Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey – A
U.S. military report released today said at least two local Afghan officials were believed to have colluded in a July attack by insurgents on a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan that killed nine
U.S. soldiers.
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Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey – The
U.S. military said today it was investigating a report that an American airstrike hit a wedding party, killing dozens of civilians and prompting new pleas from President Hamid Karzai that foreign forces try harder to avoid hurting and killing noncombatants.
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The next
U.S. leader will inherit a war in Afghanistan that is certain to play a central role in his presidency, a conflict whose cost in blood and money is escalating even as many Afghans speak of a growing sense of peril in their daily lives.
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Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Peshawar, Pakistan – A pair of missile strikes hours apart killed at least 27 people Friday near the border with Afghanistan, only days after Pakistan demanded that the United States halt an intensifying campaign of using Predator drones to hit at Taliban and Al Qaeda militants.
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U.S airstrike in northwest Pakistan is believed to have killed a front-line leader of Al Qaeda, anti-terrorism officials said this week, continuing an aerial barrage that has angered a key American ally but is thought to have hurt the network’s operations.
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A suicide bomber managed to penetrate a heavily guarded Afghanistan government ministry in the heart of the capital today and blow himself up, killing at least three other people and wounding more than a dozen others.
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A powerful earthquake today jolted a swath of rural southwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing at least 150 people and leaving thousands of others homeless after their mud-brick homes collapsed.
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The Afghan war is at its highest pitch since it began seven years ago, growing daily in scope and savagery.
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Insurgents today downed a
U.S. helicopter in a province near the capital, the American military said – a highly unusual feat for the Taliban.
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Security for Westerners in Afghanistan took a sharp turn for the worse today when an Afghan security guard working for the international shipping firm
DHL shot dead the company’s top two officials in the country before killing himself, Afghan officials said.
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