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Dog of war: Taliban claims to have captured military canine
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have released video purportedly showing a captured allied soldier - a dog soldier that is, believed by Pentagon officials to be a British military service pup captured during a raid last December.
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U.S. Won’t Seize Taliban Ally’s Cash
The White House designated a Taliban ally as a terrorist organization in 2012. Seventeen months later, none of the network’s assets have been frozen or blocked.
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An Afghan town gets its first female high-school graduates
The government and donors tout girls’ school enrollment, but the reality behind the numbers is less impressive
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Here’s Why America’s Only P.O.W. Was Suddenly Shown Alive
Last month, the international press revealed that the Taliban had delivered to U.S. officials a video showing that America’s only prisoner of war, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, was still alive. What has not yet been previously reported was the U.S. government requested this proof of life as a precondition to resuming direct U.S.-Taliban talks over a prisoner swap: Bergdahl in exchange for Taliban commanders currently imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
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US to seek soldier's freedom via Taliban prisoner swap
Washington will attempt to resume talks with the Taliban on exchanging a US soldier held captive by insurgents since 2009 for Guantanamo Bay prisoners, The Washington Post reported.
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Taliban Raid Afghan Army Base, Killing Soldiers in Their Sleep
Taliban insurgents overran an Afghan National Army base near here on Sunday morning, killing 21 soldiers in their bunks in what appeared to be the worst single blow to government forces since 2010, according to both government and insurgent officials. President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation and canceled a planned state visit to Sri Lanka in response to the attack, in the Ghaziabad district of Kunar Province, near the eastern border with Pakistan
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US 'planning full Afghan pullout'
President Barack Obama has warned his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai that the US may pull all of its troops out of his country by the year's end.
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White House Clears Way For Complete Withdrawal From Afghanistan
After months of stalled talks on what the U.S. presence in Afghanistan would look after the war ends this year, the Obama administration has given the green light to begin planning for a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the country. Those plans will allow American and allied commanders to “accomplish an orderly withdrawal by the end of the year should the United States not keep any troops in Afghanistan after 2014,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday.
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Involved since 2001, Canada wraps up its mission in Afghanistan
Canada's military efforts in Afghanistan will end this month, with the withdrawal of the last 100 soldiers from Kabul, where they had been wrapping up training of Afghan National Security Forces.
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Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 15 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber riding a rickshaw blew himself up outside a checkpoint near a market in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 15 civilians, officials said, in the latest attack in the countdown to April 5 presidential elections.
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British sniper in Afghanistan kills six Taliban with one bullet
Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards hit trigger switch of suicide bomber whose device then exploded, Telegraph learns...
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British sniper kills six Taliban in Afghanistan with one bullet
A British sniper firing from 850 metres away has amazingly hit the trigger switch of a suicide bomber’s vest, killing both the attacker and five others in the ensuing blast, UK newspaper The Telegraph reported.
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AP photographer killed, reporter wounded
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A veteran Associated Press photographer was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday when an Afghan policeman opened fire.
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The other wounds
Most Iraq and Afghanistan veterans’ injuries didn’t occur during combat. But their ailments have become an enduring consequence of the conflicts.
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U.S. force in Afghanistan may be cut to less than 10,000 troops
The number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan may drop well below 10,000 - the minimum demanded by the U.S. military to train Afghan forces - as the longest war in American history winds
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Afghan hospital guard kills 3 U.S. doctors
An Afghan security guard opened fire on a group of doctors at a Kabul hospital on Thursday morning, killing three American physicians and wounding a U.S. nurse, officials said. The shooting at Cure International Hospital in western Kabul was the latest in a string of deadly attacks on foreign civilians in the Afghan capital this year.
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3 Americans killed in attack on Kabul hospital
The attack on the hospital was the latest in a wave of violence targeting foreigners in Afghanistan.
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The Taliban Has No Clue to Whom It Should Return a Captive US Soldier
Members of the Taliban who have held an American soldier in Afghanistan for almost 5 years are keen to make a deal to release him — but US officials are apparently too disorganized to arrange the handover, and there are so many agencies involved that the Taliban are not sure who to call to make a deal.
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British helicopter crash: Five UK troops feared dead as Taliban claims responsibility for Afghanistan attack
A British helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing five Nato troops in the bloodiest day this year for foreign forces in the conflict. The Taliban claimed to have shot down the helicopter in Kandahar but military sources said enemy action was not believed to be involved.
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In Spite of the Law, Afghan ‘Honor Killings’ of Women Continue
An 18-year-old runaway named Amina agreed two weeks ago to leave the women’s shelter in which she had taken refuge in northern Afghanistan and go home with her brother and her uncle. What happened next is a cautionary tale for two young people from Bamian Province who eloped and are still in hiding, even as some activists are trying to persuade them to turn themselves in.
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