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Afghan opium cultivation to rise in 2013: UN report
Vienna :: Austria | 1 month ago
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Afghan farmers attracted by high prices are likely to cultivate more opium this year, lining the pockets of traffickers and Taliban insurgents alike, a U.N. report said on Monday. Afghanistan supplies about 90 percent of the world's opium, from which
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Ten Afghan "civilians" killed in NATO airstrike
A NATO airstrike killed 10 Afghan civilians, including five children, in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, local officials said, a toll that if confirmed is likely to raise tension between President Hamid Karzai's government and U.S.
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Taliban attacks kill six in Afghanistan
Two attacks in Afghanistan have killed six US citizens in the deadliest day for foreign forces this year. According to a US security source, three of the Americans were soldiers and another was a female diplomat. A Taliban bomb
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NATO airstrike kills two Afghan children
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 month ago
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Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, in the latest civilian casualties to beset the coalition's war against Taliban militants. The operation close to Ghazni city was conducted after local people complained of a Taliban post targeting traffic
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Long way to TK if you wanna rock'n'roll
Singapore :: Singapore | 1 month ago
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IT'S not easy to get an all-male crowd of workmates dancing at a rock 'n' roll gig...It's 7.30 at night in Tarin Kowt, or TK as the soldiers call it. The humming of Black Hawk helicopters taking off is incessant but hasn't stopped 400 troops heading
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John Kerry makes unannounced visit to Afghanistan
Shortly after the US military relinquished control of its last detention facility in Afghanistan, Secretary of State John
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Afghan policemanmanman kill 46 Taliban militants
Afghan policemanmanman backed by army, understanding bureau and NATO-led coalition force have slain 46 Taliban combatants over the homeland over past 24 hours, central Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. "In past 24
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Taliban facilitator detained in Afghan Balkh province: ISAF
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
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The facilitator is accused of procuring improvised explosive device (IED) components, suicide vests and other weapons and distributing them to his fellow fighters for use in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in the province 305 km north of
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Huge bomb defused in Afghan capital
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
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They say the explosives in the bomb could have caused significant casualties and damages. Five al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network fighters were killed in a gun battle after the bomb was found earlier this week, officials say. The Afghan capital has been
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Taliban Insurgents Kill 17 Afghan Troops
In Afghanistan murder after kidnapping This stuff that raises distress and grief, and anger Soldiers killed before trial It's an ongoing war in Afghanistan And the U.S. administration and NATO
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