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News Source: Denver Post
| 5 months ago
Afghanistan — National Security Adviser James Jones told U.S. military commanders here last week that the Obama administration wants to hold troop levels here flat for now and focus instead on carrying out the previously approved strategy of...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| 5 months ago
Seven people including women and Afghan border security personnel were killed in a suicide attack at Torkham border inside Afghan territory on Tuesday. According to eyewitnesses more than twelve people were seriously wounded, sven of them were...
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News Source: Pak Tribune
| 5 months ago
A suicide attacker dressed as a woman detonated bombs strapped to his body at a checkpoint on Afghanistan`s border with Pakistan Tuesday, killing a policewoman, an official said. The man, dressed in an all-covering burka that most Afghan woman wear...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
A suicide bomber dressed as a woman killed at least one person, identified as a child, and wounded eight in an attack on an Afghanistan-Pakistan border checkpoint on Tuesday, government officials and police said. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
U.S. forces in Afghanistan said air strikes have killed at least 12 militants allegedly involved in sneaking foreign fighters from Pakistan into Afghanistan. A military statement said the overnight strikes in eastern Khost province hit a pair of...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
More than two dozen Taliban and three police officers were killed in a clash in northern Afghanistan and a suicide bombing and US-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. Officials in the Baghlan province said a clash...
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News Source: Macleans
| 5 months ago
Afghanistan's interior minister called Tuesday for the disbanding of private security forces after a group of guards that has worked for the U.S. military was involved in the killing of a provincial police chief in the country's south...The shooting...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
A suicide bomber dressed as a woman killed a police officer and wounded four others in an attack on a key Afghan-Pakistan border crossing Tuesday, a day after U.S. coalition airstrikes killed more than a dozen militants elsewhere in eastern...
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News Source: Gulf News
| 5 months ago
June 30, 2009, 11:54 Kabul: US coalition troops says they have killed over a dozen militants in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan. The coalition says in a statement the strikes targeted insurgents linked to a militant leader Siraj Haqqani, in Khost...