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News Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald
| 5 months ago
Because of rain Saturday, the Chalk the Block art contest has been rescheduled for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, June 13, on the 1000 block of Main St. Copyright 2009 Telegraph Herald All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast,...
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News Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald
| 5 months ago
A joint Afghan and U.S.-led coalition operation against insurgents in southern Afghanistan killed more than 20 Taliban fighters Sunday, while a militant ambush in the northwest killed four policemen, officials said. The joint operation in Zabul...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
Afghan Army Chief of Operations General Shir Mohammad Karimi said at a news conference on Monday, that there were no police force and government agents in 10 districts, adding that insurgents rule these areas. During the Kabul conference, Karimi...
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News Source: Macleans
| 5 months ago
Some 7,000 of the new U.S. troops ordered to Afghanistan are fanning out across the dangerous south on a mission to defeat the Taliban insurgency and to change the course of a war claiming American lives at a record pace. The marines represent the...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, there are about 235,000 Afghans living in a situation of forced displacement as a result of conflicts and natural disasters.
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Anti-government militants set fire at a school in Afghanistan's western Farah province, the Afghan Interior Ministry said in a press release on Monday. "The enemies of peace and stability in Afghanistan burned the school of Shahid Abdul...
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News Source: Associated Press
| 5 months ago
Some 7,000 new U.S. troops ordered to Afghanistan by President Barack Obama are fanning out across the country's dangerous south on a mission to defeat an increasingly violent Taliban insurgency...Abe Sipe says 7,000 troops from the 2nd Marine...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
Twenty Taliban-linked insurgents were killed in an intense day-long battle with police in restive southern Afghanistan at the weekend, authorities said on Monday. "The fighting erupted after militants attacked the police soon after a roadside bomb...
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News Source: The Local
| 5 months ago
Both soldiers were shot during an attack by radical Islamist Taliban fighters near Kunduz while on patrol at 11:30 am local time, a spokesperson said. One soldier sustained severe injuries, while the other was grazed by a bullet, the spokesperson...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Two German soldiers sustained injuries as a roadside bomb struck their military vehicle in the relatively peaceful Kunduz province in north Afghanistan, a press release issued by the Kunudz-based German Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) said...