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APNewsBreak: Army to cut combat brigades

WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. officials say the Army plans to slash its number of combat brigades from 45 to as low as 32, and broadly restructure its fighting force as part of the effort to cut the size of the service by about 80,000 soldiers. Officials say the sweeping changes probably will increase the size [...]

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Assad’s forces shell Syria villages for hours

AMMAN, Jordan?? French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Friday called on the U.N. Security Council to act against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, as his forces used sustained shelling against people involved in the eight-month uprising for the first reported time. Only on msnbc.com [...]

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