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

June 1st, 2010

Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, left, meets Democratic Party of Japan party secretary general Ichiro Ozawa, right,  at the parliament in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 2, 2010. Hatoyama has said he intends to resign. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA **AP - Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Wednesday he was resigning over his broken campaign promise to move a U.S. Marine base off the southern island of Okinawa.


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US, Japan to keep US military base in Okinawa (AP)

May 27th, 2010

AP - Washington and Tokyo agreed Friday to keep a contentious U.S. Marine base on the Japanese island of Okinawa, reaffirming the importance of their security alliance and the need…

Car bomb hits outside NATO base in Kandahar city (AP)

May 26th, 2010

A private security guard stands near a site of a car bomb explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. A car bomb exploded Wednesday outside a small NATO military base in southern Afghanistan's largest city, wounding two Afghans and destroying several cars, police said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - A car bomb exploded Wednesday outside a small NATO military base in southern Afghanistan’s largest city, wounding two Afghans and destroying several cars, police said.


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Insurgents attack NATO’s southern Afghan base (AP)

May 22nd, 2010

Foreign Secretary William Hague, center, and International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, second left, address the press along with Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rasoul, right, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 22, 2010. On the left is Afghan spokesperson Ahmad Zahir Faqiri. .William Hague, Defence Secretary Liam Fox and International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell are set to meet President Hamid Karzai in their first visit to to the country since a new coalition government took power in London this month. (AP Photo/ Ahmad Massoud)AP - Insurgents launched a ground attack against NATO’s main military base in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said.


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Taliban attack key US base in Afghanistan (AP)

May 19th, 2010

US soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force patrol near Bagram Air Base. Taliban militants armed with rockets, guns and grenades attacked the largest NATO base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, sparking gun battles that killed seven insurgents and wounded seven NATO soldiers.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AP - Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault Wednesday against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, killing an American contractor and wounding nine service members in the second Taliban strike…

Suicide bomber attacks Russia military base: report (Reuters)

May 9th, 2010

Reuters - A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a military base in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Sunday, Interfax news agency reported, quoting an unnamed military…

Afghan suicide attack kills 1 outside CIA base (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

An Afghan police officer stands guard near the site of a gun battle in the Shar-e Naw area in the heart of the capital Kabul. The vests of suicide bombers are packed with high-explosives and detonated by remote control, timers or by the wearers themselves once they reach their targets, killing the wearer and causing indiscriminate loss of life, particularly among civilians.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - A suicide attack outside a CIA base killed one civilian and wounded two security guards Monday in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.


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Kyrgyz interim leader tells AP US base will stay (AP)

April 13th, 2010

Kyrgyz men stand under a poster with the images of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kyrgyz counterpart Kumanbek Bakiyev, in the central square of the town of Jalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. A leader of the self-declared interim government that has claimed power in Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday the deposed President must return to the capital or face arrest by special forces. But ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev was defiant, rallying some 5,000 supporters in his power base and refusing to give in to demands that he step down. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Tuesday that her government will extend for a year the lease of a U.S. air base key…

Kyrgyzstan interim leader says US base will stay (AP)

April 13th, 2010

Kyrgyz men stand under a poster with the images of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kyrgyz counterpart Kumanbek Bakiyev, in the central square of the town of Jalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. A leader of the self-declared interim government that has claimed power in Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday the deposed President must return to the capital or face arrest by special forces. But ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev was defiant, rallying some 5,000 supporters in his power base and refusing to give in to demands that he step down. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader tells The Associated Press that her government will extend the lease of a U.S. air base key to the war in Afghanistan.


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Kyrgyz victims mourned, US base fate on hold (AP)

April 9th, 2010

Kyrgyz gather to mourn revolt victims on central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, April 9, 2010. Thousands of grieving and defiant citizens of Kyrgyzstan are gathering in the capital's main square to mourn victims of this week's revolt which forced the president to flee. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Thousands of grieving, angry mourners flooded the capital’s main square Friday to honor victims of Kyrgyzstan’s revolt — with many blaming the country’s absent president for ordering security…