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Afghan Singer Cancels Concert in Herat After Mullahs Protest
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ISAF kills, captures al Qaeda-linked Taliban commanders in east
Mutaqi passed “critical information between the senior al Qaeda associated Taliban leaders in Kunar province” and plotted suicide attacks in the region. The commander in Ghazni helped al Qaeda fighters travel throughout the region.
Taliban rockets hit General Dempsey’s plane
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s C-17 was damaged on the tarmac at Bagram Air Base. Dempsey left Afghanistan in another plane.
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An al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander was killed in an airstrike in Kunar province. The Taliban killed three family members of an adviser to President Karzai in an IED attack in Paktia. Police killed two suicide bombers in Faryab. New Zealand may withdraw its troops from Afghanistan earlier than planned.
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US to beef up rural police forces in Afghanistan despite attacks
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Afghanistan – Avoid killing civilian officials, Hikmatyar tells fighters
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Karzai Calls on Taliban to Apologise to Afghans, Renounce Violence
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Senior American Generals Meet Amid Afghan-Violence Crisis
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US general holds talks on Afghanistan ‘insider attacks’
Al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander killed in recent airstrike in Kunar
Yasir was involved in the Aug. 8 suicide attack in Asadabad, Kunar, that killed a command sergeant major and two staff officers for the 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, and a USAID foreign service officer.
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The Taliban killed three New Zealand soldiers in an IED attack in Bamyan and two civilians in a bombing at a cemetery in Helmand. An Afghan policeman killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Four Pakistanis, two Arabs, and a Taliban commander were killed in an airstrike in Kunar. Police killed two Taliban after they […]
Another ISAF soldier killed in green-on-blue attack in Afghanistan
Today’s attack is the eighth by Afghan forces on International Assistance Force troops within the past two weeks. The US government is pressing Afghanistan for solutions and the Taliban are ramping up their propaganda.
ISAF kills Taliban district governor, ‘dozens’ of fighters in Kunar airstrikes
The Taliban reportedly gathered in Chapah Darah district to conduct a public execution when they were targeted in an airstrike. A second strike in Watahpur, a known haven for al Qaeda and the Lashkar-e-Taiba, killed “many” insurgents, including foreigners.
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Ammonium nitrate fertilizer is being smuggled into Afghanistan for IEDs
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Fifty-two insurgents, including 12 commanders, were killed during an ISAF airstrike in Kunar province. The Taliban killed four civilians in an IED attack in Herat.
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Iranian Currency Flows Into Afghanistan Markets
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Why Afghanistan’s past is being ‘rewritten’
Turkish fighters in the Islamic Jihad Union
Several Turks affiliated with the IJU have been killed while waging jihad in Afghanistan, and others have been arrested in foiled plots to carry out attacks against European and US targets in Europe.
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An Afghan policeman killed two US soldiers in Farah; an Afghan soldier wounded two US soldiers in Kandahar. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand.
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An Afghan police official claimed that an ISAF airstrike killed more than 50 Taliban fighters, including 13 local commanders. Four people were killed in a bombing at a mosque in Herat. A former member of parliament was assassinated in Faryab.
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Afghanistan, Pakistani Governments Hide Meeting with Mullah Bradar
2 US soldiers killed in latest green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan
So far this year, green-on-blue attacks have caused 13 percent of the ISAF deaths. Nine ISAF soldiers have been killed by Afghan forces in the past 11 days.
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Thirty-one Taliban fighters, seven Afghan soldiers, and an NDS agent were killed in clashes throughout the country. Seven Western soldiers, three Afghan troops, and an interpreter were killed in a helicopter crash in Kandahar. ISAF killed an IMU leader and “multiple insurgents” in an airstrike in Takhar.
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Afghanistan – Women rally for reopening of girls’ schools
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Experts: Operation Against Pakistani Taliban Will Create More Problems
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ISAF kills senior IMU leader, ‘multiple insurgents’ in airstrike
Mullah Anwar served as the IMU’s leader in the Burkah district in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, and was responsible for the assassination of a district governor and a member of the Afghan High Peace Council in Takhar.
11 NATO, Afghan troops killed in helicopter crash in Kandahar
The Taliban claimed to have shot down a Chinook in Shah Wali Kot district; ISAF said the cause of the crash is under investigation.
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The Taliban killed three policemen and a civilian in a bombing in Uruzgan, four children in an IED attack in Paktika, and an ISAF soldier in the east, and wounded 20 Afghans in a bombing in Herat. Security forces killed a suicide bomber in Kunduz, and killed a Taliban leader and detained three “assassins” in […]