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UN office attacked in western Afghanistan (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Italian soldiers on guard in Herat city in 2009. The United Nations office in the western Afghan city of Herat came under armed attack on Saturday, officials said.(AFP/File/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - A United Nations office was attacked Saturday in western Afghanistan, officials said.


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Afghanistan annuls nearly a quarter of ballots (AP)

October 20th, 2010

Afghan policeman stands by a burning oil tanker after an explosive device which was planted underneath it exploded, on the Jalalabad-Torkham highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct . 20, 2010.  (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Afghanistan has thrown out nearly a quarter of ballots cast in last month’s parliamentary elections because of fraud, according to full preliminary results released Wednesday.


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Official: Afghanistan to void some 1 million votes (AP)

October 19th, 2010

US soldier Sergeant Bill Myers, from Phoenix, Arizona, from Bravo Company 2-502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, prepares to patrol after a break near Forward Operation Base Howz-e-Madad, Zhari district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Afghan election officials plan to throw out about 1 million ballots from last month’s parliamentary election — eliminating about 23 percent of the votes due to fraud, a…

Viewpoint (Time.com)

October 18th, 2010

Time.com - How We Should Honor Afghanistan’s Slain Aid Workers

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3 NATO troops die in Afghanistan as attacks surge (AP)

October 15th, 2010

An Afghan soldier peers from the turret of a military armored vehicle at Howz-e-Madad  Forward Operating Base, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Three NATO troops were killed Friday in Afghanistan in a surge of attacks that raised the death toll to 17 in three days for international troops in the country.


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US rescuers may have killed Afghanistan aid worker (AP)

October 11th, 2010

In this undated black and white photo made available Saturday Oct. 9, 2010, from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) showing kidnapped British aid worker Linda Norgrove, who was being held by Afghan captors, who has been killed during a rescue attempt by NATO forces. The aid worker, identified as Linda Norgrove, was killed Friday Oct. 8, 2010,  night by her captors during an operation to free her, Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement from London. (AP Photo / FCO) ** NO SALES **AP - At first, NATO blamed a Taliban bomb for the death of a captive British aid worker during an American rescue attempt in eastern Afghanistan.


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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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2 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, and first Vice President Muhammad Qasim Fahim, left, participate in a function promoting members of the Afghan security forces at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. Karzai delivered a upbeat and nationalistic speech calling on Afghanistan's police and army to prepare themselves to take charge of protecting and defending the nation after the eventual exit of binternational/b forces. (AP Photo/Ahead Massoud)AP - Two more NATO service members have been killed in weekend attacks in Afghanistan, the military coalition said Sunday as Australia’s new prime minister vowed to Afghanistan’s president that…

5 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)

September 30th, 2010

British soldiers with the Royal Gurkha Rifles regiment patrol Helmand Province in June 2010. The commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan has said the Taliban are approaching the Afghan government and foreign forces about laying down arms after almost nine years of insurgency.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - Five NATO service members were killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan, the scene of heavy fighting as troops push into areas long controlled by the Taliban, the coalition said.


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British aid worker abducted in Afghanistan: ministry (AFP)

September 26th, 2010

A soldier mans his position at the rear of a British helicopter as it is flies over Helmand province in Afghanistan in August 2010. The British foreign ministry has confirmed that one of its nationals had been abducted in Afghanistan.(AFP/Pool/File/Andrew Winning)AFP - The British foreign ministry confirmed Sunday that one of its citizens had been abducted in Afghanistan, amid reports she was an aid worker seized while driving through the…