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Afghan forces avail air support in uninhibited areas: Katz
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Karzai Requests The Transfer of Guantanamo Detainees
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Afghan TV Throws Spotlight on Abuse of Police Officers
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Coalition troops are ready to ‘rough it’ while closing Afghan bases
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In Afghan Transition, US Forces Take a Step Back
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Afghan officials said that 15 Taliban fighters were killed during fighting in Farah. Coalition and Afghan forces killed 19 Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban gunned down a member of Logar’s High Peace Council.
Afghan intelligence thwarts major attack against Kandahar City
Following weeks of surveillance work, Afghan intelligence officials intercepted an explosives-laden tractor late on May 25, effectively preventing a massive Taliban terror attack against Kandahar City. Tractors have been widely employed by insurgents as a means of transporting explosives and for vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices.
Turkistan Islamic Party touts suicide bombings in Afghanistan
In recently released propaganda, the al Qaeda-linked group claimed two suicide attacks in Afghanistan and identified several fighters who have been killed in the country since 2007.
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Eight Taliban fighters and four civilians were killed after a bomb detonated prematurely outside of a mosque in Ghazni; the Taliban had stopped to pray at the mosque. A suicide bomber killed only himself in a premature detonation in Kabul
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Interior Ministry Blames Networks Within Pakistan For Kabul Blasts
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For Obama’s Global Vision, Daunting Problems
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ISAF confirm death of senior Haqqani leaders in Paktiya
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A Taliban suicide assault team targeted a UN-linked NGO compound in Kabul; five Taliban fighters, a Nepalese guard, and an Afghan policemen were killed during the fighting, which lasted for seven hours. The Taliban killed four policemen in an attack in Helmand.
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A suicide bomber killed seven people in an attack that targeted a local militia commander in Ghazni. Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in Kandahar and Herat, and two Haqqani Network commanders and three fighters in Paktia. ISAF claimed that the Afghan Air Force can conduct independent air operations.
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US Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes
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Security Concern Halts Foreign Investments in Afghanistan
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NATO Member Countries To Keep Soldiers Post 2014
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Afghan interpreters given right to apply for asylum
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In Afghanistan, Hezb-i-Islami Takes Its Extremism Into Politics
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Drones: Myths And Reality In Pakistan – International Crisis Group
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Coalition Plays Down Afghan Reports of Major Battle in Helmand
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The Taliban launched small-scale attacks against several police outposts in the Sangin district in Helmand province; 26 Taliban fighters, including “Pakistanis and Chechens,” and 10 policemen were killed in the clashes over the past two days. Six security guards at a dam in Herat were killed in an IED attack. Eighty schoolgirls were poisoned in […]
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Afghan peace lost in transition worries
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Applying Early Lessons to Build Afghan Security
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A Taliban suicide bomber killed the head of the provincial council in Baghlan and 13 Afghans. Security forces killed two Taliban fighters in Paktika and two more in Wardak.
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Taliban aims victory after NATO pullout from Afghanistan: Azimi
Taliban suicide bomber assassinates senior politician in Afghan north
The head of the provincial council in Baghlan province and 13 others were killed by a Taliban suicide bomber who was dressed as a policeman.
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Ministry of Defence To Mobilise Paktika Forces: Officials
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Afghanistan to Sign Security Agreement Once the War Ends
Prominent anti-Taliban police chief killed in western Afghanistan
Taliban assassins killed the Khak-i-Safid district police chief in Farah province on Friday night. Khak-i-Safed police forces have been conducting an effective counterinsurgency campaign in the area since last year.