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News Source: Japan Today
| 4 months ago
Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops on Monday, the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year—and a sign that the war being fought in the Taliban heartland of the south and east could now be expanding north. Separately,...
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News Source: CNN
| 4 months ago
As Marines mount a new U.S. push to force Taliban fighters from a stronghold in southern Afghanistan, a new military strategy is taking root. That strategy might best be described as: After taking a town from the enemy, hold that town...The strategy...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 4 months ago
At least six US soldiers were among 10 people killed in a series of attacks apparently targeting foreign troops in Afghanistan, as US marines continued their offensive in southern Afghanistan. Four US soldiers died when a roadside bomb was...
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News Source: Truthout
| 4 months ago
Marines continued with their massive anti-Taliban offensive in the south, the biggest U.S. military operation since the ouster of the Taliban from power in 2001. American troops recently received new guidelines limiting use of airstrikes in...
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News Source: BBC South Asia
| 4 months ago
They are the latest victims in a wave of violence which has claimed dozens of lives there over the past few weeks. Dera Ismail Khan borders the tribal region of South Waziristan where the Pakistani army is engaged in an operation against Taliban...
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News Source: China News
| 4 months ago
Three children sustained injuries in the incident," he added...The purported Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in talks with media from undisclosed location claimed responsibility for the attack. This is the second violence in a single day on...
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News Source: CNN
| 4 months ago
Four U.S. soldiers were killed Monday by a roadside bomb in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz, the U.S. military in Afghanistan said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. military vehicle...Meanwhile, a U.S. military...
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News Source: Times of India
| 4 months ago
Pakistani combat jets today pounded Taliban positions in the troubled South Waziristan tribal region as the army claimed 14 militants were killed in clashes with security forces in the northwestern Swat valley. The jets attacked militant positions in...
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News Source: South Africa News
| 4 months ago
Afghanistan on Monday, killing two Afghans, as US Marines pushed on with an assault against Taliban strongholds in the south. The Taliban militia claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in southern Kandahar province and said its fighters had...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 4 months ago
Operation Foladi Jal, or "iron net" in Pashtu, would teach the Marines "a lesson," Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP by telephone from an unknown location. About 4,000 Marines poured into the southern province on the border with Pakistan in an...