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25 may have been killed in Afghanistan airstrike (AP)

October 25th, 2010

An unidentified UN security person, front, shows the place of yesterday's attack to the UN's Special Representative in Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura, center, at the UN compound in Herat, west of Kabul, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010. A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosives vests and dressed as women attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces killed the attackers and no U.N. employees were harmed, officials said.(AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - About 25 people may have been killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan on Monday, an Afghan official said.


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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…

5 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)

September 30th, 2010

British soldiers with the Royal Gurkha Rifles regiment patrol Helmand Province in June 2010. The commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan has said the Taliban are approaching the Afghan government and foreign forces about laying down arms after almost nine years of insurgency.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - Five NATO service members were killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan, the scene of heavy fighting as troops push into areas long controlled by the Taliban, the coalition said.


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NATO: Bomb blast kills 2 troops (AP)

September 26th, 2010

File picture from 2009 shows a vehicle from the US Army's 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division in Afghanistan. The US Army holds its first hearing Monday in a y war crimes case that charges five soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, from the 2nd Infantry Division's Stryker brigade with killing Afghan civilians for sport and plotting a cover-up(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)AP - Two NATO service members were killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the military alliance said.


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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…

NATO says 9 troops killed in helicopter 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 Tuesday, killing nine service members in southern Afghanistan where troops are ramping up pressure on Taliban insurgents.


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British troops leave volatile Afghan district (AP)

September 20th, 2010

Workers dismantle posters of election candidates a day after parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - Britain’s military handed the U.S. responsibility Monday for a dangerous district in southern Afghanistan that has been the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting by British troops.


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US-led troops advance in Taliban stronghold (AP)

September 15th, 2010

Afghan police walk towards protesters in Kabul September 15, 2010. Police fired into the air to disperse thousands of angry anti-American protesters in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, witnesses and police said, with at least two people suffering apparent gunshot wounds. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - U.S. and Afghan forces began advancing slowly Wednesday through the insurgent-filled district in southern Afghanistan that gave birth to the Taliban movement, treading ground where guerrilla fighters have…

Gates visits US forces in southern Afghanistan (AP)

September 3rd, 2010

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hands with US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates during a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Gates is in southern Afghanistan getting a firsthand look at operations in an area of the country where the Taliban has the most influence.


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7 US troops killed in 2 south Afghan bomb attacks (AP)

August 30th, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a trilateral regional summit in Tehran, August 5, 2010. REUTERS/Raheb HomavandiAP - Seven American service members were killed Monday in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, NATO said.


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