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Contractor killed in attack in eastern Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 months ago
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Afghanistan (AP) U.S. military officials say three men wearing Afghan army uniforms and driving an Afghan army vehicle forced their way onto a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan and opened fire, killing one civilian contractor...The incident took place
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Afghan Region Makes Name for Drug Mules, Tragedy
Tehrān :: Iran | 4 months ago
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Residents of this remote district of northeast Afghanistan are finding that desperate times call for desperate measures. With few options to make an honest living, many locals in the Kalafgan district of Takhar Province are taking jobs as drug mules
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After Kandahar, the history war
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 11 months ago
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Story video Brian Gable/The Globe and Mail Editorial cartoons: August, 2012 Canada has not fared well in many of the accounts by non-Canadians in particular, recent books by respected Washington Post correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran, British
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Officials: 2 foreign doctors, 3 Afghans abducted
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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Afghanistan (AP) — Two foreign doctors and their three Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in a remote area in the extreme northeast Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. Abdul Maroof Rasikh, the spokesman for the governor of
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'Poison attack' on Afghan girls
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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Poison attack' on Afghan schoolgirls in Takhar Many schools in Afghanistan have come under attack More than 70 girls in a school in north-east Afghanistan have fallen ill following a suspected poison attack. About 40 girls have been treated and
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Two foreigners, three Afghans abducted in northeast Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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Two foreign doctors and three of their Afghan colleagues were kidnapped in a remote area in northeast Afghanistan, officials said. Abdul Maroof Rasikh, the spokesman for the governor of Badakhshan province, said on Wednesday that it's unclear who
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Daily U.S. Casualties
Kunar :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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As of Friday, at least 1,835 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S...The latest death reported by the military: A man wearing an Afghan army uniform killed a U.S. soldier and wounded two others in Kunar province
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Karzai: Response to attacks shows Afghan forces ready
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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The performance of Afghan forces in reacting to a series of sustained assaults shows that the country's security situation will not deteriorate after the departure of international troops scheduled for next year, President Hamid Karzai said Monday. "
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Taliban launch coordinated Afghanistan assaults
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 year ago
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International Security Assistance Force said, saying up to seven locations were attacked. Insurgents also took over a building in front of the Afghan parliament and began firing at it, the Kabul police chief's office said in a statement. But police
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Angels: A moving military tribute to Adenhart
Hagerstown :: MD :: USA | 1 year ago
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On Monday, the third anniversary of promising young Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart's death, Maryland State Trooper Nathan Steelman did everything he could to stay busy...In a city of about 40,000 residents, you knew most people, especially the athletic
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