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Afghanistan: Is the U.S. Military Succeeding in Kandahar? (Time.com)

November 9th, 2010

Time.com - The American military has been spinning the Kandahar campaign as a successful one. But maybe because it’s no longer the Taliban’s fighting season. What might spring bring?

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NATO head seeks Russian cooperation in Afghanistan (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (3d L) speaks during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow November 3, 2010. REUTERS/Alexander NatruskinReuters - NATO’s chief will ask Russia on Wednesday to boost cooperation in Afghanistan, as the alliance gears up for a summit this month to which it has invited its…

Afghanistan jails 11 officials over drugs charges (Reuters)

November 1st, 2010

Reuters - Under pressure to combat endemic corruption and the rich trade in illicit drugs, Afghanistan announced on Monday it had jailed 11 government officials including a senior policeman for…

Russia and U.S. Work Together in War on Drugs in Afghanistan (Time.com)

October 30th, 2010

Time.com - Moscow uses the war on drugs as its pathway back to the scene of one of its most humiliating defeats

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Russia Returns to Afghanistan for a Joint Drug Raid (Time.com)

October 29th, 2010

Time.com - Moscow uses the war on drugs as its pathway back to scene of one of its most humiliating defeats

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Afghanistan: Can Iraq-Style Militias Tackle the Taliban? (Time.com)

October 27th, 2010

Time.com - The less-than-sterling record of the Afghan army is leading U.S. commanders to press an Iraqi-militia model on Kabul. But Afghanistan is a very different country

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25 may have been killed in Afghanistan airstrike (AP)

October 25th, 2010

An unidentified UN security person, front, shows the place of yesterday's attack to the UN's Special Representative in Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura, center, at the UN compound in Herat, west of Kabul, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010. A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosives vests and dressed as women attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces killed the attackers and no U.N. employees were harmed, officials said.(AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - About 25 people may have been killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan on Monday, an Afghan official said.


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NATO: Afghanistan bomb attack kills service member (AP)

October 24th, 2010

This photograph taken with the help of a nightvision scope shows foreign soldiers preparing to take part in a patrol in Zari District of Kandahar province on October 22. A soldier with NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed Sunday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - NATO says in a statement that one of its service members has been killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan.


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Suicide attackers assault UN office in Afghanistan (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

This undated photo shows New York Times photographer Joao Silva on assignment in South Africa. Silva has been seriously injured in Afghanistan while covering the conflict in that country, the paper reported  Saturday Oct 23 2010. Silva, 44, received leg injuries when he stepped on the mine while accompanying American soldiers on patrol in the Arghandab district. He was evacuated to Kandahar Air Field where he was receiving treatment. (AP Photo)AP - A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosives vests and dressed as women attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces…

No UN staff harmed in Afghanistan suicide attack (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Italian soldiers on guard in Herat city in 2009. Three suicide bombers wearing police uniforms and burqas on Saturday attacked the United Nations office in the western Afghan city of Herat, senior police and UN officials said.(AFP/File/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - A United Nations official says no U.N. staff members were harmed in a suicide attack on a United Nations compound in Afghanistan’s western Herat province.


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