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Attacks kill 11 Afghan police, official in north (AP)

July 11th, 2010

Afghan soldiers look on during a joint patrol with  United States soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City, Friday, July 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Militant attacks in once-calm northern Afghanistan killed at least 11 police officers and a government official whose car was hit by a remote-controlled bomb, officials said Sunday.


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Attacks kill 11 Afghan police, district chief (AP)

July 11th, 2010

A United States Army soldier from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, climbs over a high wall during a patrol in the volatile Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City, Saturday, July 10 ,2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Militant attacks in once-calm northern Afghanistan killed at least 11 police officers and a government official whose car was hit by a remote-controlled bomb, officials said Sunday.


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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…

3 British citizens on Afghan plane that crashed (AP)

May 17th, 2010

An unidentified man grieves outside the airport terminal in Kabul, upon receiving the news of the crash of a plane carrying his relative near the Salang Pass, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 17, 2010.  (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - The British Embassy in Kabul has confirmed that three British nationals were aboard a passenger plane that crashed in northern Afghanistan on Monday with 44 people on board.


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