Posts Tagged ‘afghanistan’
NATO: 1 dead in noncombat incident in Afghanistan (AP)
AP – NATO says one of its service members has died in an incident that did not involve combat.
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NATO says 3 troops killed in eastern Afghanistan (AP)
AP – A roadside bombing killed three NATO service members Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said.
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40,000 troops to leave Afghanistan by end of 2012 (AP)
AP – Drawdown plans announced by the U.S. and more than a dozen other nations will shrink the foreign military footprint in Afghanistan by 40,000 troops at the close of next year, leaving Afghan forces increasingly on the frontlines of the decade-long war.
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Top Marine spends Thanksgiving in Afghanistan (AP)
AP – A turkey trot it was not.
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GOP contenders argue on Afghanistan, Iran, torture (AP)
AP – Unsparing in their criticism of President Barack Obama, Republican presidential hopefuls disagreed in campaign debate Saturday night about the right course in Afghanistan, the use of waterboarding and the wisdom of a pre-emptive military strike to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon.
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Attack on NATO convoy kills 17 in Afghanistan (AP)
AP – A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an armored NATO bus Saturday on a busy thoroughfare in Kabul, killing 17 people, including a dozen Americans, in the deadliest strike against the U.S.-led coalition in the Afghan capital since the war began.
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12 Americans killed in Afghanistan attack
At least 12 Americans were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a NATO convoy in Afghanistan Saturday, destroying a heavily-armored bus. The bombing – the deadliest attack in the war-torn country in months – sent flames and dark smoke shooting into the Kabul sky.
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