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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
Afghan forces, killing at least 14 on Monday in the southeastern town of Khost. Afghanistan following a weekend in which the US death toll in the conflict surpassed the 2,000 mark and continued to raise concerns over "insider" attacks by Afghan...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
The Interior Ministry said dozens of people were wounded, many of them civilians...The radical Islamist Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the attack, part of the latest spate of violence in Afghanistan. Americans, who make up the bulk of...
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The Reporter
| 8 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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DAWN
| 8 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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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
Several civilians were also killed, an Afghan official said but did not provide details. Mohammad Yaqub, a deputy police chief of eastern province of Khost, said a suicide bomber targeted a military convoy in the provincial capital Khost. A number of...
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Al Jazeera English
| 8 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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Los Angeles Times
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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
| 8 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...
