News of South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.)
Friday, March 19
WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- Improvised explosive devices used against U.S. forces in Afghanistan have become much more lethal in recent years, says Lt. Gen. Michael Oates.
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News of South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.)Friday, March 19WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- Improvised explosive devices used against U.S. forces in Afghanistan have become much more lethal in recent years, says Lt. Gen. Michael Oates. |
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| Thursday, March 18KABUL, Afghanistan, March 18 (UPI) -- Efforts to put in place the political and security foundation in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar have begun, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan said. |
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| Wednesday, March 17SARGODHA, Pakistan, March 17 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities Wednesday indicted five young men from Alexandria, Va., on charges of plotting terrorists attacks, their lawyer said. |
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| Tuesday, March 16COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 16 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka's former army chief, once hailed as a hero in the campaign against rebel Tamil Tigers, faces charges he says are designed to remove him from politics. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 16 (UPI) -- Most of the U.S. Special Operations forces in Afghanistan now are under direct control of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in that country said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 16 (UPI) -- A suspected strike by a U.S. unmanned aircraft in the tribal region of North Waziristan, Pakistan, killed at least 11 militants Tuesday, officials said. |
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| Monday, March 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 15 (UPI) -- NATO forces fighting militants must do more to stop cross-border traffic between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a Pakistani military official said. WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- U.S. military officials say they've recovered thousands of American-made weapons that found their way to the Taliban in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 15 (UPI) -- The Defense Department is investigating a department official who allegedly used private contractors to search for Afghan militants, officials said. |
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| Saturday, March 13KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 13 (UPI) -- A string of explosions struck Kandahar in southern Afghanistan Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding another 45, local authorities said. |
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| Friday, March 12KATHMANDU, Nepal, March 12 (UPI) -- Nepalese soldiers are accused of raping and fatally shooting a 12-year-old girl and two others inside Bardia National Park Wednesday night, officials say. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 12 (UPI) -- Three bomb blasts -- two of them targeting military vehicles -- killed at least 45 people and wounded 100 in Lahore, Pakistan, officials said Friday. |
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| Wednesday, March 10COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 10 (UPI) -- A former Sri Lankan army chief now in military custody suspended his hunger strike after being given a telephone to speak to his daughters, a relative said. |
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| Tuesday, March 9ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 9 (UPI) -- A senior Pakistani Taliban leader dismissed as propaganda reports he and two other Taliban leaders were killed in a Pakistani airstrike. |
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| Monday, March 8LAHORE, Pakistan, March 8 (UPI) -- A car bomb explosion at the main gate of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency Monday in Lahore killed at least 11 people, authorities said. |
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| Saturday, March 6ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 6 (UPI) -- Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik Saturday said several top Taliban leaders were killed when helicopter gunships targeted their hideouts. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 6 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Saturday said during a visit with soldiers stationed in Afghanistan they have the full support of their government. |
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| Friday, March 5PRAGUE, Czech Republic, March 5 (UPI) -- NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has asked the Czech Republic's government in Prague for more troops in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 5 (UPI) -- The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says coalition forces can help build leadership among Afghan security forces by serving as role models. MARJA, Afghanistan, March 5 (UPI) -- Marja, in Afghanistan's Helmand province, once the stronghold of the Taliban, is now mostly under control of the U.S. Marines, a military official said. |
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| Thursday, March 4MARJA, Afghanistan, March 4 (UPI) -- Afghan soldiers assisting U.S. Marines in Marja in Helmand province won praise from a top U.S. general as the troops secure the former Taliban stronghold town. BUCHAREST, Romania, March 4 (UPI) -- Romanian President Traian Basescu and two defense officials made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Thursday to visit Romanian NATO troops. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 4 (UPI) -- Taliban fighters attacked Pakistani security forces in a tribal area Thursday but the forces retaliated, killing about 30 insurgents, a military source said. |
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| Wednesday, March 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) -- The Pakistani army says its forces captured a network of caves near the Afghan border built to serve as the hub of the Taliban and al-Qaida. |
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| Tuesday, March 2KABUL, Afghanistan, March 2 (UPI) -- The Afghan government, citing security risks, says it plans to restrict live coverage of militant attacks, a move opposed by journalists. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 2 (UPI) -- Two of three members of the minority Sikh community kidnapped in Pakistan escaped their captors a week after the third was found decapitated, officials said. MARJA, Afghanistan, March 2 (UPI) -- The military phase of Operation Moshtarak in Marja in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province is nearing an end, top commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal said. |
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| Monday, March 1KABUL, Afghanistan, March 1 (UPI) -- Four NATO soldiers and four civilians were killed in attacks in Afghanistan Monday, officials said. |
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| Saturday, February 27WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- NATO forces this year will lead an even bigger drive into Kandahar than was seen in Marja, Obama administration officials said of the war in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Recent advances against the Taliban mean British forces could begin to withdraw from Afghanistan as early as next year, Gen. David Richards said. |
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| Friday, February 26MARJA, Afghanistan, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's national flag was raised in Marja, marking a success for NATO's Operation Moshtarak anti-Taliban offensive in Helmand province, officials said. |
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| Wednesday, February 24NAD ALI, Afghanistan, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- British troops trying to drive the Taliban from Afghanistan's Helmand province now begin the task of winning the locals' trust, officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka's Supreme Court denied a petition seeking the release of retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka, who was arrested after he lost in the presidential election. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- NATO members met in Mons, Belgium, to consider adding 2,000 or more personnel to train the army and police in Afghanistan, a spokesman said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The number of U.S. military personnel killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001 is edging toward 1,000, figures show. |
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| Tuesday, February 23ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Another top Afghan Taliban commander was captured in Pakistan, the fourth such arrest in the recent Pakistani sweep, the Los Angeles Times reported. |
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| Sunday, February 14MARJAH, Afghanistan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- NATO-led forces faced sniper fire and booby-trapped roads and buildings on the second day of a major offensive in southern Afghanistan, officials said. |
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| Saturday, February 13MARJAH, Afghanistan, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- British, U.S. and Afghan troops began house-to-house searches Saturday in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, commanders said. |
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| Friday, February 12KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- The latest offensive against the Taliban in Afghanistan will be tested by whether the area can be held once NATO troops clear it, the top U.S. commander said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers initiated a major offensive against a key Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, officials said. |
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| Thursday, February 11KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, injuring five American soldiers, an Afghan official said. |
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| Wednesday, February 10COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The U.N. secretary-general has asked Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to respect due process in the case of retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka, now in custody. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Pakistan, keen to safeguard its stake in Afghanistan after the Americans leave, wants Washington to give it a big part in resolving the war, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- At least 150 bodies were pulled from vehicles buried by an avalanche in the Salang Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military, which arrested former Gen. Sarath Fonseka this week, said Wednesday his family has unhindered access to him. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan protesters demanding the military release retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka faced police tear gas and water cannons Wednesday in Colombo, witnesses say. |
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| Tuesday, February 9COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Amnesty International says the Sri Lankan military's arrest of Gen. Sarath Fonseka, the ex-army chief, has escalated post-election repression in the country. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Anoma Fonseka, wife of Sri Lanka's former army chief, Gen. Sarath Fonseka, says she is concerned about her husband's arrest by the military. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Avalanches in an area north of Kabul killed at least two dozen people and buried about two miles of road in snow, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. MOSCOW, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Russia will not send troops to Afghanistan to battle the Taliban but will help in other ways, a top Kremlin official said Tuesday in Moscow. |
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| Monday, February 8COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan military officials said former Army Chief and losing presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka has been arrested for "military offenses." KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A senior Afghan police official, accused of helping insurgents, was arrested by NATO forces, but Afghan officials asked if it was a case of mistaken identity. MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- President Hamid Karzai expressed confidence Afghan forces will be ready to assume responsibility for all security by the time his five-year term ends. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. and British troops in Afghanistan prepared to retake Marjah, the last Taliban stronghold in the dangerous Helmand province, as the militants also dug in. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- NATO is considering Central Asian and Russian rail routes to transport supply vehicles for its troops in Afghanistan, an alliance official said. |
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| Sunday, February 7MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Three people, including two Swedish military officers, were killed in an ambush Sunday near Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, the Swedish military says. |
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| Saturday, February 6KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The head of the border police in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, said border guards shot and killed seven civilians amid concerns the Afghans were militants. |
