, POLICE CONTINUE PREPARATION FOR TRAINING IN U.S.

MND-B SOLDIERS DETAIN 9 TERRORISTS, SEIZE WEAPONS

MND-B SOLDIERS ELIMINATE DEATH SQUAD

IA, MND-B SOLDIERS ENTER OMS BUILDING, ADJACENT STRUCTURE IN ATTEMPT TO FIND MISSING SOLDIER

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NEWS UPDATES
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ON THE GROUND
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U.S., Iraqi Soldiers Uncover Weapons Caches - Story - Photos

IN IRAQ
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Iraqi Army Non-commissioned Officers Graduate
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Engineers Help Fortify Iraqi Police Headquarters
Center Gives Iraqis Place to Voice Concerns
Iraqi Army Training Centers Prepare for Influx

IN AFGHANISTAN
Specialist Delivers Supplies, Hope to Students
Agha Jon School Reopens After Taliban Torching

BACKGROUND
IRAQ
Renewal In Iraq
Iraq: Security, Stability
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (PDF)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Weekly Reconstruction Report (PDF)
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
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

CASUALTIES
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

National Hurricane Center

Today in History
1270 - The 8th - and final - Crusade is launched.
1888 - The first ballpoint pen is patented.
1905 - With the "October Manifesto," Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties.
1918 - Slovakia asks for the creation of a Czechoslovakian state.
1919 - Baseball league presidents call for the abolishment of the spitball.
1922 - In Italy, Mussolini forms his cabinet.
1930 - Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship.
1938 - Orson Welles panics a nation with the broadcast of "War of the Worlds."
1939 - The U.S.S.R. and Germany agree on partitioning Poland.
1941 - The Germans torpedo the USS Reuben James, despite the fact that the U.S. is not involved in the war.
1944 - Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen.
1945 - The U.S. government announces the end of shoe rationing.
1948 - In Donora, Pennsylvania, smog kills 20 and sickens 6,000.
1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C. Marshall win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1954 - The Defense Department announces the elimination of all segregated regiments.
1956 - Israel captures the Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad.
1961 - The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
1961 - The Soviet Union tests a 58-megaton hydrogen bomb.
1965 - Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia.
1967 - The U.S.S.R.'s Kosmos 186 and 188 make the first automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch.
1975 - Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain; the NY Daily News runs the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead."
1976 - Jane Pauley becomes the news co-anchor of the Today show.
1979 - NASA launches the space vehicle S-203.
1980 - Honduras and El Salvador settle their boundary dispute; NASA launches Satcom-4.
1985 - The 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A; Challenger 9) is launched.
1991 - A Middle East peace conference begins in Madrid, Spain.

Birthdays
1735 - John Adams, Declaration of Independence signer, second U.S. President (1797-1801)
1821 - Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist / short-story writer
1830 - Confederate Major-General John S. Bowen
1873 - Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13)
1893 - Charles Atlas, body builder
1918 - Ted Williams, Baseball great (Red Sox - AL MVP '46, '49; Triple Crown '42, '47)
1939 - Grace Slick, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit)
1946 - Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson, USN/astronaut (STS 41B, 61C, 27)
1969 - Brittany Gae Thompson, Miss Oregon-America (1991)

Passings
1893 - Sir John Abbott, PM of Canada (1891-92)
1991 - William Shea (Shea Stadium namesake)

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Page, Jasper N., USAF (MS); first to escape out of SVN, November, 1965 - alive and well as of 1998

1973
Sakamoto, Hideako (Japan); released January, 1974