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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 5:35 pm ET
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and key Western powers are seeking a new U.N. envoy to Afghanistan to help lead the "civilian surge" U.S. President Barack Obama has promised, U.N. diplomats and officials said.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 6:07 am ET
South Korea vowed Thursday to press ahead with plans to send troops back to Afghanistan despite a Taliban threat of retaliation.
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Arizona Daily Star - Thu Dec 10, 2:21 am ET
KABUL, Afghanistan — The American commander in charge of training the Afghan security forces said Wednesday that there had been a recent wave of recruits for the Afghan army, most likely because of a pay increase that he said put salaries close to those of Taliban fighters.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 4:42 pm ET
When Congress finally got its chance to weigh in on the war in Afghanistan, lawmakers grudgingly accepted what they didn't like about the Obama administration's planned escalation and moved on.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 1:43 am ET
Taliban militants on Wednesday dynamited two boys' schools in Pakistan's Khyber district, where troops are pressing an offensive against Islamist insurgents, an official said.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 3:09 pm ET
President Barack Obama defended the right of the United States to wage "just wars" as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, acknowledging that as a wartime president he was a controversial choice.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 3:48 am ET
Five young Americans detained in Pakistan, which is fighting an increasingly violent Taliban insurgency, wanted to join a jihad, or holy war, a police official said on Thursday.
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The Huffington Post - Thu Dec 10, 4:59 pm ET
If we didn't expand our forces in Afghanistan, and further even if we had removed those currently there, we would be no worse off. Rather, we'd have better resources to combat terrorism.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 2:40 pm ET
President Barack Obama, accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace, on Thursday defended the right of the United States to wage "just wars" like the one in Afghanistan.
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Washington Post - Thu Dec 10, 2:14 pm ET
The five men from Northern Virginia arrested in Pakistan had contacted radical jihadist organizations in that country, including two terrorist groups with links to al-Qaeda, and had maps and videos suggesting that they intended to train to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 1:40 pm ET
Delayed elections in Iraq and a bloody attack this week will not derail U.S. troop withdrawal plans, U.S. officials said as Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew into Baghdad to meet Iraqi leaders.
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Time.com via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 1:25 pm ET
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is reeling from allegations that officials withheld information on civilian casualties in the German-ordered air strike in Kunduz
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 10, 1:17 pm ET
Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al-Qaida linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, a Pakistani law enforcement official said Thursday.
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Stars and Stripes - Thu Dec 10, 3:10 pm ET
As one group of U.S. soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry tried to grab a few hours of sleep, another prepared to conduct medical screenings in the village of Ashoque, just west of Kandahar city.
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UPI - Wed Dec 9, 9:05 am ET
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A U.S. airstrike targeted a group of militants near a Taliban training camp in the eastern province of Kunar, military officials said Wednesday.