February 10, 2016

"For the first time since combat operations were declared over at the end of 2014, a battalion of 500 U.S. Army infantrymen is being sent to southern Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand Province where the Taliban have made a comeback, Fox News has learned.

The decision, confirmed by defense officials, is a sign of military escalation in the country even as the Obama administration tries to draw down."

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/10/us-army-orders-hundreds-soldiers-back-to-southern-afghanistan.html?intcmp=hpbt1