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Stars and Stripes|by Drew Brown GOLESTAN DISTRICT, Afghanistan - Set amid a sweep of cragged peaks that run 40 miles from north to south and stretching just three miles across, the Golestan valley has been one of the most...
Bloomberg - Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services...
Canoe.ca Bomb blast injures one in Pakistan: police AFP PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A bomb exploded near the building of a non-government organisation offering treatment to the blind in northwest Peshawar city on Saturday, injuring...
McCain predicts Obama will send 'tens of thousands' of additional troops to the war-torn country Afghan police officers sort through weapons surrendered by around 80 former Taliban fighters in western Herat, Afghanistan,...
By Lal Aqa Sherin* KABUL, Nov 21 (IPS) - A Taliban fighter infiltrated the Afghan police force, killing seven Afghan officers and British soldiers. Afghan interior and defence ministries deny that the screening of prospective...
China says 42 dead, 66 trapped in mine explosionBEIJING (AP) _ A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked...
Biometric tests to identify rebels in Afghanistan London Times | Nov 15, 2009 by Stephen Grey THE inhabitants of combat zones in southern Afghanistan may face biometric tests in a new initiative to prevent the Taliban from...
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up on Saturday as police chased them in Pakistani Kashmir, police said. Militants have carried out a series of bomb attacks across Pakistan in...
KABUL, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Afghan and the NATO-led troops have killed over a dozen Taliban fighters in Kandahar province south of Afghanistan during an operation launched Friday, a private television channel reported Saturday....
KABUL, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security forces have captured a dozen Taliban fighters in the western Nimroz province, provincial governor Ghulam Dastgir Azad said Saturday. "The security forces, during a cleanup operation...
