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Digger seriously injured in Afghan blast
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 years ago
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The soldier was on patrol in the Mirabad Valley region of Uruzgan Province yesterday when an improvised explosive device detonated. Major General John Cantwell of the Commander Joint Task Force 633 said the soldier suffered blast and fragmentation
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Bomb discovered
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 years ago
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Police in the northeast Badakhshan province of Afghanistan discovered a mine placed in a flowerpot on Saturday, spokesman for provincial administration Abdul Marouf Rasikh has said. "It was a remote-control mine, emplaced into a flowerpot in
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Sixth soldier wounded in roadside bomb
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 3 years ago
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The Defence Department says the six Australians were travelling in a Bushmaster vehicle in the Chora Valley when it was hit by an improvised explosive device on Tuesday. The Department says the sixth soldier did not initially seek help for his
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Soldiers' tales: medals for bravery
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 years ago
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Sergeant tried to save Afghan colleagues under fire It was another normal day for Sergeant Marc Giles on a foot patrol with British and Afghan forces north of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province...They were broken into two groups, with his commanding
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Soaring IED attacks in Afghanistan stymie U.S. counteroffensive
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 years ago
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Afghanistan last year, relying on explosives that are often far more primitive than the ones used in Iraq . The embrace of a low-tech approach by Taliban-trained bombmakers -- they are building improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, out of
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Diggers forced to blow up own vehicle
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 3 years ago
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Soldiers in the vehicle were shaken but unhurt in the insurgent blast which immobilised the vehicle, The West Australian newspaper has reported. Commander of all Australian forces in Afghanistan Major General John Cantwell said insurgents hit a joint
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U.S. Death Toll In Afghanistan Apparently Exceeds 1,000
Three Deaths From Fort Carson May Break The MarkThe casualty count published at Operation Enduring Freedom lists 998 U.S. troops killed since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001. It appears to have exceeded 1,000.
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British soldiers to be repatriated
Wootton Bassett :: United Kingdom | over 3 years ago
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Lance Sergeant David Greenhalgh was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) on Saturday. The 25 year old served with 1st Battalion, the Grenadier Guards. He is Britain's only victim from the Operation Moshtarak offensive so far. Kingsman Sean
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Two more Digger hurt by bomb blasts
Townsville :: Australia | over 3 years ago
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Australian soldiers have been wounded in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan. It brings the number of Australians injured in Afghanistan in 2010 to six. Defence reported that two soldiers were injured in separate bomb attacks on February
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Coalition soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | over 3 years ago
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Two British soldiers and a Spanish soldier were killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan, the British and Spanish Defense Ministries said. The British soldiers died in roadside bomb explosions Monday, a part of southern Afghanistan that has been
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