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| Friday, February 5KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A new report recommends action against some officers in connection with a Taliban attack that killed eight soldiers at a U.S. Army outpost in Afghanistan. |
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| Thursday, February 4BRUSSELS, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- NATO admitted Thursday it has less than half the number of trainers it had pledged to help strengthen the army and police in Afghanistan, officials say. ISTANBUL, Turkey, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal predicted Thursday there will be "serious progress" in Afghanistan this year, saying leaders are more optimistic. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, fresh from his re-election win, said national reconciliation and the country's development would be his priorities. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- In an attempt to intimidate the Taliban, allied forces in Afghanistan have publicly announced the exact target of their next offensive, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, February 2KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb and a mine blast killed three coalition soldiers, two British and a Spaniard, in separate incidents in Afghanistan, their governments said. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistani Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani says his country wants a stable Afghanistan without "Talibanization." |
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| Monday, February 1RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Pakistan does not want to control Afghanistan but wants "a strategic depth" through peaceful and friendly relations, the Pakistani Army Chief said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- If the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is confirmed, his successor could be a military strategist or suicide bomb instructor, a report says. |
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| Sunday, January 31KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Pakistani Taliban leader tied to the Dec. 30 bombing of a CIA encampment in Afghanistan has died from injuries sustained in a U.S. missile strike in mid-January, Western military officials said Sunday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Pakistan said it was trying to confirm reports Sunday that Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud had died of wounds suffered in a U.S. drone attack. |
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| Saturday, January 30KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Four Afghan soldiers were killed Saturday in a friendly fire incident with NATO-led coalition troops, officials said. |
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| Friday, January 29COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Supporters of failed Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka are claiming vote-counting fraud in their country's election. LONDON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says France will not send more fighting troops to Afghanistan but could send some who can train police and army, CNN reported. |
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| Wednesday, January 27DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Five ex-army officers were hanged early Thursday for their roles in the 1975 slaying of Bangladeshi President Sheik Mujibur Rahman in a coup, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A 29-year-old man arrested in the Jan. 18 Kabul attacks said in a video released by Afghan police the incidents were planned in neighboring Pakistan. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military says there is no move to arrest retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka, the main rival in President Mahinda Rajapaksa's re-election bid. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, credited with guiding the military's victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels, Wednesday was re-elected, state TV reported. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Eight American soldiers in Afghanistan suffered minor wounds in a suicide bomb attack outside a U.S. base near Kabul, the military said. |
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| Tuesday, January 26COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa took a strong lead over retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka in Tuesday's presidential election in Sri Lanka, early results showed. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The Afghan Taliban's strategy has made its insurgency increasingly effective, says CNN, citing a briefing by the top U.S. intelligence official in the country. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan has offered a grim assessment of President Hamid Karzai as a strategic partner with the United States, documents indicated. |
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| Monday, January 25TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan will take longer to produce results than the surge in Iraq, the top U.S. commander in the region says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The Pakistani army's announcement it plans no new offensive against militants for up to a year could threaten U.S. military goals in the region, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Afghanistan should seek removal of some Taliban leaders' names from a United Nations terror list, a U.N. official said. |
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| Sunday, January 24The Taliban says it killed seven people in Pakistan's North Waziristan, accusing them of spying for U.S.-led forces in neighboring Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Security concerns and logistical challenges will postpone Afghanistan's parliamentary elections until Sept. 18, the election commission said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, January 23KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- At least 17 people were killed Saturday in Afghanistan, including two U.S. soldiers hit by a roadside bomb and seven people who were digging up an old bomb. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Researchers say they've found a thriving flock of one of the world's least-known birds living in a remote part of war-torn Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The Taliban may be part of Afghanistan's "political fabric" but they must reform to attain legitimacy, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says. |
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| Friday, January 22ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Taliban are part of Afghanistan's political scene, but they must shed their violence before reconciliation begins, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. |
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| Thursday, January 21ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The United States plans to give Pakistan unarmed spy drones to encourage its efforts against the Taliban, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Pakistan's army will not conduct any new offensives against militant groups in the country this year, a spokesman said Thursday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government canceled its parliamentary delegation's scheduled visit to India, apparently as a result of a recent cricket dispute. |
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| Wednesday, January 20ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government has asked the Lahore high court to restrict the free movement of nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan on national security grounds. |
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| Tuesday, January 19ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A suspected U.S. drone strike Tuesday killed militants in Pakistan, authorities said |
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| Sunday, January 17MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A missile attack from an unmanned U.S. plane Sunday killed at least 15 militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan, military officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The names of 645 Afghan detainees held by the American military at Bagram Air Base have been released, officials said. |
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| Saturday, January 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- For the second time, the Afghani Parliament has refused to approve the majority of President Hamid Karzai's Cabinet nominees, officials said Saturday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Pakistan's government has filed a review petition against the Supreme Court's move to overturn amnesty granted to politicians, officials said Saturday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber killed one soldier and wounded several others Saturday in an attack on the army in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, authorities said. |
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| Friday, January 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke, who was visiting Pakistan during the latest drone strike, praised the strategic relationship between the two countries. |
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| Thursday, January 14COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A BBC reporter was attacked in Sri Lanka while she was covering clashes between rival political groups, the broadcaster reported. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed Wednesday by an improvised explosive device in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- About 3,100 U.S. troops, mostly based at Fort Hood, Texas, will make up the next deployment in Afghanistan, the U.S. Defense Department said. |
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| Wednesday, January 13Afghanistan's civilian casualties in 2009 rose 14 percent from the previous year, with the Taliban responsible for most of the deaths, a U.N. report said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. soldiers since 2001 have served in combat longer than almost any of their counterparts throughout American history, military experts say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's civilian casualties in 2009 rose 14 percent from the previous year, with the Taliban responsible for most of the deaths, a U.N. report said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Gunmen in Sri Lanka fired on a bus carrying supporters of the opposition presidential candidate two weeks ahead of elections, killing a woman, police said. Afghanistan's civilian casualties in 2009 rose 14 percent from the previous year, with the Taliban responsible for most of the deaths, a U.N. report said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military closed all routes to Orakzai Agency, apparently in preparation for an offensive in the tribal region, sources told Dawn newspaper. |
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| Tuesday, January 12KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, disputing an assessment from his American counterpart, says he never had a "blank check" from the United States. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- At least eight Afghans were killed Tuesday during a protest in southern Afghanistan, after a weekend raid during which insurgents said women were assaulted KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. forces have defeated the Taliban in Afghanistan's Helmand province and reinforcements will be tasked with holding the region, a military official says. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- An award-winning Sri Lankan Tamil journalist, sentenced to 20 years for allegedly inciting violence, has won release on bail, his lawyer said. |
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| Monday, January 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Insurgency and sectarian violence killed a record 3,021 people in Pakistan last year, up 48 percent from 2008, a Pakistani think tank study found. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said Taliban forces in Afghanistan are struggling following a U.S. troop surge. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Four U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in clashes with Afghanistan insurgents, military officials said. |
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| Sunday, January 10KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Three people, including a British journalist and a U.S. Marine, were killed by a bomb blast in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, authorities said Sunday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced 16 cabinet nominations Saturday to fill positions left vacant when Parliament refused to approve earlier choices. |
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| Friday, January 8KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Several Afghan journalists' organizations have called for the release of members of a French TV crew who were abducted last month. |
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| Thursday, January 7KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is looking into accusations two Afghan teenagers were beaten and humiliated by guards while in U.S. custody last year, officials say. |
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| Wednesday, January 6NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Kai Eide, the United Nations envoy to Afghanistan, says Western allies need to invest more in that country's economy and rely less on military force. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Pakistani intelligence sources said at least 13 suspected militants were killed Wednesday in Pakistan in apparent missile attacks by U.S. drones. |
