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Kabul meeting to lay ground for 2014 deadline (AP)

July 19th, 2010

An Afghan National Army soldier prepares a machine gun before going on a patrol outside Combat Outpost Terra Nova, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - The strategy sits for now on a table in a locked-down Afghan capital: Hand over security in all 34 provinces to the government by the end of 2014…

Bomb kills 3 in Afghan capital ahead of conference (AP)

July 18th, 2010

A British soldier patrols Afghanistan's Helmand Province on June 24. NATO has confirmed that a foreign soldier died following a Taliban-style bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - A suicide bomber slipped through the Afghan capital’s tight security ring Sunday, killing three civilians near a busy market two days before an international conference hosting representatives from about…

Top US prosecutor in Kabul to discuss corruption (AP)

June 30th, 2010

AP - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was in the Afghan capital to talk with officials about improving the justice system and fighting corruption Wednesday, a day after Afghanistan’s top…

UN vehicle shot in Afghan capital, driver killed (AP)

June 29th, 2010

An Afghan police officer stands next to a U.N. pickup truck, left, in central Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, after it was shot up by an unknown attacker. Two people were in the vehicle, but only the driver was hit, said a man who saw the shooting. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)AP - An Afghan man working for the United Nations was shot and killed in his vehicle Tuesday near a busy traffic circle in Afghanistan’s capital, the world body said.


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UN vehicle shot in Afghan capital, driver wounded (AP)

June 29th, 2010

An Afghan police officer stands next to a U.N. pickup truck, left, in central Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, after it was shot up by an unknown attacker. Two people were in the vehicle, but only the driver was hit, said a man who saw the shooting. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)AP - A U.N. vehicle was shot up at a busy traffic circle in Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday, and at least one person was wounded, witnesses said.


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UN vehicle shot in Afghan capital, driver hurt (AP)

June 29th, 2010

US Army soldiers are seen close to Spinboldak near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. US and Afghan troops were flown in on a pre-dawn attack using Black Hawk helicopters and seized mountainous high ground in Kunar's Marawara district as part of a major offensive recently.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)AP - A U.N. vehicle was shot up at a busy traffic circle in Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday, and at least one person was hurt, witnesses said.


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