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Taliban attacks NATO supply trucks in Pakistan (AP)

October 4th, 2010

Pakistani firefighters try to extinguish burning NATO oil tankers following the gunmen attack on the outside of Islamabad. Three people were killed on Monday and up to eight others wounded when about 20 NATO oil tankers were attacked and set ablaze near the Pakistani capital, in the second mass torching in days.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AP - The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Monday for a pre-dawn attack on tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for U.S. and other NATO forces, vowing to continue raiding supply lines…

Suspected al-Qaida militants kill 5 Iraqi soldiers (AP)

August 3rd, 2010

An Iraqi police officer uses a bomb detector at a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Two bombings and a drive-by shooting killed eight people Monday, a reminder of Iraq's ongoing instability on a day when President Barack Obama planned to outline progress toward the impending end of U.S. military operations in the country.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Suspected al-Qaida militants killed 5 Iraqi soldiers in a brazen dawn attack Tuesday at a western Baghdad checkpoint and planted the terror group’s black banner before fleeing the…

Militants attack Indian camp in Afghanistan (AP)

April 10th, 2010

FILE - This Jan. 31, 2009 file photo provided by the US Air Force shows a CV-22 Osprey aircraft from the 8th Special Operations Squadron over the Emerald Coast outside Hurlburt Field, Fla. A U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft crashed in southeastern Afghanistan Friday, April 9, 2010, killing three service members and one government contractor, NATO said. It was the first crash of the costly, tilt-rotor aircraft in a combat zone. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Julianne Showalter)AP - Militants launched a pre-dawn attack on an Indian road construction camp in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, burning vehicles and equipment and sending the crew fleeing, authorities said.


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