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| Tuesday, January 5ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials say they are concerned about the arrival of more U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan as the surge could drive more militants on to its soil. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered parliament, which rejected 17 of his 24 Cabinet nominees, to delay its winter recess so he can present a new nominee list. |
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| Monday, January 4KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside explosion in Afghanistan, making them the first U.S. casualties of the war in the New Year, military officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The Afghan parliament's rejection of most of Hamid Karzai's Cabinet nominees showed the president's political headaches are far from over, experts say. |
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| Saturday, January 2HERAT, Afghanistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A 2-year-old Afghan child with heart disease was flown to Italy for surgery by NATO forces in Afghanistan, authorities said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Afghanistan lawmakers Saturday rejected 17 of President Hamid Karzai's 24 Cabinet choices in a clear rebuke to the leader. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Four Canadian soldiers and the reporter who died with them were honored Friday as their bodies were flown out of an air base in Afghanistan. |
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| Friday, January 1WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Friday denounced the Pakistan terrorist attack that killed nearly 90 people, most of them children. NAURAK, Pakistan, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Two people were killed Friday in northwest Pakistan in the latest suspected U.S. drone attacks on the region, a Pakistani intelligence official said. |
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| Thursday, December 31KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The CIA confirmed Thursday that seven agency employees died in a suicide bombing at a post in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Two Pakistani intelligence officials said Thursday five people were killed in Wana, Pakistan, when security forces raided a hospital in search of militants. CAMP DWYER, Afghanistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A petty officer attached to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion in Afghanistan helped make the holidays more personal for troops and their loved ones back home. |
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| Wednesday, December 30KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A powerful roadside bomb killed four Canadian soldiers and a reporter Wednesday in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, military officials said. KHOST, Afghanistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday in an Afghan military base used by the CIA, killing at least eight U.S. civilians, U.S. officials said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- An official U.S. Army history says there were a number of missteps in the early part of the Afghan war that cost the United States the initiative. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Afghans killed in a military operation in eastern Kunar province were insurgents involved in making improvised explosive devices, a source said. |
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| Sunday, December 27KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Secretive units from U.S. military Special Operations forces are expanding throughout Afghanistan to kill some of the toughest militants, authorities said. |
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| Saturday, December 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- At least 10 people were killed Saturday when Pakistani jets struck militant strongholds in a tribal area, officials said. A Taliban commander allegedly responsible for planning attacks against NATO forces was killed by security forces in Afghanistan Saturday, officials said. PIRDAD, Afghanistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A Taliban commander allegedly responsible for planning attacks against NATO forces was killed by security forces in Afghanistan Saturday, officials said. |
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| Friday, December 25KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The Taliban in Afghanistan Friday released a video of a U.S. soldier captured in June, and NATO officials called the release of the video "a horrible act." |
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| Thursday, December 24KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb killed a Canadian officer and an Afghan soldier on foot patrol near Kandahar City, Canadian defense officials said Thursday. |
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| Monday, December 21COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka says it is studying a U.N. request to explain the alleged shootings of surrendering Tamil rebel leaders in the final days of the civil war. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Normal life was disrupted Monday in the Himalayan republic of Nepal by a Maoist-led general strike over military-related disputes with the government. |
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| Sunday, December 20KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he and his new Cabinet will be held accountable on issues such as corruption, a key demand of his Western supporters. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A one-time Pakistani elections official claims the country's anti-corruption agency tried to target Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari in 2005. |
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| Friday, December 18KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The time for talk is over in Afghanistan and now's the time to show some results, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is under renewed pressure to resign after the Supreme Court struck down an amnesty protection against corruption charges. |
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| Thursday, December 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan's defense minister was stopped from leaving on an official China trip because of a court ruling striking down an amnesty protection to officials. MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. drones struck a mountainous region in northwest Pakistan Thursday, killing at least 16 people, including Arab al-Qaida members, Pakistani officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. officials in Pakistan say the country's military and intelligence services are harassing Washington's diplomatic corps, making a tense situation tenser. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Peter Galbraith, a leading U.N. official in Afghanistan at the time of the presidential election, proposed replacing Hamid Karzai, The New York Times reported. |
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| Wednesday, December 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A reporter for the British newspaper The Guardian and two other journalists were released Wednesday after being held hostage in Afghanistan, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. special operations in Afghanistan have been strengthened as part of a strategy to get faster results in fighting the Taliban insurgency, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, December 15KABUL -- A suicide bomber killed eight Afghans on Tuesday blocks from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, in an attack that targeted a neighborhood in which many former and current Afghan officials live. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The top U.S. military official says he's concerned about the growing Afghan Taliban and al-Qaida collusion and other extremist groups taking refuge in Pakistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military is not ready to meet a U.S. demand that it go after Afghan Taliban leader Siraj Haqqani, officials said. |
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| Monday, December 14KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The United States must take action quickly to stem the momentum of Afghan insurgents, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, said Monday. LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A court in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday barred the government from deporting five Americans arrested on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka Monday accused former army chief, Gen. Sarath Fonseka, of betrayal for his claims against government in the final battle against Tamil Tiger rebels. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A big part of the intensified U.S. war effort in Afghanistan is beefed-up investments in jobs programs to lure away Taliban fighters, officials say. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said deploying an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan was the toughest decision of his presidency. NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The European allies' decision to send an additional 7,000 troops to Afghanistan is welcome but falls short of the needs there, The New York Times says. |
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| Sunday, December 13HANGU, Pakistan, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Five soldiers and at least 26 militants have died during weekend fighting in Pakistan, military officials said Sunday. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said setting a withdrawal date forces Afghan leaders to take their own security seriously. |
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| Wednesday, December 9KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Afghan army units are corrupt and lack sufficient training and discipline to take over from their American counterparts anytime soon, some U.S. trainers say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Britain has lost its 100th soldier in the Afghan war this year, but its army chief, Gen. David Richards, urged against judging the campaign by casualties alone. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, under Western pressure to crack down on government corruption as he begins another term, has delayed announcing his new Cabinet. |
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| Tuesday, December 8KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Nepal's government must arrest an army major expelled from a U.N. peacekeeping force and accused of torturing a girl to death, Amnesty International said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The top U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Afghanistan spoke before two congressional committees Tuesday, saying they both support the surge in forces. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The pledge of 7,000 more NATO troops in Afghanistan is a sign of the military alliance's commitment to the country, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. LONDON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The former British Chief of the General Staff says Prime Minister Gordon Brown didn't understand the Afghanistan War until recently. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The deployment of 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan emphasizes the U.S commitment to the country, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday in Kabul. MULTAN, Pakistan, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A bomb Tuesday in Multan, Pakistan, killed at least 12 people a day after similar blasts killed dozens more in other Pakistani cities, authorities said. LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Major Pakistani cities have been hammered by militant attacks, with the death toll since Friday topping 100, authorities said. |
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| Monday, December 7WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- About 16,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers were notified Monday they will be deployed to Afghanistan as part of President Obama's strategy, the Pentagon said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Pakistan's violence-torn Peshawar was struck again Monday when a suicide bomber detonated outside a court, killing at least five people, authorities said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan is essentially unchanged with the influx of 30,000 new troops, The Washington Post reported Monday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- At least five people have been arrested in the attack that killed 40 people at a mosque in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi, police said. |
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| Saturday, December 5LONDON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- David Cameron, head of Britain's Conservative Party, said the number of British troops in Afghanistan likely will not decrease in 2010. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A weakening of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's political position has caused little alarm in Washington, diplomatic sources say. |
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| Friday, December 4RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- At least 40 people, including four attackers, died Friday when militants struck a military mosque in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, Pakistani officials said. PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. residents are split over whether the country can achieve its goals in Afghanistan, a Gallup poll reported Friday. CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Marines said they were on the move Friday against insurgent forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Ambitious domestic and foreign agendas sought by U.S. President Obama are creating tension with Democrats on Capitol Hill, congressional members say. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and his Cabinet met Friday on Mount Everest to highlight the adverse impact of climate change on the Himalayas. |
