U.S. begins major Afghan assault, soldier kidnapped

2009/07/02 08:02:24 @Reuters: International News

GARMSIR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan river valley on Thursday, launching the biggest military offensive of Barack Obama's presidency. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=iaVOYs7VL-E:13agXfy-Ijs:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=iaVOYs7VL-E:13agXfy-Ijs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=iaVOYs7VL-E:13agXfy-Ijs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=iaVOYs7VL-E:13agXfy-Ijs:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=iaVOYs7VL-E:13agXfy-Ijs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/iaVOYs7VL-E" height="1" width="1"/
[ VIEW FULL COVERAGE @Reuters: International News ]