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Deployment: Unmarried partners face their own kinds of stress SCOTT FONTAINE; The News Tribune Catlin Ang doesn’t dread the knock on the door and the visit by two soldiers in dress uniforms. She’s helping him make sure his...
Afghan insurgents greeted the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as president for another 5 years with a string of attacks and bombings that left 23 dead and dozens wounded on Friday. In the 1980s and the 1990s he was close to some...
Defence Minister Peter MacKay, left, and U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates field questions after a meeting at the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site in Halifax on Nov. 20, 2009. ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX –...
Spc. Gary Lee Gooch and Spc. Aaron Seth Aamot grew up in opposite ends of America. Gooch was raised in Florida, while Aamot was raised in the town of Custer in the northwest corner of Washington. Their lives were intertwined...
Jonathan Montpetit THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian soldiers keep watch during a joint foot patrol with U.S. and Afghan National army in Arghandab district, Kandahar province October 31, 2009. HAJI BABA, Afghanistan – The taking of...
The Times of London reports that French commanders meeting with local Afghan leaders northeast of Kabul were targeted by insurgents with rockets , which killed 12 Afghan civilians and wounded about 38. No French personnel...
The Times of London reports that French commanders meeting with local Afghan leaders northeast of Kabul were targeted by insurgents with rockets, which killed 12 Afghan civilians and wounded about 38. No French personnel appear...
Camp Phoenix, on the outskirts of Kabul, is run by US forces, with some NATO member nations maintaining a presence there. It is also a base for the Afghan army, which is being trained by international forces in the hope it can...
Updated on Monday, November 16, 2009, 14:06 IST Tags: Kandahar: Suspected Taliban militants stormed a police post and killed up to eight policemen in southern Afghanistan, a senior officer said on Monday in the latest attack on...
Following are security developments in Afghanistan reported at 1230 GMT on Monday. KANDAHAR - Eight Afghan policemen were killed and three wounded when Taliban militants attacked their post in the Arghandab district of southern...