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| Thursday, December 3WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The number of Sri Lankans who think their economy is improving jumped 28 percent to 64 percent, a national opinion poll indicated Thursday. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Some Democrats, noting the declining U.S. public support for the Afghan war, are not happy with President Barack Obama's troop surge decision. BRUSSELS, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- NATO allies pledged Wednesday to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan. |
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| Wednesday, December 2KABUL -- Afghans and Pakistanis on Wednesday greeted President Barack Obama's plan to send 30,000 to 35,000 troops to Afghanistan with limited enthusiasm, skepticism that the U.S. has enough staying power to defeat the Taliban-led insurgency, and even suspicion that the rapid surge will be followed by a speedy exit. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's move to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan is doomed to fail, Taliban militants say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The United States must ensure procedures are in place to investigate civilian deaths since more troops are heading to Afghanistan, Amnesty International said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan says the United States is making some of the same mistakes the Soviet Union did during its military campaign. FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan wants the United States to better coordinate with its armies in implementing its new Afghan strategy, Pakistan's foreign minister said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan say they are cautiously optimistic about President Barack Obama deploying an additional 30,000 troops to the country. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan should encourage other NATO allies to do the same, the head of the alliance said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, having ceded many of his powers under political pressure, may be able to keep his job at least for now, analysts said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan will rely on that country's government but the question is will the Afghans come through, The New York Times says. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says any exit strategy from Afghanistan must come after eliminating al-Qaida and defeating the Taliban. |
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| Tuesday, December 1KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan will enhance British troops' security there, British military sources said. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Military leaders fully back U.S. President Obama's strategy for Afghanistan, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacted tepidly while a Senate Republican said he welcomed President Obama's dual strategy for Afghanistan and defeating al-Qaida. WEST POINT, N.Y., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The days of giving a blank check to Afghanistan are over, U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday night in outlining his strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. WEST POINT, N.Y., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday night he hopes the surge of 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan will be complemented by more troops from U.S. allies. WEST POINT, N.Y., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said his new approach in Afghanistan would cost $30 billion for the military this year, but did not say how it would be funded. WEST POINT, N.Y., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A strategy in Afghanistan also must work in Pakistan to address a "cancer" that has taken root in the border region, U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday. WEST POINT, N.Y., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The 68,000 U.S. troops already in Afghanistan will be joined by 30,000 more U.S. forces by next summer, President Barack Obama said Tuesday. LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says by next year the Afghan army will have about 134,000 troops, up from the current 90,000. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The United States will deploy 34,000 more troops in Afghanistan, sources told The Washington Post ahead of President Barack Obama's announcement. BERLIN, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Neither America nor Britain has provided any intelligence about the presence of al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said. |
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| Monday, November 30KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- British military commanders in Afghanistan say pessimism permeating the British public about the war effort is not helping their troops. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama gave the green light to military commanders to implement his strategy in Afghanistan, the White House said Monday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- An Afghan police officer fatally shot six other officers and wounded two more at a checkpoint in the province of Nimroz, authorities said Monday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Pakistan, reacting to Britain's call that it do more to eliminate al-Qaida leaders, said |
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| Sunday, November 29LONDON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Pakistan must do more to break up al-Qaida and make "more progress in taking out" Osama bin Laden. OTTOWA, Ontario, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- As the United States escalates troop numbers in Afghanistan, Canada will end its combat mission there in 2011, Canadian officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- As many as 9,000 additional U.S. Marines shortly are expected to renew an assault on Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan, authorities said. |
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| Saturday, November 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- President Asif Ali Zardari announced Saturday he is no longer part of the group deciding when Pakistan can use its nuclear weapons. JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- New U.S. efforts to persuade rank-and-file Taliban fighters to switch sides have begun in Afghanistan with a meeting of tribal leaders, observers say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Abuse of prisoners held by the U.S. military in Afghanistan has continued under the Obama administration, two former teenage detainees allege. |
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| Friday, November 27SEOUL, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- The South Korean government is considering sending troops to Afghanistan to serve as a security force for reconstruction workers. BERLIN, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- The German Labor Ministry said Friday Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung resigned his post due to a controversial NATO airstrike in Afghanistan. Authorities in Pakistan said Friday two anti-Taliban leaders |
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| Thursday, November 26KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The Taliban have resurfaced in the once calm northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, becoming a major concern to the military, security officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Taliban militants have set up new strongholds despite Pakistan's offensive and will likely remain a potent threat to the U.S.-backed government, analysts say. BERLIN, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- German Gen. Wolfgang Schneiderhan resigned amid allegations he did not provide enough information regarding a deadly attack in Afghanistan, an official said. KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Pakistani investigators say a jailed militant claiming to be India's foreign minister made threatening calls to leaders in Pakistan last year. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A helicopter belonging to a Dutch military contractor in Afghanistan was reported missing, NATO officials said Thursday. KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, fighting for political survival amid calls for his exit, hit out against critics, calling them "pranksters." |
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| Wednesday, November 25Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar says in a message delivered on the eve of a Muslim holiday that the United States will be defeated in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar says in a message delivered on the eve of a Muslim holiday that the United States will be defeated in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- President Obama will meet with U.S. congressional leaders of both parties next week before he announces his Afghanistan policy, lawmakers' aides confirmed. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- President Obama will address the nation from the U.S. Military Academy Tuesday, when he is expected to reveal his decision about Afghanistan, officials said. LONDON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama's delay in sending more U.S. troops in Afghanistan has contributed to flagging support in Britain for the mission, an official said. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- American reaction will be divided if U.S. President Barack Obama decides to deploy an additional 34,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a national poll indicates. |
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| Tuesday, November 24WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said he believes the American people will be supportive of his decision on U.S. strategy and troop presence in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Special envoy Richard Holbrooke says the United States plans to work closely with Afghan President Hamid Karzai's new government. |
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| Monday, November 23KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Roadside-bomb and insurgent attacks killed four U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, the military said Monday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Many Pakistanis, including politicians in President Asif Ali Zardari's party, benefited from amnesty dismissing past corruption allegations, officials said. SEOUL, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- South Korean troop deployment in Afghanistan would range in the hundreds, Deputy Defense Minister Chang Soo-man told parliament Monday. |
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| Sunday, November 22MINGORA, Pakistan, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The campaign to rid Pakistan's Swat Valley of Taliban militants has cost the lives of 550 soldiers, the Army chief of staff says. |
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| Saturday, November 21KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Afghan and Canadian forces captured a Taliban-controlled village Saturday in Afghanistan's Panjwaii district, the Canadian military said. JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The United States and Afghanistan have been providing aid to anti-Taliban militias in certain parts of Afghanistan, officials said. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is talking with NATO officials about staging a coordinated rollout of a new Afghanistan war strategy, sources say. |
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| Friday, November 20KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- There was little cheering among some of the Afghans who watched Hamid Karzai's inauguration to another term as president of a country hobbled by corruption. |
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| Thursday, November 19KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Ten civilians were killed and 13 wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a police vehicle in southern Afghanistan Thursday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama won't announce his decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan before Thanksgiving, senior aides said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, November 18KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Afghanistan to attend President Hamid Karzai's inauguration, said her visit is a chance to look at next steps. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's mining minister allegedly accepted a $30 million bribe to award a major contract to a Chinese company, an unnamed U.S. official says. |
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| Tuesday, November 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Maulana Fazlullah, a notorious Taliban leader in Pakistan's Swat Valley, claims he is in Afghanistan and vows new attacks on Pakistani forces. EDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The head of NATO says he expects substantially more troops to be sent into the fray against the Afghan insurgency. SEOUL, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- South Korea made no promises to stay out of Afghanistan when it withdrew its troops in 2007, a government source said Tuesday. |
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| Monday, November 16ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Pakistan's fight against militants will be decided based on its own priorities and resources and not at the urging of others, its foreign minister said. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama's national security adviser was sent to Pakistan to urge a wider Pakistani military effort against Islamic militants, U.S. officials say. |
