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US: 5 US troops die in eastern Afghan blast (AP)

June 7th, 2010

Canadian soldiers with 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, get ready to reinforce troops after one of their comrades got injured by an IED blast during a patrol outside Salavat, in the Panjwayi district, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, June 7, 2010. IEDs have been the single biggest cause of death among Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Seven out of nine Canadian deaths this year were the result of IED blasts. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - The U.S. command says five American soldiers have been killed in a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan.


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Afghans: Pakistani Taliban commander rumored dead (AP)

May 27th, 2010

An Afghan woman walks in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Afghan officials said Thursday they were investigating reports that a leader of the Pakistani Taliban may have been killed in fighting in the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan.


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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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Taliban claim suicide attack on NATO-Afghan base (AP)

March 10th, 2010

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, second left, tours through the town of Now Zad, Afghanistan, on Tuesday March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim WATSON, Pool)AP - The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members.


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