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News Source: Gulf News
| 5 months ago
Helmand Governor Gulab Mangal says the government has no control in three Helmand districts on the northern end of the province and two in the south. Thousands of US Marines arrived in Helmand last month to help British forces already stationed there...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
Thousands of mostly US troops are moving in to secure the polls and to reinforce the turbulent south, a Taliban stronghold, but regional US commander General David Petraeus has warned of "tough months ahead." Petraeus said on Thursday that the past...
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News Source: ITN
| 5 months ago
An officer killed in action in southern Afghanistan on Friday was a "wonderful, loving son", his family has said...Mr Mervis's family said: "Paul was a wonderful, loving son, brother and friend â" generous and thoughtful, with an infectious sense...
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News Source: Times Online
| 5 months ago
Afghanistan last week was trying to help colleagues trapped in a hail of rocket and machinegun fire, commanders said yesterday. Private Robert McLaren, 20, from Kintra on the Isle of Mull, only finished training in April but had already proved he had...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Afghan security forces backed by U.S.-led Coalition forces killed 19 Taliban militants including their commander in Paktica province of eastern Afghanistan, spokesman for provincial administration said on Saturday. "The operation, began...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
Eight drivers were killed and 21 others, including drivers, their assistants and local shopkeepers were wounded in the blast, he said. Duad Ahmadi, spokesman for the provincial governor, said eight tankers and four pickup trucks used by security...
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News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
The New York Times reported Saturday that eight other people were injured and 12 vehicles were destroyed in the attack Friday. The newspaper said the bomb attack is believed to be among the first in Afghanistan targeting a stationary convoy. The...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
Officials in southern Afghanistan say a suicide bomber has attacked a fleet of fuel tankers intended for international troops, killing at least eight Afghan drivers. A spokesman for the governor of Helmand province says the attack late Friday in the...
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News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 5 months ago
A suicide bomber killed eight Afghans, many of them truck drivers supplying Western troops, in a strike on a fuel station in southern Helmand province, Abdul Mohammad, chief of Helmand province's Girishk district, said Saturday. The head of US...
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News Source: Sky News
| 5 months ago
UK, Saturday June 13, 2009 The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the death of another British soldier in Afghanistan, as military officials warn of a new peak in violence. Attacks against Coalition troops are now at record levels The soldier was...