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| Sunday, November 15DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they may have discovered what caused arsenic to appear in drinking water in Bangladesh. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- At least 17 Taliban militants were slain Sunday in a series of clashes with Pakistani government troops in South Waziristan and Swat, officials said. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is insisting that military options for the costly war in Afghanistan include the quickest possible exit strategy, officials said. |
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| Saturday, November 14KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Improvised explosive devices have killed two U.S. soldiers and a U.S. civilian contractor in Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said Saturday. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Rescue crews in the Himalayas Saturday recovered the body of a Slovenian climber killed while on a solo ascent, officials say. LONDON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The British government is pressing Afghanistan to open negotiations with Taliban leaders in a reconciliation bid, The Guardian reported Saturday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A suspected Taliban commander believed to be responsible for several attacks was among militants detained in Afghanistan, military officials said. |
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| Friday, November 13WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan alleges China provided his country with enough uranium in 1982 to make two atomic bombs. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A car bomb exploded Friday near a U.S. military base outside Kabul, injuring three coalition soldiers, Afghan authorities said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Separate bombings Friday in Pakistan's violence-ravaged Peshawar and in Bannu district killed several people and injured dozens more, authorities said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The bombing of the Inter-Services Intelligence's Peshawar office pointed to further escalation of the militants' fight against the Pakistani establishment. LONDON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The former head of the British Defense Staff blasted the government's Afghanistan policy Friday in a debate in the House of Lords. |
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| Thursday, November 12WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The White House Thursday stressed the need for an exit strategy from Afghanistan and said U.S. success there would depend on a strong Afghan government. TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Australian officials said a special forces dog that went missing in action in Afghanistan has been found alive and well more than a year later. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The head of Sri Lanka's armed forces, fresh from a civil war-ending victory over Tamil Tiger rebels and a promotion, has quit, government officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A Norwegian freelance journalist taken hostage in Afghanistan a week ago was set free Thursday by his captors, authorities in Kabul said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The Taliban has stepped up use of visual arts on the Internet and television in a campaign to win the Afghan propaganda war, officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Pakistani Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani and his generals are satisfied with the military's preparedness in its counterinsurgency operation, officials said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A landmine explosion and an ambush by militants killed at least 10 Pakistani soldiers in separate incidents in the northwest region, security officials said. |
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| Wednesday, November 11WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday rejected all four options presented by advisers in Pakistan strategy discussions, a White House source said. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday rejected all four options presented by advisers in Pakistan strategy discussions, a White House source said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Shifting alliances between a weakened al-Qaida and an emboldened Taliban will figure in U.S. decisions on sending more troops to Afghanistan, analysts say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A military dive team found the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who disappeared last week in northwest Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman said Wednesday. |
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| Tuesday, November 10WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The White House said Monday a report that President Barack Obama has decided to send a large number of troops to Afghanistan "is absolutely false." |
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| Monday, November 9ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Pakistani Foreign Ministry dismissed as "totally baseless" a report in The New Yorker about the United States offering to protect its nuclear weapons. |
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| Sunday, November 8KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry says U.N. Special Representative Kai Eide is overstepping his bounds in the country. |
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| Saturday, November 7KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A NATO air strike killed seven Afghan security force members searching for two missing U.S. soldiers, officials said Saturday. LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A total of 10 V-22 Ospreys, military aircraft used by the U.S. Marines, are in Afghanistan after departing an amphibious assault ship, the military said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Overnight clashes in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region resulted in 15 militants' deaths, military sources said Saturday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Many Afghans say their government should negotiate with Taliban insurgents and question if more U.S. troops can help, interviews reveal. |
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| Friday, November 6KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A search was under way Friday for two NATO soldiers who failed to return from a routine supply mission in western Afghanistan, officials said. LONDON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The former head of the British Defense Staff blasted the government's Afghanistan policy Friday in a debate in the House of Lords. OTTAWA, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The Canadian military has been ordered to start making plans for withdrawing from its combat role in the NATO mission in Afghanistan, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A spokeswoman for the NATO-led force in Afghanistan said Friday that searches for two missing force members have proved fruitless. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Two gunmen on a motorcycle fired at a Pakistani brigadier's vehicle in Islamabad Friday, wounding him in the second such attack on an army officer in a month. |
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| Thursday, November 5LONDON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The deaths of five British troops prompted political, diplomatic and military officials to warn public support would fade without a clear Afghan strategy. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military, claiming success in its South Waziristan offensive, says the three-week old operation is entering a decisive phase. WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. military says it is rushing its new M-ATV blast resistant vehicles to Afghanistan to protect its troops from weapons including roadside bombs. |
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| Wednesday, November 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Pakistani women's rights activists won a victory when the National Assembly passed a bill calling for harsher punishment for sexual harassment of women. BAGRAM, Afghanistan, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. troops in Afghanistan are suffering a "significant increase" in spinal injuries, doctors at the U.S. military hospital in Bagram say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Fighting escalating insurgency and ending government graft are seen as Afghan President Hamid Karzai's immediate challenges as he begins another term. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The Pakistani army claimed another success in its South Waziristan offensive, saying its troops had taken control of the Taliban's operational nerve centre. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The government of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has decided against pushing a bill to protect lawmakers from corruption cases, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, November 3KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai risks losing U.S. support if he does not meet a six-month deadline to cut corruption and oust his brother, Afghan officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military says its forces have taken control of Kaniguram, a key militant stronghold, in their counterinsurgency in South Waziristan. |
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| Monday, November 2KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The United States will help the Afghan government to clean up corruption and initiate reforms, but U.S. bounty isn't limitless, President Obama said Monday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- At least 35 people died Monday when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside of a bank in a busy area of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, officials said. SEOUL, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- South Korea prepared for its move to send personnel to Afghanistan by holding an inter-agency meeting Monday, officials said. |
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| Sunday, November 1SANGIN, Afghanistan, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A soldier from Britain's Royal Logistic Corps has died in a blast in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, military officials said Sunday. TONGI, Bangladesh, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Two people died and 100 were injured during a confrontation between police and unpaid workers at a Bangladesh garment factory, authorities said Sunday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's rival Sunday withdrew from the Nov. 7 runoff election, saying the runoff would be as fraudulent as the first round of voting. |
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| Saturday, October 31KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's opponent, likely will announce this weekend he will boycott the Nov. 7 runoff election, a source told CNN. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Afghanistan has arrested six men on charges of planning a bombing that killed five United Nations staffers, the national security chief said Saturday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- At least seven Pakistani soldiers and 15 Taliban militants died Saturday in battles in the Waziristan region near the Afghan border, authorities said. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has asked his military and civilian advisers for more options on sending additional troops to Afghanistan, sources say. LONDON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A British army officer killed in Afghanistan in July warned of equipment shortages shortly before he died, a leaked e-mail revealed. |
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| Friday, October 30KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's election commission, despite safety and fraud concerns, says it will open at least 6,300 polling places for a Nov. 7 presidential runoff election. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Pakistani army personnel found a passport of a man linked to two hijackers involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, officials said. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama resumes discussions on reassessing the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, officials said. |
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| Thursday, October 29WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama, working on his Afghanistan strategy, wants a detailed analysis of the situation in every province in Afghanistan, an official said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan says he believes the Nov. 7 presidential runoff election will not be as flawed as the Aug. 20 polls. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The United States has quietly shipped substantial military equipment in recent months to aid Pakistan's fight against militants, officials of both nations said. |
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| Wednesday, October 28KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Low visibility was blamed for the helicopter crash in Afghanistan in which seven U.S. troops and three U.S. civilians died, military officials said Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who arrived in Islamabad Wednesday, praised the Pakistani military's counterinsurgency offensive in South Waziristan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Afghan militants Wednesday attacked a United Nations guesthouse in Kabul, killing and wounding several U.N. employees, authorities said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- At least 90 people, most of them women, were killed when a car bomb tore through a busy market in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, a government official said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the Pakistani capital even as the terrorism-ravaged nation convulsed under another attack in Peshawar. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday her government is looking to engage with Taliban militants who want to break away from al-Qaida. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Some Pakistanis escaping the military's offensive in South Waziristan say they think the campaign is only a "drama" to please the United States. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Pakistani military officials say their next target is the Sararogha plains as their troops push deeper into the terror groups' strongholds in South Waziristan. |
