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Task force on bomb threats
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 7 days ago
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Gates has created a new task force to enhance efforts to counter the threat from roadside bombs in Afghanistan. Gates said the task force members will spend the next six months reporting to him about the best way to deal with the improvised explosive...
Tags: task force, Afghanistan, roadside bombs, Kabul, War in Afghanistan, IED jamming systems, Asymmetric Warfare Group, Bombs, Explosives, Improvised explosive device
Afghanistan says 40 Taliban killed in Farah
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility US Marines and Afghan soldiers have managed to kill 40 militants in a joint operation in Afghanistan's west, the Afghan military claims. "At the request of the local population an operation was launched by the Afghan army and the US Marines in the district...
Tags: Afghanistan, afghans army, Kandahar, roadside bombs, Taliban, civilians casualties, US Marines, taliban killing
US troops killed in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Three died in a roadside explosion, while another was shot by militants...In a statement, the US military said that all five servicemen died on Thursday. The year 2009 has been the deadliest for foreign troops since the US-led invasion overthrew the Taliban.
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, U.S, southern afghanistan, troop killed, roadside bombs, wounds sustained, soldiers died
Afghan road bomb kills civilians
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility The group was travelling in a private van when they struck the bomb in Farah province, Raouf Ahmadi, a police spokesman for the region said on Wednesday. The explosion wounded eight other people in the same van travelling from neighbouring Ghor province....
Tags: roadside bombs, Farah, farah province, Kandahar, Afghanistan, bombs kills, seven civilians, ghor province
Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility The ever-present perils of the Panjwaii claimed the life of another young Canadian soldier today when his armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb while returning from a mission to root out Taliban command centres and weapons caches...Jonathan Couturier,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar City, Canadian, Jonathan Couturier, roadside bombs, Kandahar Airfield, Quebec City Le Soleil, soldiers kill, explosive device, Kabul, Kandahar
Karzai Campaign Declares Victory in Afghan Vote
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 months ago
Credibility President Hamid Karzai 's campaign manager claimed victory on Friday in the country's presidential election, saying preliminary results showed there would be no need for a second round run-off. "Initial results show that the president has got a majority,"...
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Mr Karzai, presidential elections, roadside bombs, elections commission, Abdullah Abdullah
Blasts kill 45; destroy Iraqi village
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 months ago
Credibility Bomb attacks in Baghdad killed at least 45 people, injured hundreds of others and destroyed a village near Mosul in northern Iraq Monday, officials said. An Interior Ministry official said two truck bombs exploded simultaneously, wiping out the Shiite...
Tags: Baghdad, Iraqi, Mosul, Xinhua, bombs exploded, bombs attacks, roadside bombs, told xinhua, car bombs, Shiite
NATO chief wants more troops in Afghanistan
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
Credibility LONDON: NATO's new secretary-general made a direct call for more troops in Afghanistan on Friday and said training of Afghan forces also needed to be escalated. "Honestly speaking, I think we need more troops," Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Danish...
Tags: Afghanistan, NATO, Helmand Province, U.S, southern afghanistan, Canada, roadside bombs, nato chief
Seven U.S., British troops killed in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 months ago
Credibility KABUL: Four U.S. and three British troops were killed in roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, officials said on Friday, as violence worsens ahead of an election in the eight-year-old war's deadliest phase. The deaths brought the...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.S, southern afghanistan, NATO, Kabul, roadside bombs, Helmand, helmand province, troops killing, presidential elections
Bombs targeting Shi'ite Muslims kill 27 in Iraq
Mosul :: Iraq | 3 months ago
Credibility MOSUL: A suicide car bomber killed 21 people and wounded 72 as worshippers left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in northern Iraq on Friday, police said, the same day a series of bombs in the capital killed six Shi'ite pilgrims. A week ago a series of blasts outside...
Tags: Baghdad, roadside bombs, Iraqi, blasts walls
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