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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
Afghan officials say the police chief for the southern province of Kandahar has been killed in a clash with Afghan special forces trained by the U.S. A senior member of the Kandahar provincial council says at least nine other police officers were...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
A child was killed and nine people including four police officers were wounded when an explosives-laden car rammed into a police convoy in the Behsud district of eastern Nangarhar Province, the provincial governor's spokesman said on Sunday. Also in...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
The military, near the end of an offensive in the northwestern Swat Valley after two months of fighting, is preparing to launch a new drive in South Waziristan, where Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud is based. The decision to go on the attack...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 5 months ago
The offensive against militants in the Swat Valley, as well as Pakistanis' growing support for the campaign, gives U.S. officials reason to believe Islamabad can turn the tide against extremists. June 27, 2009 "All of a sudden military operations [...
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News Source: South Africa News
| 5 months ago
The first explosion was in the turbulent southern province of Helmand, where a remote-controlled roadside bomb struck a vehicle and killed three civilians, the interior ministry said in a statement. Two more were wounded, it said, without giving...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
The medical staff of the facility located north of Kabul told AP that they were under enormous strain due to the incoming flow of dead and wounded soldiers. The medics spoke of their experiences of the Sunday rocket attack on Bagram Air Field, which...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
David Miliband on Thursday in London refused to concede defeat after reporters objected that the British troops had lost control over several districts across Afghanistan's troubled south, including regions near the border with Pakistan. "I think it'...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
Afghanistan says that troops will adopt new war tactics aimed at reducing the number of civilian deaths across the war-ravaged county. Gen Stanley McChrystal, who took charge of some 90,000 US-led troops last week, said that he would release new...
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News Source: Epoch Times
| 5 months ago
The United States has been pouring thousands of troops this year into southern Afghanistan, the heartland of the Taliban movement and scene of the heaviest fighting, to prepare for an effort to regain the initiative from the insurgents. De Kruif said...