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| Tuesday, October 27KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The CIA makes regular payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, U.S. officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Eight U.S. troops and an Afghan civilian working with NATO forces died Tuesday in multiple-bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, military officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Pakistan's counterinsurgency action in South Waziristan may be welcome in the United States but it is putting pressure on internal relations, officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces killed at least 22 militants Tuesday in clashes with insurgents in the South Waziristan and Mohmand tribal areas, the military said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the election commission chief should be removed to ensure a fair presidential runoff election next month. |
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| Monday, October 26WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama's decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan still is expected within the next few weeks, a White House spokesman said Monday. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal's troop request for Afghanistan overreaches and is overly fast, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Monday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Drug Enforcement Administration employees were among the 14 Americans killed when three helicopters went down in Afghanistan Monday, a U.S. official said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. military officials in Kabul say they will phase in tan-colored Stryker armored vehicles to blend in with the Afghanistan countryside. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a week after accepting a runoff election against rival Abdullah Abdullah, is confident he will win the contest, his aides said. |
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| Sunday, October 25KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Afghan protesters burned an effigy of President Barack Obama Sunday in reaction to rumors, denied by U.S. officials, that U.S. troops desecrated the Koran. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A vehicle accelerated toward NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, drawing gunfire that left four civilians dead, military officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Taliban fighters battling Pakistani troops in South Waziristan could target schools, markets and mosques, military officials warned Sunday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah said he would rather be in opposition than a power-sharing arrangement with Hamid Karzai. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has no plans to offer a power-sharing government to his rival in the coming second-round election, a spokesman said Saturday. |
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| Saturday, October 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The Pakistani army has captured the South Waziristan hometown of the Taliban's leader, officials said Saturday. LONDON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Britain is right to be in Afghanistan fighting Taliban insurgents and its troops deserve more support, Prince Andrew says. NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- U.N. relief officials are preparing to assist as many as 250,000 Pakistanis fleeing fighting between government and militants in Waziristan. |
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| Friday, October 23BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- NATO defense ministers, meeting in Slovakia, Friday agreed on priorities for Afghanistan through 2010 and a security transition concept when the time is right. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber, in the latest attack on Pakistani security forces, struck near an air force facility Friday, killing at least six people, authorities said. WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Poland will send 600 more soldiers to Afghanistan next spring, the Polish Defense Ministry announced Friday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Election officials began distributing millions of ballots, tamper-proof ink and equipment across Afghanistan for the Nov. 7 presidential runoff election. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber, in the latest attack on Pakistani security forces, struck near an air force facility Friday, killing at least six people, authorities said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. drones are providing intelligence and surveillance to the Pakistani military for its offensive against terrorists in South Waziristan, officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. State Department report has appealed to Sri Lanka to investigate war crimes allegations by both its army and Tamil rebels during their final campaign. |
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| Thursday, October 22KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, downplaying fraud accusations in August's election, said he agreed to a runoff for the sake of democracy. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Two men on a motorcycle fired on an army vehicle in a military officials' residential area in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing an officer and a soldier, police say. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama says it is possible an Afghan strategy may be decided before the Nov. 7 Afghan presidential runoff but it may not be announced. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Plans are being developed to ensure Afghanistan's presidential runoff election is held as scheduled, the U.N. special representative to Afghanistan said. |
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| Wednesday, October 21TOKYO, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Japan's new government intends to re-examine the military's role in Afghanistan, the incoming defense minister told reporters. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb killed one American in southern Afghanistan, NATO officials said Wednesday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's acceptance of a presidential runoff didn't come easily but is still only the first step in a hard process, a U.S. official said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief opponent says he is under no pressure to join a coalition to avoid the presidential runoff, which is set for Nov. 7. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military's counterinsurgency offensive in South Waziristan was encountering stiff resistance in the Mehsud tribal areas, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, October 20DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Taliban guerrillas recaptured the birthplace of the Pakistani Taliban leader from the Pakistani army Tuesday, inflicting the heaviest military losses so far in Pakistan's high-stakes offensive in South Waziristan, a refuge for Pakistani extremists, Afghan insurgents and al-Qaida. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The United Nations will push to ensure that Afghanistan's presidential runoff is as credible as possible, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military has enough men and material to mount a prolonged counterinsurgency against the militants, a spokesman said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The man who placed second behind Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the presidential election said he was prepared for a runoff as well as other options. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Pakistan has sought U.S. help in relief efforts for civilians escaping from the current ground and air offensive against militants in South Waziristan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military is progressing in its offensive against militants in South Waziristan despite stiff resistance, officials said Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Pakistan's army chief, in an open letter to the Mehsud tribes, asked for their support in the military's current push against militants in South Waziristan. |
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| Monday, October 19KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- An investigation of electoral fraud has reduced Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's vote total to 48.3 percent, election observers said Monday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- An estimated 100,000 civilians fled Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area where troops and Taliban militants clashed for a third day Monday, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's campaign hinted he may not accept results of a recount of votes from the August election. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Pakistan's military said it moved farther into mountainous militant terrain Sunday and hit key Taliban and al Qaida strongholds in South Waziristan. |
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| Sunday, October 18KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- An improvised explosive device attack killed a U.S. service member in Afghanistan Sunday, military officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The announcement of final results in Afghanistan's presidential election has been delayed, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Pakistan's military Sunday reported 60 militants and five of its soldiers died during the first day of an offensive to rout the Taliban from South Waziristan. |
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| Saturday, October 17KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Foreign leaders have reportedly been pressuring Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accept a second-round vote in the presidential election. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- At least 12 Pakistani soldiers were killed early Saturday as the army moved into South Waziristan in an offensive against Taliban strongholds. |
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| Friday, October 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan killed four U.S. soldiers, the military said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has garnered about 47 percent of the vote in the country's contested election, which will lead to a runoff, officials said. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Uncertainty about Afghan leadership will complicate Washington's decision on whether to send additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, a key lawmaker said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Pakistani airstrikes killed more than 20 militants in South Waziristan as the country convulsed in a wave of terror attacks, the military said. |
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| Thursday, October 15ROME, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Italian officials denied a British media report that Italy paid Taliban forces not to attack Italian troops stationed in the Sarobi region of Afghanistan. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Top U.S. lawmakers, noting Pakistan's concerns over the $7.5 billion aid package, rejected any suggestion Washington seeks to micromanage Pakistani affairs. |
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| Wednesday, October 14ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Pakistani military planes pounded militant hideouts in South Waziristan for the second straight day, killing several people, military officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says "there were instances of fraud" in the August elections but the whole process was free and democratic. |
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| Tuesday, October 13ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistani planes struck militants in tribal areas as the army prepared for a ground assault against the Taliban and other terror groups, officials said. |
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| Monday, October 12ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Two explosions in Pakistan Monday killed at least 69 people and injured scores of others in the latest of a string of attacks in the country, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Police in Pakistan warned military officials an attack like the one on a Pakistani Army headquarters Saturday was being planned, Pakistani officials said. |
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| Sunday, October 11COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka's ruling party scored a landslide win in a key provincial election that could pave the way for an early presidential election, authorities said. LONDON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Pakistan is capable of safeguarding its atomic arsenal despite increasing threats from militants, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Three hostages and four Taliban militants died when special forces stormed Pakistani Army headquarters to rescue 42 hostages Sunday, a military spokesman said. |
