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• US, SKorea to hold further naval drills (AP)

  AP - South Korea and the United States will hold joint anti-submarine exercises in another show of force against North Korea, officials said Friday, as Pyongyang renewed threats against the drills.

  
  

• Vets With Stress Disorder More Likely to Develop Dementia (HealthDay)

  HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, are more likely to develop dementia than those without the disorder, according to researchers at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Texas.

• US looks at bolstering funding for Yemeni military (AFP)

  AFP - US commanders have proposed spending up to 1.2 billion dollars over five years on Yemen's security forces, reflecting US worries about Al-Qaeda's presence in the region, officials said Thursday.

  
  

• Iraqi army needs US help: commanders (AFP)

  AFP - Iraq cannot yet sustain its army despite having managed to quell a violent insurgency, US and local commanders told AFP, raising the prospect that American troops will stay on beyond 2011.

  
  

• Biden launches new US mission in Iraq (AFP)

  AFP - Vice President Joe Biden launched a new American military mission in Iraq on Wednesday, opening up a fresh phase in a seven-year deployment that has cost the lives of more than 4,400 US troops.

  
  

• Colorado Army post says suicide rate is falling (AP)

  AP - The suicide rate among soldiers at Fort Carson is on track to drop by about 45 percent this year compared with 2008, as the U.S. military takes steps to ease what has been an increasing problem.

• Iraq 'close' to forming new government: Biden (AFP)

  AFP - Iraq is "close" to forming a new government nearly six months after elections, US Vice President Joe Biden told CBS on Wednesday during a visit to the country.

  
  

• US forces officially begin new Iraq mission: Biden (AFP)

  AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that American forces had begun a new mission in Iraq, a day after the US combat role in the war-torn country officially came to an end.

  
  

• For Gates the US war in Iraq is over but cloud remains (AFP)

  AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that America's war in Iraq is over but admitted that the outcome will remain "clouded" by the reason it was waged in the first place.

  
  

• Biden and Gates in Iraq to mark US change of command (AFP)

  AFP - Vice President Joe Biden and Defence Secretary Robert Gates were on Wednesday to preside over a change of US military command in Iraq, after President Barack Obama declared an end to combat operations.

  
  

• Pakistan army cancels U.S. talks over security checks (Reuters)

  Reuters - Pakistan's army said on Wednesday it scrapped talks with U.S. military officials after a military delegation sent to Washington had to go through "unwarranted" airport security checks.

• Iraq pullout unlikely to push down war spending (AFP)

  AFP - Battered by a savage economic recession, many Americans -- not just supporters of President Barack Obama -- hope his decision to end combat operations in Iraq will also end the vast economic cost of the war.

  
  

• As troops withdraw, US spying scaled back in Iraq: official (AFP)

  AFP - The scaling back of the US military mission in Iraq means Washington's spies will have fewer "eyes and ears on the ground" in the country, a senior intelligence official said Tuesday.

  
  

• US spies worry about Iraq's political deadlock (AFP)

  AFP - US spy agencies view political stalemate in Iraq as the biggest threat to security in Iraq as the American military scales back its mission in the country, a senior official said on Tuesday.

  
  

• Dell spends $690,000 lobbying in 2Q (AP)

  AP - Personal computer maker Dell Inc. spent $690,000 in the second quarter to lobby the federal government on Defense Department appropriations and other issues, according to a disclosure report.

• Officials probe 10 infant deaths at NC Army base (AP)

  AP - The mysterious deaths of two infants at the same home within three months of each other has prompted a probe into eight other unexplained infant deaths at the Fort Bragg Army base since January 2007, the military said Tuesday.

• Obama ends Iraq combat effort: Time to turn page (AP)

  AP - Opposed to the war from the start, President Barack Obama on Tuesday formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq as promised, declaring: "It is time to turn the page." He said the nation's most urgent priority must be fixing its own economy.

  
  

• Obama marks the symbolic end of Iraq combat operations (AFP)

  AFP - President Barack Obama Tuesday was marking the symbolic end of US combat operations in Iraq, seven years after the 2003 US-led invasion he opposed, with the country still far from stabilized.

  
  

• Iran slams remaining US deployment in Iraq (AFP)

  AFP - Iran has dismissed as "unacceptable" the continued deployment of American troops in Iraq as US President Barack Obama was to announce on Tuesday the end of combat operations in the country.

  
  

• The Defense Department's Muslim Counterterrorists (The Daily Beast)

  The Daily Beast - In the fight over the mosque near ground zero, people forget there are thousands of Muslim Americans who protect the U.S. from terrorism, writes Department of Defense analyst Salmah Y. Rizvi.