Over the past week, hundreds of U.S. Army Rangers and Afghan commandos pushed into Afghanistan's Korengal Valley to control the high ground the enemy would need for a big attack on departing troops. Dozens of cargo helicopters hauled off equipment. By the morning of April 14, 2010, after a long, bloody occupation of the valley, the last Americans were gone.
After 5 years, U.S. leaves Afghan valley Article | KORENGAL VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN -- It was as if the five years of almost ceaseless firefights and ambushes had been a misunderstanding -- a tragic, bloody misunderstanding.