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| Saturday, October 10RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Pakistani special forces freed 22 hostages Sunday who had been held by Taliban militants at the Army headquarters in Rawalpindi, a military spokesman said. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A U.S. military adviser says anything fewer than 25,000 additional troops won't be enough to turn around the Afghan war effort. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. troops abandoned a remote Afghan outpost, where eight soldiers were killed, on their own terms and were not forced out as the Taliban claim, officials say. SHARANA, Afghanistan, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Some former mujahedeen guerrillas who battled the Russians are aiding the U.S.-led effort against the Taliban in Afghanistan, authorities said. |
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| Friday, October 9KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. forces have pulled out of a remote base in Afghanistan where the Taliban killed eight soldiers last weekend, officials said Friday. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's advisers say the Afghan Taliban are so firmly entrenched, it is unrealistic to believe they can be eliminated, officials said. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is probably several weeks away from making a decision about the situation in Afghanistan, the White House said Friday. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Two leading U.S. Democratic Party lawmakers, opposed to a troop buildup in Afghanistan, warn such a step could lead to efforts to cut off funds for it. |
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| Thursday, October 8KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A suicide car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding at least 83, Afghan officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A top U.N. envoy decried accusations of favoritism in the Afghan presidential election, saying he was committed to ensuring a credible outcome is determined. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Pakistan's military, preparing for a major offensive in South Waziristan, expects "tough resistance" from the Taliban and al-Qaida, a spokesman said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Pakistan's military and its opposition parties are attacking the $7.5 billion U.S. civilian aid package as interference in the country's internal affairs. |
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| Wednesday, October 7WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama is weighing a shift in war strategy to focus more on al-Qaida in Pakistan and less on the Taliban in Afghanistan, officials said. MALE, Maldives, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The president of the Maldives says he and his entire Cabinet will hold a meeting underwater to demonstrate the threat of global warming. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Weekend attacks on two U.S. outposts in eastern Afghanistan in which eight U.S. soldiers died were fierce, a military official said. |
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| Tuesday, October 6BRUSSELS, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- NATO, in an effort to have Afghans take more responsibility for their country's security, will soon start training the local police, the alliance leader said. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama told congressional leaders Tuesday he remains undecided on a U.S. troop increase in Afghanistan, people who were at the meeting said. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The Taliban has the "momentum right now" in Afghanistan but it cannot be allowed to win, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. |
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| Monday, October 5KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Two NATO soldiers in Afghanistan, one of them an American, died Monday of injuries, NATO military officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth, visiting Afghanistan, faced repeated requests from British soldiers there for additional troops, officials said. |
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| Sunday, October 4KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Eight U.S. troops died in tribal militia attacks on two remote American outposts in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, military officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Amid allegations of widespread fraud, the main challenger in Afghanistan's presidential elections called for an inquiry Saturday into the United Nations' role. |
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| Saturday, October 3KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The International Security Assistance Force says several suspected militants were killed or detained Saturday in Afghanistan's Kandahar and Paktika provinces. |
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| Friday, October 2TOKYO, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Japan is highlighting its contribution to the international community by providing training to former Taliban soldiers, its foreign ministry announced Friday. MIHTARLAM, Afghanistan, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- An official in Afghanistan's Laghman Province says the introduction of a saffron crop to the Mehtar Lam district should prove beneficial. |
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| Thursday, October 1ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Suicide attackers killed four Pakistani soldiers and wounded two others Thursday, the Pakistani military said. |
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| Tuesday, September 29UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The coming weeks will be crucial for Afghanistan, the United Nations' top envoy to the country told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday. |
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| Monday, September 28LONDON, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A Conservatives-led government in Britain would be "sympathetic" to requests for more troops in Afghanistan, a party leader said. NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. pilots say they are getting used to new rules of engagement that restrict when and where they can attack ground targets in Afghanistan. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan military officials said troops fired on several displaced Tamils trying to escape from a camp where they have been kept since May. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says setting a timetable for an exit from Afghanistan would be a strategic mistake. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Britain's top commander in Afghanistan says he supports calls for more troops in that country as a way to assuring its long-term stability. |
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| Sunday, September 27KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. and NATO nations involved in Afghanistan will work with President Hamid Karzai on a new counterinsurgency strategy, a U.S. official said. |
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| Saturday, September 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Two suicide car bomb attacks Saturday killed at least 20 people and injured more than 150 others in northwest Pakistan, sending an ominous signal that the death of Taliban leader Baitullah Mahsud during the summer will not curb the Islamic militants' agenda for violence in this nuclear-armed state. UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The United Nations is urging Afghanistan to make sure the August elections were clean and honest before the results are confirmed. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen met in Germany with top U.S. and NATO military commanders to discuss Afghanistan troop needs, sources say. |
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| Friday, September 25WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A new wave of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan apparently has been fanned by reports of a U.S. military buildup and embassy "spy houses," officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Five U.S. soldiers were killed in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said. |
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| Thursday, September 24WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said "a whole-of-governments approach" is needed in the fight against terrorism around the world. SRINAGER, India, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Separate gun battles between militants and security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir left eight people dead, including an Indian army officer, police said. |
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| Wednesday, September 23KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says he welcomes debate within the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama over his assessment report. NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Afghanistan cannot be allowed to become a sanctuary again for terrorists, the NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is looking at different Afghan options, including going after al-Qaida both in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, officials said. GORAK SHEP, Nepal, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Three adventurers say they have successfully completed an extremely high-altitude skydive, jumping from 20,000 feet onto a spot near Mount Everest in Nepal. |
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| Tuesday, September 22KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he supports the call from the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan for more U.S. troops in his country. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's detention centers have become Taliban and al-Qaida sanctuaries, says an assessment report by the U.S. and NATO military commander in that country. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has ordered his forces from thinly populated areas redeployed to major centers, military officials said. |
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| Monday, September 21LONDON, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Britain may provide up to 1,000 more troops in response to a call from the U.S. and NATO commander for more troops in Afghanistan, senior officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- A key aide to the chief of the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat region has been arrested, military officials said Monday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Allegations of fraud are so widespread that nearly one in four votes cast in last month's Afghanistan presidential election are suspect, data indicates. |
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| Sunday, September 20TOKYO, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A multinational conference scheduled in Japan will ask warring parties in Afghanistan to replace combat troops with a peace-keeping force, officials said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Taliban commander Sher Mohammad Qasab died Sunday from bullet wounds suffered during his arrest in Pakistan's Swat Valley, authorities said. KOHAT, Pakistan, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber killed two soldiers and injured four other people at a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, authorities said Sunday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The death toll from a car bombing in Afghanistan has risen to 26, including six Italian soldiers whose bodies were returned to Italy Sunday, officials said. |
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| Saturday, September 19OTTAWA, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Canadian army officials in Afghanistan were concerned about Afghan soldiers having sex with children as long ago as 2007, documents indicate. |
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| Friday, September 18PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A suicide car bomber set off a huge explosion Friday in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwest region, killing at least 30 people, police said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa says he expects the resettlement of 265,000 displaced Tamil people to be completed by the end of the year. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The Canadian military's death toll in Afghanistan this month rose to four in a roadside bombing that killed one soldier and injured 11 others, officials said. ROME, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says his country's troops should leave Afghanistan quickly after six Italian soldiers died in a bombing in Kabul. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says doubts should not be cast on his country's election, whose uncertified results show he won his bid for a second term. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's election crisis could leave that country without a leader for a long time, a prospect raising concern in the United States, a U.S. official said. |
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A powerful suicide-bomb attack struck a convoy of Italian NATO troops Thursday along a major roadway in the heart of Afghanistan's capital, killing six service members and at least 10 civilians, NATO and Afghan officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Afghan election officials are readying for an October run-off though uncertified results say President Hamid Karzai won, a source told The Guardian. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai won last month's polls based on the final uncertified count but the European Union has raised new doubts about the outcome. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A explosives-packed vehicle struck an Italian convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, killing at least 16 soldiers and civilians, military officials said. |
