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Afghanistan – New Intelligence Teams to Probe Insider Attacks
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Afghans use culture guides to cut insider attacks
Analysis: The Taliban’s ‘momentum’ has not been broken
President Obama claims that the Taliban’s “momentum” has been broken in Afghanistan. Other officials have made similar claims. The Long War Journal has examined several sources that measure the insurgency’s capacity for violence and finds that the Taliban’s momentum has not been broken. The overall level of violence in Afghanistan today remains worse than prior to the surge.
Al Qaeda operative killed in Kunar airstrike
Abu Saif, a Pakistani national, served as a cross-border facilitator and a conduit between senior al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and was involved in media operations. Two other Pakistanis and a Saudi were also killed.
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Trilateral initiative: Formal talks begin on safe passage for Afghan Taliban
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The Taliban killed four Afghan soldiers in attacks in Farah and Baghdis. Security forces killed a Taliban commander and 11 fighters in Wardak. Two ISAF soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in Logar. The Afghan military dismissed hundreds of soldiers for involvement in green-on-blue attacks.
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Afghan soldiers fired during insider attacks probe
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Taliban Will Not Be Able to Return Without Reconciling: ISAF
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Afghan military says it has expelled, arrested ‘hundreds’ of its troops
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US to hand over Bagram prison next week: Kabul
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A suicide bomber killed 30 people in an attack at a funeral in Nangarhar. President Karzai pardoned more than 3,000 prisoners. An “illegal militia group” killed three civilians in Parwan.
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Bamiyan, a once-peaceful corner of Afghanistan, turns deadly
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Afghanistan – Insurgents among 1,000 inmates freed
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Afghanistan – Kapisa Residents Take Fight to the Taliban
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NATO chief: rogue Afghan attacks will not hasten pullout
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Karzai’s choice for Afghan intelligence chief suspected of torture, trafficking
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Afghans Terrorized By Border Shelling As Blame Game Goes On
Suicide bomber kills 30 Afghans in attack at funeral
The attack took place as local government officials attended a funeral in the Door Baba district in Nangahar province.
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Egypt and US near deal on debt relief
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Pakistan – Lower Dir border with Afghanistan sealed: DCO
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Four policemen and four Taliban fighters were killed after the Taliban ambushed a column transporting the governor of Kapisa. Seventeen people were killed during clashes between the Taliban and “illegal armed forces” that broke out in Kunduz. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
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Afghanistan – Lawmakers Concerned at Rise of Illegal Militia
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Obama gets ahead of himself on Afghanistan pull-out
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The US has suspended the training of the Afghan Local Police due to the spike in green-on-blue attacks. The Taliban killed five border policemen in an IED attack in Nuristan and a district council member in Helmand. Security forces captured a Taliban fighter who killed two US troops in Helmand, and detained a suicide bomber […]
Combined forces arrest Taliban insurgent wanted for deadly ‘green-on-blue’ attack
A combined force detained a wanted Taliban fugitive who had shot and killed two British ISAF members on May 13. He was attempting to joint the Afghan National Army when he was arrested.
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Haqqani Behind Wardak Double-Suicide Attack: NATO
Taliban release video of beheaded Pakistani soldiers
“Mujahideen slit the throats of 11 army-men in light of Shariah Law,” the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan’s spokesman said.
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Training suspended for new Afghan recruits
Taliban claim sympathetic Afghan soldier killed Australian troops
“Infiltrating mujahideen and the respectful soldiers in the enemy ranks” have stepped up attacks on ISAF personnel, the Taliban claimed.
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President Obama said the Taliban’s momentum has been broken. Taliban suicide bombers killed 10 civilians and two policemen in Wardak. The Taliban killed two US soldiers in Ghazni. An al Qaeda commander was killed on Aug. 3 in an airstrike in Kunar.