By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 – Iraq’s infrastructure is slowly improving despite years of neglect under Saddam Hussein’s Baath party and the current “costly insurgency,” a military commander said.
“The type of work we have undertaken is hard work. It takes time and constant attention,” Army Col. Deborah Lewis, commander of [...]

By Sara Wood
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 – More than 300 members of the Kansas National Guard have been activated in response to a powerful tornado that almost destroyed the town of Greensburg, Kan., May 4.
Guard members are assisting in search-and-rescue efforts in the wake of the tornado, which was classified as an [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 – Coalition and Iraqi forces detained 24 suspected terrorists in operations in Iraq yesterday and today, military officials reported.
Coalition forces detained 15 suspected terrorists today during raids around the country targeting al Qaeda in Iraq and its senior leaders.
– While targeting al Qaeda in Hillah, coalition forces conducted [...]

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 – Eighty percent of the U.S. military units involved with the surge of troops into Baghdad and western Iraq are now in place, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad yesterday.
“Four of the five American reinforcement brigades are now in Iraq,” Army Maj. Gen. [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 – Three U.S. troops were killed yesterday, two in Afghanistan and one in Iraq, and two service members were wounded yesterday in Afghanistan, military officials reported.
Two U.S. service members were killed and two others wounded yesterday when an apparent Afghan National Army soldier fired shots into their vehicles [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 – Coalition forces detained five suspected Taliban militants in Zabul province, Afghanistan, today, and Afghan civilians led coalition and Afghan security forces to a weapons cache May 5 in Paktia province, military officials reported.
Coalition forces detained the five men after a raid on a compound in the Qalat [...]

By Tim Kilbride
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 – Coalition experts have identified trouble areas in the training regimen for the Iraqi security forces but see cumulative progress overall, the top U.S. training official in Iraq said.
The Iraqi police and army are short of functioning effectively as independent institutions, Army Lt. Gen. [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2007 – Iraqi and coalition forces detained 26 suspects and seized multiple weapons caches in Iraq during several recent operations in the country, and terrorist bombers continued to strike against Iraqi civilians and security forces today.
Raids today targeting al Qaeda, a foreign fighter facilitation network and bombing networks, netted [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2007 – Afghan and coalition forces thwarted an attack in Afghanistan’s Farah province yesterday, 10 suspected Taliban were detained in a separate incident, and the Afghan border police also stopped two suicide bombers near the Pakistan border.
Afghan National Police defended the Bakwa district center in Farah province yesterday following [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2007 – Twelve U.S. service members lost their lives over the past few days while serving in Iraq, and the Defense Department has identified eight previous casualties.
– Six Task Force Lightning soldiers and a civilian journalist died after an improvised explosive device attack on their vehicle in Iraq’s Diyala [...]