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Afghan Talks May be Underway, But Peace Is Not at Hand (Time.com)

October 7th, 2010

Time.com - The U.S.-led coalition is unlikely to defeat the Taliban militarily, but neither side is ready to accept the other’s peace terms. Instead, expect more talking and more fighting…

Marines in key Afghan town face full-blown insurgency (AP)

October 7th, 2010

In this Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 photo, hospital Corpsman Matthew Heger, foreground, 24, of Seattle, Wa., fires on insurgents during a gunbattle in Marjah, Afghanistan. Heger is serving with the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines' Echo Company, which arrived in Marjah in July. Eight months on, the Taliban are still in Marjah in force, waging a full-blown guerrilla insurgency that rages daily across a bomb-riddled landscape of agricultural fields and irrigation trenches.  (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)AP - The young Marine had a simple question for the farmer with the white beard: Have you seen any Taliban today?


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2 explosions rock southern Afghan city, killing 8 (AP)

October 5th, 2010

A man wounded in a blast is brought to a hospital in Kandahar city, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Two explosions rocked Kandahar on Tuesday where U.S. and Afghan forces are ramping up operations in areas long held by the Taliban. At least eight people were killed and another 22 were wounded in the blasts, according to the province's officials. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Two explosions rocked Kandahar on Tuesday, the second night of deadly explosions in the southern Afghan city where U.S. and Afghan forces are ramping up operations in areas…

Blasts kill 4 NATO troops, up to 4 Afghan police (AP)

October 4th, 2010

Two Afghan army soldiers, who were wounded in an IED explosion, are carried into a U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter to be evacuated to Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Air Force pararescuemen and helicopter pilots from the 46th and 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadrons are supporting ongoing military operations in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - Three explosions just minutes apart rocked Kandahar on Monday night, killing up to four Afghan police officers in the nation’s largest city in the south.


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4 NATO troops, Afghan policemen die in Afghanistan (AP)

October 4th, 2010

Two Afghan army soldiers, who were wounded in an IED explosion, are carried into a U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter to be evacuated to Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Air Force pararescuemen and helicopter pilots from the 46th and 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadrons are supporting ongoing military operations in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - Three explosions just minutes apart rocked Kandahar on Monday night, killing up to four Afghan police officers in the nation’s largest city in the south.


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Afghan starts to close private security firms (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Two Afghan army soldiers, who were wounded in an IED explosion, are carried into a U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter to be evacuated to Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Air Force pararescuemen and helicopter pilots from the 46th and 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadrons are supporting ongoing military operations in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - The Afghan government said Sunday it has started dissolving private security firms in the country by taking steps to end the operations of eight companies, including the firm…

Afghan government sets up 70-member peace council (AP)

September 28th, 2010

AP - In an effort to find a political solution to the war, the Afghan government on Tuesday set up a 70-member peace council, formalizing efforts already under way to…

Karzai tearful as bombing kills Afghan official (AP)

September 28th, 2010

A British soldier mans his position at the rear of a helicopter as it is flies over Helmand province in Afghanistan in August, 2010. Security forces Monday stepped up the hunt for British woman and three Afghans reportedly working for a US development group who were kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/Pool/File/Andrew Winning)AP - A suicide bomber killed a deputy provincial governor and five others Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, police said. Later, a tearful President Hamid Karzai decried the violence, fretting that…

NATO: Detained Afghan journalists released (AP)

September 24th, 2010

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Marvin R. Calhoun of Elkhart Ind., upon  arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del. on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. The Department of Defense says Calhoun was killed in a helicopter crash in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Three journalists detained by coalition forces and Afghanistan’s intelligence service for allegedly spreading Taliban propaganda have been freed, NATO said Friday, following an outcry from media workers and…

Detained Afghan journalist released by coalition (AP)

September 24th, 2010

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Marvin R. Calhoun of Elkhart Ind., upon  arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del. on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. The Department of Defense says Calhoun was killed in a helicopter crash in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - An Afghan journalist detained by coalition forces for allegedly spreading Taliban propaganda has been freed, NATO said Friday.


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