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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: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 4 months ago
Marines pushed on with a major new offensive and sporadic violence flared across the country. The bomber drove a car packed with explosives towards a line of truck drivers waiting to supply foreign troops at the Kandahar air field, a major base for...
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News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 4 months ago
Karim Faiez and Laura King Los Angeles Times Posted: 07/04/2009 08:27:40 PM PDT and airstrikes by assault helicopters. A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province, however, put the number of militants killed at more than 30...Western military...
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News Source: Salem News
| 4 months ago
Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade accompanied by around 650 Afghan soldiers, are part of Operation Khanjar, staged on the Helmand River. Wikipedia reports that this is the biggest push since the Pentagon began moving additional troops...
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News Source: Times Online
| 4 months ago
In the baking heat and dust of Afghanistan last week Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe was heading into hostile territory to check on his men engaged in a big operation against the Taliban. He was riding in the front passenger seat of a Viking...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 4 months ago
Two US soldiers and seven Afghan policemen were killed in separate explosions Saturday, highlighting the level of violence faced by Marines pressing one of the biggest assaults in eight years. In another incident, one security guard died and four...
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News Source: BBC
| 4 months ago
British forces in Helmand, southern Afghanistan, are paying a high price as the Taliban fight back with ever more deadly explosive devices. Caroline Wyatt, just back from Helmand, says it is a critical time for the coalition forces. What should have...
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News Source: Press TV
| 4 months ago
The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Taliban and seek out al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Nearly eight years after the US-led invasion of the country by coalition forces, Afghanistan is...
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News Source: BBC South Asia
| 4 months ago
Four others were hurt in the blast, which a spokesman said was caused by a possible improvised explosive device. The local governor said a suicide bomber had attacked a military base in Zirok district, killing the men. Afghan officials say an ensuing...
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News Source: The Hindu
| 4 months ago
Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest American military operation here since the fall of the Taliban...