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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: AKI
| 4 months ago
International Security Assistance Force in Kabul would not immediately confirm their nationality...They died "due to an improvised bomb explosion in northern Afghanistan."...The attacker blew up his car at a checkpoint outside a Kandahar airfield.
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News Source: Press TV
| 4 months ago
Afghanistan have been killed in a bomb blast in northern part of the country. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast on Monday. The name and the nationality of the soldiers killed in the accident have not been disclosed by the military...
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News Source: Leader Post Online
| 4 months ago
No Canadians were involved in that incident whatsoever,â Canadian Forces spokeswoman Capt. Marie-France Poulin said. âItâs an ANA (Afghan National Army) checkpoint.â The attack on the coalition base comes as insurgent activity...
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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...
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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: CNN
| 4 months ago
A suicide car bombing Monday at the Kandahar airport killed two and injured 16, Afghanistan's military said. The explosives, loaded in a minivan, detonated at the airport gate where cars are stopped for security checks, said military commander Sher...