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Afghanistan's battle to re-integrate reformed Taliban fighters
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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News in pictures On Facebook From the blogs When it came to the highest of high pressure situations, Bayern's stars showed what separates them f... Last week, the Frontline Club hosted its second debate to discuss the impact of two documentaries Sr.
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Why we went into Helmand
Baghdad :: Iraq | 1 year ago
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What he actually said on a visit to Kabul in April 2006 was: "We would be perfectly happy to leave in three years time without firing one shot." Not quite the same thing, but the myth does nonetheless encapsulate a deeper truth about the blithe
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Afghans defy warnings as poppy season opens
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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Afghanistan, April 23, 2012 (AFP) -It is the start of Afghanistan's poppy season and at Kandahar bus station thousands of men and boys, some as young as 10, are gathered to seek work harvesting the opium crop. Landowner Abdul Rahman travelled from
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,810
Kunar :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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As of Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at least 1,810 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is five
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Afghan who shot Britons 'had no links to Taliban'
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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An Afghan officer who shot dead two British servicemen in an argument over getting into a base in Helmand had never shown hints of extremism or links to the Taliban, his family said. Lt Gul Nazir had been on leave to visit his wife and two young
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Suicide bomber strikes in western Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber in a four-wheel-drive vehicle has blown up his cache of explosives in Herat province in western Afghanistan, killing or wounding more than 20 people. Nasar Ahmad Popul, the chief of Guzara
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George Galloway's victory shows Britain is sick of the war in Afghanistan | Paul Flynn
Bradford :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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British soldiers from 2nd Battalion the Rifles cross a waterway through farmland in Helmand province. Photograph: Cpl Timothy L Solano/PA The people of Bradford West have spoken...Our three political parties decide not to see, hear or understand...It
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,794
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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As of Tuesday, April 3, 2012, at least 1,794 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is seven
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Afghan militants poison, attack police; 6 killed
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan authorities say insurgents have poisoned the food of policemen and then attacked their checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, leaving six people dead. The Helmand province governor's office said Tuesday
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2 Nato troops Killed by a Afghan
The attack happened at a military base in the south of the Afghanistan. The incident comes after several Afghan civilians were killed in an attack for which a US soldier has been charged. An official in the Afghan defiance
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