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2 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, and first Vice President Muhammad Qasim Fahim, left, participate in a function promoting members of the Afghan security forces at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. Karzai delivered a upbeat and nationalistic speech calling on Afghanistan's police and army to prepare themselves to take charge of protecting and defending the nation after the eventual exit of binternational/b forces. (AP Photo/Ahead Massoud)AP - Two more NATO service members have been killed in weekend attacks in Afghanistan, the military coalition said Sunday as Australia’s new prime minister vowed to Afghanistan’s president that…

NATO says 9 service members killed in copter 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 - Nine service members with the international coalition in Afghanistan died Tuesday after their helicopter crashed in the volatile south where troops are ramping up pressure on Taliban insurgents.


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NATO says 9 service members killed in 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 - Nine service members with the international coalition in Afghanistan died Tuesday after their helicopter crashed in the volatile south where troops are ramping up pressure on Taliban insurgents.


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5 more American troops die in Afghan fighting (AP)

August 31st, 2010

US soldiers are seen during a military parade in Kandahar province in early August. Five US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, NATO announced, as the number of Americans to die in the war in the past four days climbed to 22.(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)AP - Five more American troops were killed in action in Afghanistan on Tuesday, ending the month with a spike in bloodshed that has claimed the lives of 19 U.S.…

3 US troops die, deadliest month of Afghan war (AP)

July 30th, 2010

NATO and US soldiers are seen standing guard in Kabul. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces…

3 US troops die in deadliest month of Afghan war (AP)

July 30th, 2010

An Afghan National Police officer helps his fellow officer on to a U.S. Air Force rescue helicopter after he was shot during combat with the Taliban, in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday July 29, 2010. Rescue teams one part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Three U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in…

Taliban: 1 missing US trooper dead, other captured (AP)

July 25th, 2010

United States Marine LCpl. Brian Quinnones from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines has an unlit cigarette in his mouth following a gun battle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - The Taliban say they have killed one of the two U.S. service members who went missing two days ago and have taken the other prisoner.


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10 NATO troopers killed on deadly Afghan day (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 - Ten NATO service members, seven of them American, were killed in separate attacks Monday on the deadliest day of the year for foreign forces in Afghanistan. A U.S.…

Taliban attack key US base in Afghanistan (AP)

May 19th, 2010

US soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force patrol near Bagram Air Base. Taliban militants armed with rockets, guns and grenades attacked the largest NATO base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, sparking gun battles that killed seven insurgents and wounded seven NATO soldiers.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AP - Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault Wednesday against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, killing an American contractor and wounding nine service members in the second Taliban strike…

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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