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DAWN
| 9 months ago
Afghanistan will work vigorously to seek peace with Taliban insurgents, Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul vowed Wednesday at the launch of new body set up to steer ties with the US. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also vowed the United...
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Pak Tribune
| 9 months ago
The American generals and civilian officials acknowledge that they have all but written off what was once one of the cornerstones of their strategy to end the war in Afghanistan: battering the Taliban into a peace deal, reports The New York Times (...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Graphic A look at recent green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan Gallery In a war in which insider attacks have become commonplace, what happened next made the incident extraordinary, the American official said. Another Afghan soldier at the checkpoint...
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International Herald Tribune
| 9 months ago
The once ambitious American plans for ending the war are now being replaced by the far more modest goal of setting the stage for the Afghans to work out a deal among themselves in the years after most Western forces depart, and to ensure Pakistan is...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
Some serious restructuring in the United States military has led to the US hiring more and more highly paid senior officers to oversee fewer and fewer low-ranking personnel...John Allen (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP) As the US is slowly pulling out...
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KSBY
| 9 months ago
Officials in Afghanistan say three U.S. troops and their Afghan translator are among at least 14 people killed by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle today. They say the bomber rammed his bike into a joint Afghan-American patrol...It came a day after...
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National Public Radio
| 9 months ago
Blood stained the ground at the scene today in Khost, where a suicide bomber struck. Blood stained the ground at the scene today in Khost, where a suicide bomber struck...The Washington Post is reporting from Kabul that among the others killed were...
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Telegram & Gazette
| 9 months ago
Monday, October 1, 2012 Another misunderstanding' ends in deaths Five killed as US toll reaches 2,000 An Afghan National Army soldier wears an ammunition belt around his neck during a joint patrol with U.S. Afghanistan Only two days after joint...
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The Reporter
| 9 months ago
The most recent attack came just days after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said most U.S. and coalition combat units in Afghanistan returned to their practice of partnering with Afghan forces, nearly two weeks after the top U.S. commander put...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
Six civilians and an Afghan interpreter also died in the attack. A witness told Reuters a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform struck as US soldiers patrolled the city of Khost...Provincial Governor Abdul Jabar Nahimi said the bomber had been...
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DAWN
| 9 months ago
A suicide attack on a joint Nato-Afghan foot patrol on Monday killed at least 13 people, including three Nato troops and four Afghan police, Isaf and Afghan officials said. Six civilians were also killed and 37 were wounded in the attack near a...
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Denver Post
| 9 months ago
The killing of an American serviceman in an exchange of fire with allied Afghan soldiers pushed U.S. military deaths in the war to 2,000, a cold reminder of the perils that remain after an 11-year conflict that now garners little public interest at...
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Fox
| 9 months ago
Associated Press An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops at a checkpoint in the country's east, killing two Americans and at least two fellow members of Afghanistan's army in a shooting that marked both the continuance of a disturbing...
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Baltimore Sun
| 9 months ago
Afghan army that may have been the result of a misunderstanding, as the death toll of U.S. military and civilian personnel passed 2,000. A U.S. official, who asked not to be identified, said on Sunday that an American soldier and a civilian...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Afghanistan (AP) A firefight broke out between U.S. forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing two Americans and three Afghan soldiers and pushing the number of U.S. troops killed in the long-running war 2,000. The...
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Al Jazeera English
| 9 months ago
19 A US soldier and a civilian contractor have been killed in Afghanistan by an Afghan soldier, bringing the total number of US soldier deaths in the 11-year-old conflict to 2,000. An Afghan soldier on Saturday turned his gun on US troops at a...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Afghan troops died in an exchange of fire Saturday evening in Wardak province west of the capital Kabul, the International Security Assistance Force said. A US official confirmed that the US troop was the 2000th US soldier to die in the long-running...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
ments Military death toll in Afghanistan reaches 2,000 While the US prepares to withdraw most of its troops from Afghanistan by 2014, the number of military deaths in the country continues to rise. The toll is now at 2,000. By Patrick Quinn, ...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
The attack, which occurred late Saturday afternoon in the eastern province of Wardak, comes just days after top U.S. military officials said joint operations between U.S. and Afghan forces were resuming following a temporary halt imposed by the U.S.
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Fox
| 9 months ago
Associated Press U.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that garners little public interest at home as the United States prepares to withdraw most of its combat forces...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 9 months ago
US military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that garners little public interest at home as the United States prepares to withdraw most of its combat forces by the end of 2014.
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The Journal Gazette
| 9 months ago
Afghanistan An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops at a checkpoint in the country's east, killing two Americans and two fellow members of Afghanistan's army in a shooting that marked both the continuance of a disturbing trend of insider...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Saturday, hours after the United States said joint raids with Afghan forces were returning to normal. U.S. soldiers to at least 52 from such attacks since the start of the year, with August being the deadliest period since the start of the phenomenon...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Afghanistan Only two days after joint operations between American and Afghan forces were said to be returning to normal, a pitched battle broke out between the two allies, killing five people, two Americans and three Afghans, according to Afghan...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
U.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that garners little public interest at home as the United States prepares to withdraw most of its combat forces by the end of 2014.
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
The attack _the latest in a string of strikes by Afghan allies on international troops _ marked the 2,000th U.S. troop death in Afghan istan over the long-running conflict. A U.S. official confirmed that the service member killed was American. The...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
The attack took place on Saturday, just two days after Pentagon officials confirmed that joint operations between American and Afghan forces were returning to normal . Afghan national army forces, but did not give further details...If confirmed as an...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
A US official has confirmed that 2,000 American soldiers have now been killed in the Afghan conflict, after a new suspected "insider" attack. A US soldier and a foreign contractor were killed in eastern Afghanistan, apparently by a rogue member of...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Afghanistan The U.S. military is confirming the death of an American service member in eastern Afghanistan, bringing the number of American troops dead in Afghanistan in the long-running conflict to 2,000. The international coalition in Afghanistan...
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Al Jazeera
| 9 months ago
Foreign soldier and civilian contractor killed in attack in eastern Afghanistan, military alliance says...Kabul-Kandahar highway in Wardak province, witnesses told Al Jazeera...The alliance did not specify the nationalities or identities of those...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
The international military coalition in Afghan istan says one of its service members and an international civilian contractor have been killed in an apparent insider attack by Afghan forces. The alliance says in a statement issued Sunday that the...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 9 months ago
Afghanistan and killings by turncoat local forces are spurring concerns about the pace and strategy of the U.S. military pullout, including the end last week of the surge of extra troops. The spectacle of brazen suicide attacks like the Sept. 14...
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Associated Press
| 9 months ago
Habibullah Hayar didn't know it, but he had been sleeping with his enemy for weeks...An equal number of Afghan policemen and soldiers also died in these attacks, giving them reason as well to be suspicious of possible infiltrators within their ranks.
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Martin Dempsey said Thursday. "I'm sure a certain percentage of it is. And we're treating it as a threat," he told reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon...Harrier fighter jets were lost during a brazen raid against Camp Bastion, the United...
