afghanistan war

WikiLeaks: More US documents coming on Afghan war (AP)

July 26th, 2010

An Afghan soldier stops a mini bus as a U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) checks its passengers during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - The release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war is just the beginning, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promised Monday, adding that he still has…

Leaks provide ground-level account of Afghan war (AP)

July 25th, 2010

A US Marine patrols the fields as US Marines help the Afghan National Army search compounds for insurgents in Gharmsir district in Helmand Province, last year. The White House denounced a massive leak of secret military files Sunday that allegedly describe how Pakistan's spy service aids the Afghan insurgency, but said the information was no surprise.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AP - Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings…

Gen. Petraeus calls for unity in Afghanistan war (AP)

July 3rd, 2010

In this July 2, 2010 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, newly appointed International Security Assistance Forces Commander, Gen. David Petraeus, center right, greets Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan to take command of U.S. and binternational/b forces fighting the nearly 9-year-old war. Petraeus arrived from Brussels where he sought to reassure allies that the war against the Taliban was on track despite rising casualties and problems regaining control over key parts of the country. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Daylena Gonzalez, U.S. Air Force)AP - The new U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan is calling for unity between the civilian and military effort in the nearly 9-year-old war.


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Kyrgyzstan Uprising: Did Moscow Subvert a U.S. Ally? (Time.com)

April 7th, 2010

Time.com - Kyrgyzstan is important to Washington for its supply line to the U.S.’s Afghanistan war operations. Moscow has tried to disrupt the U.S.-Kyrgyzstan relationship before. Has it tried again?

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