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US: Troops kill 32 insurgents in east Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S.-led forces raided a Taliban bomb-making cell in eastern Afghanistan, killing 32 insurgents in a battle with scores of armed militants who shot at them from rooftops and alleyways, the military said Wednesday.
Nations:Afghanistan Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AP)
2009-01-07
Female cops test traditional gender roles in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan - There is relish in Khatera Malikzada's voice when she talks about the time the Kabul police needed a woman.
Nations:Afghanistan Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2009-01-07
Afghan cleric shot to death in mosque
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two gunmen shot a Muslim cleric to death inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday, while a NATO serviceman was killed elsewhere in the south.
Nations:Afghanistan Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AP)
2009-01-06
Taliban militants kill 20 Afghan police in ambush
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban militants ambushed a group of Afghan police while they were eating lunch in a remote and dangerous part of southern Afghanistan, killing 20 officers and one of the policeman's mother, an Afghan official said Thursday. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said two Taliban were killed and four wounded during the ambush. Ahmadi claimed 32 police were killed, but that number had not been confirmed by Afghan officials.
Nations:Afghanistan Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AP)
2009-01-01
US readying south Afghan surge against Taliban
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's southern rim, the Taliban's spiritual birthplace and the country's most violent region, has for the last two years been the domain of British, Canadian and Dutch soldiers.
Nations:Canada Afghanistan Pakistan U.S. People:Robert Gates John McCain Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AP)
2009-01-01
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