Liberians mourn UN worker killed in Afghanistan
AP - 1 hour 6 minutes agoHundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
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Military sees increase in wounded in Afghanistan
Park Hills Daily Journal - 1 hour 15 minutes agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Far from winding down, the numbers of wounded U.S. soldiers coming home have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute among those who fought in Afghanistan, where nearly four times as many troops were injured in October as a year ago.
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Five Afghan border guards killed by roadside bomb
AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 50 minutes agoFive Afghan border guards were killed when a roadside bomb blast hit their patrol in the troubled southern province of Kandahar Sunday, police said.
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Afghan official: 5 border security guards killed
AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 22, 3:11 am ETFive Afghan border security guards have died in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.
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Suicide bomber kills 16 in western Afghanistan
The Washington Times - Fri Nov 20, 10:00 am ETKABUL (AP) -- A suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a powerful former warlord narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, officials said. The attacks came a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai took the oath of office for a second term amid escalating violence across the country. Karzai said he has ...
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Setting Afghan exit date defeatist: defense panel
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 3:58 pm ETDespite fierce public pressure to end the war in Afghanistan eight years on, politicians and experts on Saturday decried calls for setting an exit date they say would embolden the Taliban.
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In Indiana, Practice for 'Civilian Surge' in Afghanistan
CommonDreams.org - Sat Nov 21, 11:16 am ETby Karen DeYoung CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. -- Outside a scruffy, two-story building, armed and flak-jacketed U.S. soldiers stood watch under a sagging Afghan flag. Inside, the provincial governor, a Hamid Karzai look-alike in a striped robe and Karakul cap, pleaded with two tribal elders to get along. Only the Taliban would benefit from their dispute, the governor's aide said with a nervous click of ...
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Rocket hits near hotel in Kabul
The Durango Herald - Sun Nov 22, 3:32 am ETKABUL - A rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital late Saturday, wounding two people, the Interior Ministry said. The heavily guarded Serena regularly houses visiting diplomats, officials and international workers.
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CNN - Taliban Leaders Killed, NATO Forces Say
WSB-TV 2 Atlanta - Sat Nov 21, 10:59 pm ETSecurity Forces In Afghanistan Have Killed Or Captured More Than 30 High-Level Militants, Including Many Accused Of Participating In Roadside Bomb Attacks, Military Officials Said.
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Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born: U.N.
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 5:27 am ETEight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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Afghan Official: German troops in Kunduz are battle-shy
EARTHtimes.org - Sat Nov 21, 4:28 am ETBerlin - German troops are too slow into battle to effectively provide security in northern Afghanistan, the governor of Kunduz province told news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. Mohammed Omar said that in Kunduz, where Germany has up to 4,500 sold...
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U.S. Afghanistan debate curbs Gates on Canada visit
Los Angeles Times - Sat Nov 21, 3:14 am ETDefense Secretary Robert Gates attends a conference but, with the Obama administration wrestling over its Afghan strategy, isn't in a position to push Canada to reconsider a troop withdrawal plan. As the Obama administration wrestles over its new Afghanistan strategy, the domestic debate is having far-reaching implications for the United States' ties with its allies in the war.
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US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 842
AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 9:05 pm ETAs of Friday, Nov. 18, 2009, at least 842 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, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EST.
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Karzai's Cabinet Members Face Corruption Charges
Fox News - 1 hour 2 minutes agoWarrants have been signed for the arrest of two Afghan cabinet ministers on charges of theft and fraud, highlighting the extent of alleged corruption in the government of President Hamid Karzai.
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Rocket hits luxury hotel in Kabul; not the first time
Arizona Daily Star - Sun Nov 22, 2:10 am ETKABUL — A rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital late Saturday, wounding two people, the Interior Ministry said.
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U.S.-run prison in Afghanistan holds few Taliban diehards
USA Today - Thu Nov 19, 9:47 pm ETThe U.S. military says the vast majority of the 700 detainees at its biggest prison in Afghanistan could eventually be released because they're fighting more for money than ideology.
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Mixed feelings greet inauguration of Afghan President Karza
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