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NATO kill about 50 Afghan insurgents (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - U.S. and other NATO troops killed about 50 insurgents during attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, calling in air strikes to repel an assault on an outpost in the…

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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4 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan’s south, east (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 NATO service members were killed by bombings in southern Afghanistan on Monday and an insurgent attack killed another in the east, raising the coalition’s death toll to…

9 NATO troops die in Afghan chopper crash (AP)

September 21st, 2010

British soldiers walk towards a military helicopter during a patrol of Afghanistan's Helmand province in March 2010. British forces transferred control of security for Sangin district in southern Afghanistan to US troops, the defence ministry said on Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - A helicopter carrying international troops crashed in a rugged section of southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing nine service members in the deadliest such incident in four years for coalition…

Afghan, NATO troops pursue Haqqani fighters (AP)

August 14th, 2010

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2010 file photo, Afghans gather at the scene of an attack on a presidential adviser in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Militants attacked the second government official in the east on the same day. The convoy was hit by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a rickshaw as it was driving through city, police said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)AP - More than 20 insurgents including Arab, Chechen and Pakistani fighters have been killed by NATO and Afghan forces who are ramping up operations in the east against a…

3 NATO troops killed; doctor dies in clinic blast (AP)

June 23rd, 2010

US soldiers at an airfield in Kandahar in May 2010. US General Stanley McChrystal, the leading military commander in Afghanistan, has apologized for published remarks to a US magazine in which he and senior aides mock and criticize top American officials -- including President Barack Obama.(AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)AP - Three NATO service members were killed in attacks and the head of a provincial health department died after a bomb planted in his private clinic exploded in northern…

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