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The Dallas Morning News -- The Pentagon confirmed Sunday that a U.S. soldier captured by the Taliban and shown in a video released Saturday is Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho.

The 28-minute video shows Bergdahl in apparent good condition, with a shaved head, a stubble of beard and dressed in a traditional Afghan loose shirt and tunic.

Responding to prompts from his captors, Bergdahl calls for U.S. forces to be returned home and expresses his worry that he may never again see his family.

He was shown eating at one point and sitting cross-legged. He choked up when discussing his family and his hope to marry his girlfriend.

BBC -- L/Cpl Christopher Roney, 23, from Sunderland, of A Company, 3rd Battalion The Rifles was wounded in Sangin on 21 December and died a day later.

His death and L/Cpl Michael Pritchard's - in a separate suspected friendly fire incident - are being investigated.

His wife Lorna and family said he was "born a legend, died a hero".

DoD News -- Pfc. Serge Kropov, 21, died as a result of a non-hostile incident in Helmand province in Afghanistan, according to the military.

Kropov was a native of Hawley, Pa., before joining the Marines. He was assigned to the Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Force at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

Kropov's death is under investigation, according to the military. No other details about Kropov's death were immediately available.

Los Angeles Times -- A Marine from Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego has died in Afghanistan from a "nonhostile incident," the Pentagon announced.

Pfc. Serge Kropov, 21, died in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, where Marines have been assigned to oust Taliban fighters and win support from the local populace.

Kropov, from Hawley, Pa., enlisted in 2006 and had served in Iraq. He was a helicopter airframe mechanic assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 16,  3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, part of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.

His death Sunday is under investigation.

(Washington DC) A soldier from Chicago has been killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan.

Military officials said today 27-year-old Army Sergeant Albert D. Ware died December 18th in Arghandab River Valley of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive.

Ware was assigned to the 782nd Combat Support Battalion, Fourth Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Kentucky Post – Family, friends and a grateful community paid their last respects Tuesday to a Cincinnati police officer and Air Force sergeant killed while serving in Afghanistan.

Hundreds attended the visitation Tuesday morning for Tech Sgt. Anthony C. "Tony" Campbell, who was killed while trying to disarm an improvised explosive device last week. The Air Force Tech Sgt. was serving in Afghanistan as an explosive ordinance disposal specialist.

MIDDLETOWN — A Waterbury Marine who died four days before his 22nd birthday from injuries he sustained in Afghanistan was buried with full military honors Thursday in the State Veterans’ Cemetery.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Xhacob LaTorre was wounded Aug. 10 when an improvised explosive device detonated as he was conducting combat operations in Helmand Province. He was brought to Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, where he died Dec. 8.

News Herald -- A Panama City native has died of injuries suffered at war in Afghanistan, the Army said Thursday.

Staff Sgt. Dennis J. Hansen died Monday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, military officials said. The 31-year-old sergeant was a husband and a father of three young children.

Hansen was wounded in a Dec. 3 blast in Afghanistan’s Logar province, according to the Army. Kerry Buchenroth, who identified himself as Hansen’s uncle, told the Bellefontaine (Ohio) Examiner that Hansen was clearing the second floor of a building when an improvised explosive device detonated.

The Gazette -- A 26-year-old Fort Carson soldier was killed Saturday when his unit was attacked with an improvised explosive device in Nuristan province, Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced this evening.

Sgt. Elijah J. Rao, of Lake Oswego, Ore., was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. He is survived by a wife, Leah, and a 1-year-old daughter, The Oregonian newspaper reported. His family remained at Fort Sill, Okla., when he was reassigned to Fort Carson and deployed in June to Afghanistan, the newspaper said.

The Gazette -- A Fort Carson infantryman was killed in an ambush Tuesday on his first mission as a sergeant, family members said.

Sgt. Kenneth Ray Nichols Jr. — “Bub” to his friends — had been pinned with his new rank just hours before setting out with his unit on a night patrol in Kunar province. A rocket-propelled grenade hit his vehicle, killing the 28-year-old , and wounding another soldier, his widow said.

“He always smiled. He loved life, he was happy, and he made everyone around him want to be a better person,” Lexi Nichols said.