Latest Headlines in Afghanistan
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One of the most senior British army officers in Afghanistan has been killed by a roadside bomb in the southern province of Helmand, the defence ministry says. Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, 40,...
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U.S. General Stanley McChrystal chats with an Afghan boy in June 2009 in the village of Deh-e-Bagh, where a Canadian initiative to help develop the town is underway.
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SORKHDOZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan valley on Thursday, marking the start of a major new effort by the Obama administration to ...
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Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey -- The apparent capture of an American soldier by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, believed to be the first such case in nearly eight years of...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A search is under way in eastern Afghanistan for a soldier apparently being held by Taliban insurgents after he walked off his base without his body armor or weapon. Officials say t...
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(AP) — As of Thursday, July 2, 2009, at least 642 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, ac...
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U.S. General Stanley McChrystal chats with an Afghan boy last month in the village of Deh-e-Bagh, where a Canadian initiative to help develop the town is underway. The general laid down stricter rules...
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(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)U.S Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines climb on to a rooftop of a house after arriving in an an overnight night air assault near ...
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