AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama’s announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.[Read more...]
A British soldier has been shot dead in Afghanistan after his patrol base came under attack from insurgents.[Read more...]
AP - Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Others are quoting the Quran to encourage longer breaks between births. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country where one in eight women dies during pregnancy.[Read more...]
The second of three British servicemen killed in Afghanistan in as many days has been named by the Ministry of Defence as Rifleman Martin Kinggett from A Company 4 Rifles.[Read more...]
AP - The U.S. commander overseeing troops in Iraq and Afghanistan said Saturday that the military is on pace in its plans to shift away from a combat mission in Iraq, but he warned that casualties will worsen in Afghanistan.[Read more...]
AP - The Dutch coalition government collapsed Saturday over whether to extend the country’s military mission in Afghanistan, leaving uncertain the future of its 1,600 soldiers fighting there.[Read more...]
Dutch forces have been in Uruzgan since 2006 The Dutch government has collapsed over disagreements within the governing coalition on extending troop deployments in Afghanistan.After marathon talks, Christian Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende announced that the Labour Party was quitting the government. [...]
A probe into the death of a British soldier from suspected ‘friendly fire’ is under way as troops fought to gain control of Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan.[Read more...]
AP - Two U.S. rockets slammed into a home Sunday outside the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah, killing 12 civilians after Afghanistan’s president appealed to NATO to take care in its campaign to seize the town.[Read more...]
MARJAH, Afghanistan—Taliban insurgents tried to overrun a U.S. Marine outpost with a combination of rocket-propelled grenades and suicide bombers in a brazen attack just after sundown on Sunday. Video The Hard Work Starts in Afghanistan The Marines and Afghan soldiers fended off the assault, shooting the suicide attackers [...]
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