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Three Senjaray farmers interviewed by The Canadian Press described the murky world of Taliban justice that, despite NATO’s presence in the country, still prevails in some towns and villages across Afghanistan’s troubled south. ...
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In addition to claims it killed 5220 foreign troops, the insurgents said they downed 31 aircraft last year. Its fighters destroyed 2818 NATO and Afghan vehicles and killed 7552 Afghan soldiers and police, according to a statement from a ...
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The troops are to be trained by US-led international forces, as NATO commanders in Afghanistan demand additional soldiers to effectively combat the resurgent Taliban militants. So far a total of 85000 army soldiers, ...
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The offensive began in earnest on December 7, after weeks of intelligence gathering, when British, Danish, Estonian and Afghan troops unleashed a combined attack on a Taliban-held village, with Danish tanks leading the charge. ...
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Voter registration in southern Afghanistan, where NATO-led and Afghan forces are struggling against a resurgent Taliban, will start in two weeks. If security does not improve, fewer people in the south would be expected to vote than in ...
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The crowd turned its anger against coalition forces in the province, demanding the immediate withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan, which includes about 2700 Canadians. "We do not want help from non-Muslims countries. ...
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U. S. President-elect Barack Obama plans to take U. S. troops out of Iraq and focus on Afghanistan; after all that's where Osama bin Laden was based, as a guest of the then Taliban-led Afghan government when bin Laden's Al Qaeda ...
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In what amounts to an Afghan version of the surge in Iraq, the U.S. is preparing to pour at least 20000 extra troops into the south, augmenting 12500 NATO soldiers who have proved too few to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is ...
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Over the past few months, the Taliban has carried out several dozen targeted killings. A spokesperson proudly boasted of having workers in Kandahar city making lists of those employed by the government. Parwana, a single mother because ...