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US puts Europeans on alert to provide more troops for Afghan campaign »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Britain and other European states will have to provide any reinforcements for Afghanistan if more troops are needed, Nato sources said today. The top US ...
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US broke bombing rules in Afghanistan »
Posted by: STONERS 5 months, 1 week ago in Political News
American troops made substantial errors and did not strictly follow rules for avoiding casualties during an air assault on Taliban fighters last month, a U ...
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Roman police find sewer children »
Posted by: altnrg 7 months ago in Family
Italian police have found more than 100 immigrants, including 24 Afghan children, living in the sewer system beneath railway stations in Rome.
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Posted by: Klarissa 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
WASHINGTON - With a bloody suicide bombing near the Khyber Pass adding urgency to his words, President Obama announced on Friday that he plans to further ...
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Crowd Attacks Afghan Women Protesting New Marriage Laws »
Posted by: Progressive 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Family
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A group of some 1000 Afghans today swarmed a demonstration of 300 women in Kabul protesting a new conservative marriage law. The women were ...Read (279) | Share | Discuss (4) | Read Full Story at newser.com
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Opium addiction ravages Afghan families »
Posted by: Progressive 3 months ago in Family
In dozens of mountain hamlets in a remote corner of Afghanistan, opium addiction has become so entrenched that whole families — from toddlers to old men ...
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'We're pinned down:' 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush | McClatchy »
Posted by: kellekrapache128 1 month, 1 week ago in News
McClatchy's Jonathan S. Landay talks about the ambush of U.S. and Afghan troops he was embedded with on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. For ...
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NATO considers beefing up Afghan war support »
Posted by: orndorffter 2 weeks, 2 days ago in News
Top NATO and United Nations officials signaled Friday they may request more international troops to join American forces in Afghanistan as the top U.S ...
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US Marines Suffer First Casualties in Afghan Offensive »
Posted by: altnrg 4 months, 1 week ago in News
U.S. Marines have suffered their first casualties of a new major offensive in Taliban-controlled parts of southern Afghanistan.
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The Taliban get their first wish »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
A key factor in the Taliban's revival after being driven from power by US-led forces in 2001 was that from 2004 they established a ...
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Official: Intel predicts rising Afghan violence »
Posted by: orndorffter 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
U.S. intelligence suggests that violence in Afghanistan will rise through 2009 despite the Obama administration\'s new strategy for combatting the Taliban and shoring ...
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Taliban Surprising U.S. Forces With Improved Tactics - washingtonpost.com »
Posted by: icono1 2 months, 1 week ago in News
The Taliban has become a much more potent adversary in Afghanistan by improving its own tactics and finding gaps in the U.S. military playbook ...
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What Obama Couldn't Say About Af-Pak »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
What about detainees? Currently we're holding some 600 of them at Afghanistan's Bagram air base--aka "Afghanistan's Guantanamo"-- with plans for a major ...
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WAVING THE WHITE FLAG? Obama Prepared to Invite Taliban Into Afghan Political Future »
Posted by: PoliJAM 1 month ago in News
In a war that then-Senator Barack Obama said throughout the election campaign was a war that America must win, he now says as the President ...
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Sources: More US troops for Afghan war »
Posted by: orndorffter 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Confronting an inherited and faltering war, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers to Afghanistan by the fall on top ...
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