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12 NATO fuel tankers attacked in Pakistan (AP)

October 6th, 2010

A Pakistani fire fighter tries to extinguish burning oil tankers after militants attacked a terminal in Quetta, Pakistan on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan torched a dozen tankers carrying fuel to NATO troops and killed a driver Wednesday, police said, the latest strike against supply convoys heading for Afghanistan since Pakistan shut a key border crossing last week. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - Gunmen torched a dozen tankers carrying fuel to NATO troops and killed a driver Wednesday, the sixth attack on convoys taking supplies to Afghanistan since Pakistan closed a…

Police: NATO supplies hit again in Pakistan (AP)

October 6th, 2010

A Pakistani driver stands beside an oil tanker that was attacked by suspected militants at a terminal in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. Islamist militants attacked and set fire to at least 20 tankers carrying oil for NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Monday, the third such strike inside Pakistan in as many days, police said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Gunmen in southwest Pakistan torched eight NATO oil tankers and shot dead a driver Wednesday, police said, in the latest strike against supply convoys heading for Afghanistan since…

Small bomb damages NATO oil tanker in NW Pakistan (AP)

October 5th, 2010

Pakistani fire fighters struggle to extinguish burning oil tankers after militants attacked a terminal in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, early Monday, Oct. 4, 2010.  Police say suspected militants have attacked and set on fire at least 20 oil tankers in Pakistan that were en route to NATO and US troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - A small bomb Tuesday damaged a parked truck in northwestern Pakistan that was carrying oil to NATO troops in Afghanistan — the fourth such attack on stalled NATO…

Blasts kill 4 NATO troops, up to 4 Afghan police (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, 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…

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…

Key NATO supply route hit again in Pakistan (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

A Pakistan child pedals past a truck, carrying supplies for NATO forces, parked on the roadside in Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. Some 150 trucks were still waiting for Pakistan to reopen the border crossing at Torkham so they could deliver their supplies to Western troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Police say suspected militants have attacked and set on fire at least 20 oil tankers in Pakistan that were en route to NATO and US troops in Afghanistan


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Pakistan: Key NATO supply route to reopen soon (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

A Pakistan child pedals past a truck, carrying supplies for NATO forces, parked on the roadside in Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. Some 150 trucks were still waiting for Pakistan to reopen the border crossing at Torkham so they could deliver their supplies to Western troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Pakistan will soon reopen a key NATO supply route into Afghanistan that it shut last week after three Pakistani troops were killed in a helicopter strike by the…

Pakistan: Key NATO supply route could reopen soon (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

REFILE - ADDING DROPPED WORD/p<br /></a> pZakir, a five-year-old Afghan boy displaced by floods nearly two months earlier, plays with a kite at a relief camp in Charsadda, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province October 3, 2010.  REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood  (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)AP - Pakistan indicated Sunday that its closure of a key NATO supply route into Afghanistan, shut down after a NATO helicopter attack killed three Pakistani soldiers, is a short-term…