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Truck Bomb Assault on Afghanistan Base Fatally Injured Soldier
Channel 2 NewsA truck bomb detonated outside Forward Operating Base Salerno in eastern Afghanistan last week, allowing Taliban insurgents to enter the base in an attack that fatally injured Alaska-based soldier Pfc. Vincent Ellis and killed two civilians, according...Tags: NATO, Rebellions, Armed Conflicts, U.S. Army, Explosions
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Search for Captured Soldier Bowe Bergdahl Continues
The Associated PressThe search for captured Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was taken prisoner in Afghanistan three years ago,is continuing as defense leaders say the military and intelligence communities are doing everything possible to find him. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman...Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Haqqani Network, Pakistan
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Captured Soldier's Family Hopes For His Release
Captured soldier Bowe Bergdahl -- the only U.S. soldier held by the Taliban -- could be released in a possible deal that would allow insurgents to open an office in Gulf nation of Qatar with the aim of holding talks with the United States.
Bergdahl, a...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Qatar, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Alaska Airmen Return Home Safe
Channel 2 NewsAugust was the deadliest month for U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan. 67 Americans lost their lives to roadside bombs, Taliban gunfire, and an attack on a Chinook helicopter carrying Navy SEALs. But despite all that, an Alaska Air National Guard unit...Tags: Alaska, Kabul (Afghanistan), Defense, Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Taliban releases video of captured Fort Rich soldier
The Associated PressThe Taliban have released a video of a man identified as an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last June, showing him pleading for his release and return home. In the video, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, who was stationed at Fort Richardson, says he wants to...Tags: Afghanistan, Armed Forces, Defense
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Conservative Afghan lawmakers block legislation protecting women's rights
Associated PressKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience. The...Tags: Criminals, Sex Crimes, Justice System, Justice and Rights, Judges
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Anti-Taliban Afghan police chief gunned down in motorcycle attack
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- A police chief who had stood up repeatedly to the Taliban was shot and killed in a drive-by attack by four insurgents on motorcycles, officials said Saturday. The police chief, Abdul Ghani, was leaving his driveway in his car...Tags: NATO, Rebellions, Armed Conflicts, Transportation Accidents, Politics
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Police chief who launched anti-Taliban crackdown shot dead in western Afghanistan
Associated PressKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday. Police Chief Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his...Tags: Ahmed Wali Karzai, Wars and Interventions, Al-Qaeda, Explosions, Bombings
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Echoes of pain, suffering
A multigenerational saga about disrupted family ties and their repercussions over several decades, the novel begins with an ominous fable told by Saboor, a desperately poor man in a small village, to his 11-year-old son, Abdullah. As Abdullah comes to...Tags: Fiction, USA Today, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Authors, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud
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Bombings at 2 Pakistan mosques kill 10
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Bomb blasts tore through two village mosques in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 25, local authorities said. The bombings occurred in the village of Baz Darrah in the Malakand region,...Tags: Bombings, Emergency Incidents, Religion and Belief, Explosions, Pakistan
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Six Americans among at least 15 killed in Afghanistan bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S.-military contractor DynCorp International says four American employees were killed in a suicide car bombing Thursday in the Afghan capital, Kabul, bringing the number of Americans slain to six. Nine Afghan civilians were...
Tags: NATO, Suicide, Armed Conflicts, Kabul (Afghanistan), Bombings
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Afghan militants threaten more attacks after deadly bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan — A militant group said its attack Thursday on a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital marked a stepped-up campaign against the foreign presence in Afghanistan, and promised more such assaults. The suicide bombing killed six...Tags: NATO, Armed Conflicts, Wars and Interventions, Transportation Accidents, Explosions
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