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ISAF tank kills child, wounds woman in Lashkargah
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 8 months ago
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A child was killed and his mother wounded after being hit by an armoured vehicle of foreign troops in southern Helmand province, where four Taliban were killed in an airstrike, officials said on Friday...The 8-year-old was killed on the spot and his
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Change of U.S. command expected in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
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The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan is being transferred and another Marine general will take over the war effort early next year as the United States and its allies shrink their combat role against the still-potent insurgency...Dunford Jr.
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Afghan insider attacks 'cannot be stopped'
Canberra :: Australia | 8 months ago
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S top diplomat in Australia has conceded the deadly insider attacks on Western soldiers in his country cannot be completely stopped. Afghan forces following a week-long suspension, Afghan Ambassador Nasir Andisha admitted the increasingly common so-
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Taliban likely to regain power: analyst
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
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The withdrawal of international forces will in some respects leave the country worse off than it was before a US-led invasion toppled the Taliban nearly 11 years ago, Afghan expert Gilles Dorronsoro of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Joint operations with Afghan forces continue
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
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S. commander to scale them back after a string of deadly insider attacks, Pentagon spokesman George Little said here. Speaking at a Pentagon news conference, Little described such scaling back as "a temporary measure," adding that some patrols below
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Towleroad Talking Points: Cam vs. Mitch and Romney on Airplanes
Tripoli :: Libya | 8 months ago
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson is not pleased that he lost his Emmy bid to Modern Family co-star Eric Stonestreet. This being an election year, he is taking to the TV to warn against the evils of Stonestreet . Lots of "divas" in the news today. First watch
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Afghans want peace, but they are caught between forces they can't control | Zarlasht Halaimzai
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
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Khorshid, who was killed in a suicide bomb blast in Kabul earlier this month. Photograph: Skateistan On a visit to Afghanistan earlier this month, I spent an afternoon at Skateistan , a project in Kabul that offers some of the poorest children in the
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ISAF reports 7% decline in Taliban attacks
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
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Brigadier General Gunter Katz, spokesman for the international force, told journalists here on Monday (Sept. 24) that attacks on their troops by armed rivals decreased by 9% percent in August 2012, as compared to the same month last year. He said
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NATO: Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan declining
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
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Afghanistan (AP) The international military coalition in Afghanistan says insurgent attacks have decreased 9 percent in August, compared with the same month last year a trend that continues a decline after a spike in attacks in May and June...The
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Taleban official behind attack on Kiwis captured - report
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
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A senior Taleban official believed to be behind last month's attack in which two New Zealand soldiers were killed is reported to have been captured in Afghanistan. Major Adam Wojack, a spokesperson for the US-led coalition in Afghanistan, said that
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