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Taliban attack airport, base in east Afghanistan (Reuters)

November 13th, 2010

Reuters - Taliban insurgents attacked the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s east on Saturday, Reuters witnesses and police said, with up to 10 of…

Taliban attack airport and base in east Afghanistan (Reuters)

November 13th, 2010

Reuters - Taliban insurgents attacked the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s east on Saturday, Reuters witnesses and police said, with at least three of…

Taliban attack airport and army base in east Afghanistan (Reuters)

November 13th, 2010

Reuters - Taliban insurgents attacked the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s east on Saturday, Reuters witnesses and police said, but there was no word…

NATO says kills 30 insurgents after attack on base (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - NATO-led troops killed more than 30 insurgents when their base was attacked in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the coalition said, with the Taliban claiming responsibility for the assault.…

18 Guard members killed in Iran base blast Tuesday (AP)

October 13th, 2010

AP - An explosion set off by a fire that had spread to an ammunition depot at a military base in western Iran killed 18 members of the country’s powerful…

3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base (AP)

September 5th, 2010

AP - A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia’s violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.

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5 killed in suicide attack on Russian base (AP)

September 5th, 2010

AP - A suicide car-bomber killed five soldiers and wounded 40 others in an attack on a military base in Russia’s violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.

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Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

AP - Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some young boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers’ base in an eastern Congo mining district,…

US, Afghans repel attack against major base (AP)

June 30th, 2010

Smoke rises outside an airfield used by Afghan and binternational/b forces in Jalalabad, east of Kabul,  Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 30, 2010.  Militants set off a car bomb and stormed the entrance to the airport  and eight insurgents died in the ensuing gunbattle, authorities said. (AP Photo)AP - U.S. and Afghan troops repelled an attack Wednesday on one of the biggest NATO bases in eastern Afghanistan by militants who used a suicide car bomb, rocket-propelled grenades…

Japan’s prime minister steps down over US base row (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks during the Joint Plenary Meeting of Party Members of Both Houses of the Diet in Tokyo Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Hatoyama said Wednesday he was resigning over his broken campaign promise to move a U.S. Marine base off the southern island of Okinawa. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ** JAPAN OUT MANDATORY FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA **AP - Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Wednesday he was resigning after just eight months in office, largely because of his broken campaign promise to move a U.S.…