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An Afghan policeman has shot dead five British soldiers at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, the defense ministry in London said on Wednesday. The men, three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military Police, were shot in Helmand province...
Tags: Afghanistan, afghans policeman, British, afghans police, Helmand Province, Gordon Brown, afghans war, asylum seekers, control immigration, Taliban
Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission has received more than 2,000 complaints of fraud or abuse in last week's disputed presidential election, with 270 now listed as serious enough to affect the result, it said on Friday. More than a week after...
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Richard Holbrooke, U.S, American, afghans war, Mr Karzai, Pentagon
At a recent meeting with senior military staff, James Jones, Barack Obama’s national security adviser, warned that any request for more US troops in Afghanistan would prompt a presidential “WTF” moment. WTF, in the highly acronymic Pentagon culture, literally...
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, Barack Obama, U.S, afghans war, drug trade, Stanley McChrystal, upper hand, president barack, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stanley McChrystal tells a Senate committee that the strategy that worked in Iraq won't translate to Afghanistan, and that greater cooperation with Pakistan is needed. June 3, 2009 "I don't think that the Taliban have any reason right now to turn their...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.S, Stanley McChrystal, civilians casualties, afghans war, civilians deaths, lieutenant general, general stanley, Taliban