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| Wednesday, September 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Final, unofficial results from Afghanistan's presidential election show President Hamid Karzai won enough votes to avoid a runoff, an election panel said. |
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| Tuesday, September 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The president of Pakistan says he wants a South African-style truth and reconciliation commission to heal the rifts caused by the country's violent past. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Members of the Independent Election Committee have begun a recount of ballots cast in Afghanistan's presidential election before the results are official. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith, a member of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, has been ordered out the country by his boss, sources say. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- U.N. envoy B. Lynn Pascoe said he will raise the issue of resettling displaced Tamils in Sri Lankan camps on his visit to the island nation. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Drug addiction centered in a filthy Kabul section threatens an HIV/AIDS epidemic in Afghanistan, already the world's top opium producer, a CNN report says. |
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| Monday, September 14WARDAK, Afghanistan, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- An effort in Afghanistan to pay villagers to protect their neighborhoods loosely resembles the Awakening Councils idea used in Iraq, officials say. |
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| Sunday, September 13KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- NATO officials say U.S. troops that came under deadly fire in Afghanistan were not denied air cover due to new rules aimed at protecting civilians. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Four U.S. soldiers have been killed in separate actions in Afghanistan, military authorities said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, September 12KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A cache of rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other Taliban weapons were discovered by troops in northern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, September 11KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The rescue of New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, drew a mixed bag of comments Friday. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A key Senate Democrat says the United States must speed training and equipping of Afghan security forces before increasing U.S. combat troops in Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A senior Taliban leader in the Swat region was arrested by Pakistani security forces, the Pakistani army said Friday. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A bus fell into a river while traveling on a hilly terrain in Nepal, killing at least 20 people and leaving others missing, police said. |
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| Thursday, September 10ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A volunteer militia with fighters as young as 16 has played a critical role in the fight against the Taliban in Pakistan, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The British soldier who died in a raid that rescued a New York Times reporter in Afghanistan was described as "immensely capable" by his commanding officer. SANGIN, Afghanistan, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Prince Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, made an unadvertised visit to British troops in Afghanistan, Buckingham Palace said Thursday. BANDARBAN, Bangladesh, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A new study in Bangladesh suggests tigecycline -- the first member of a new class of antibiotics -- might be effective against multi-drug-resistant malaria. THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo says the tribunal is investigating allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The Electoral Complaints Commission said Thursday it has invalidated an unspecified number of fraudulent ballots from Afghanistan's presidential election. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The death of an Afghan interpreter during the rescue of a New York Times reporter from the Taliban has sparked anger among Afghan journalists and others. |
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| Wednesday, September 9KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The number of airstrikes by coalition forces in Afghanistan has dropped dramatically in the past three months, a U.S. Air Force official says. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's election commission declared its latest vote count although the complaints commission had earlier ordered some recounts, says a report. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The United States stressed the importance of a "legitimate electoral process" in Afghanistan, where preliminary results show President Hamid Karzai winning. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Suspected U.S. drone strikes against militants killed at least five people in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, security officials told the BBC. AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- A military scholar says New Zealand soldiers may have endangered their comrades by posing with a bomb carrying a message for the Taliban. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- It may be weeks before the Afghan election results are certified because mounting vote fraud complaints must be resolved first, officials say. |
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| Tuesday, September 8KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The Electoral Complaints Commission Tuesday ordered a partial recount of ballots from Afghanistan's presidential elections last month. BERLIN, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A deadly Afghanistan airstrike ordered by a German commander has roiled Germany's election campaign and sparked calls for an investigation, observers said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A suicide car bomb attack Tuesday near the main entrance to the NATO air base in Kabul killed three civilians, Afghan police said. |
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| Monday, September 7KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. and U.N. officials Monday discussed alleged vote fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election with President Hamid Karzai, U.S. officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. soldiers disrespected Afghan culture while raiding a hospital by tying up security guards and searching women's wards, an aid worker claims. |
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| Sunday, September 6KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Afghan election officials said Sunday they have set aside ballots from nearly 450 polling places pending a fraud investigation. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A NATO airstrike that killed 125 people in Afghanistan, many said to be civilians, was guided by a single informant, military officials say. |
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| Saturday, September 5KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, traveled Saturday to the place where civilians may have been killed in an air strike. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- About 35 militants were killed in a helicopter gunship assault by troops in Pakistan's Khyber Pass region, paramilitary Frontier Corps officials said Saturday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Taliban militants killed a NATO soldier and attacked a convoy of German troops in separate parts of Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, September 4WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The Canadian government will set off several fake bombs at its Washington embassy compound this month to demonstrate its NATO combat role in Afghanistan. |
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| Thursday, September 3KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A tribal leader in Kandahar Province accused supporters of Afghan President Hamid Karzai of flagrant voter fraud. |
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| Wednesday, September 2KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The Taliban's improved fighting techniques are making them more effective and have taken U.S. forces by surprise, senior military sources in Afghanistan say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother shut down polling places in a district where the local leaders supported his opponent, the area's governor says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces killed 43militants in fighting in the violence-ravaged northwest region, the military said. |
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| Tuesday, September 1WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Record U.S. casualties in Afghanistan are sparking White House fears that demands will mount for a premature military withdrawal, sources say. |
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| Monday, August 31KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan called for a revised strategy and greater unity to defeat insurgents affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaida. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed Monday by roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan, military officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- J.S. Tissainayagam, a Sri Lankan journalist praised by U.S. President Barack Obama, has drawn a 20-year prison sentence on terrorism charges, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The willingness to vote shown by Afghanistan women five years ago was not as apparent during this year's presidential elections, advocates say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. military in Afghanistan says it is canceling a $1.5 million contract with a public relations firm that assesses journalists' "style and tone." |
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| Sunday, August 30KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Rising complaints about Afghanistan's elections are causing concern among Western officials, who say they may put the legitimacy of the polls into question. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber killed at least 15 police officers and wounded another 12 Sunday at a training center in Mingora, Pakistan, authorities said. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Pakistan is denying it illegally modified U.S. missiles to expand its arsenal against India, senior U.S. officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on a surprise visit Saturday to Afghanistan, suggested more troops might be sent while pushing a strategy to reduce British forces. |
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| Saturday, August 29KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Vote tallies released Saturday show Afghan President Hamid Karzai has extended his lead in Afghanistan's presidential election. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- CBS News says its award-winning war correspondent Cami McCormick was injured in an explosion in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Incumbent Hamid Karzai's relationship with U.S. officials has worsened since Afghanistan's presidential election, diplomatic authorities said. |
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| Friday, August 28LAHORE, Pakistan, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Pakistan lifted remaining restrictions Friday on movements of a rogue scientist who had confessed to selling nuclear technology to several countries. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The effects of climate change on Nepal will mean more suffering for millions of people living in extreme poverty, an international aid agency said. BRUSSELS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The number of Afghan youths migrating to Europe grew in the past two years as conditions in their home country crumbled, aid groups across Europe say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- There have been fewer civilian deaths in Afghanistan since the new U.S. commander took charge of NATO forces in that country, figures indicate. |
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| Thursday, August 27KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Both sides are denying the special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan had a heated argument with President Hamid Karzai following the Afghan election, the BBC reports. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A member of the U.S. military assigned to the International Security Assistance Force was killed on patrol in southern Afghanistan, officials told CNN Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, August 26KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A run-off still appeared possible in Afghanistan's presidential election, though incomplete results showed incumbent Hamid Karzai widening his lead. LONDON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A British soldier died Tuesday at a hospital in England of injuries suffered 10 days ago in Afghanistan, the military said. |
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| Tuesday, August 25KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai holds a slim lead in the nation's presidential election based on partial returns, election officials announced. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A huge truck bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday killed tens of people and wounded scores of others, police said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A U.N. official urged calm and patience in Afghanistan as election officials deal with the various complaints relating to last week's polls. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The main opponent of Hamid Karzai in the Afghanistan elections accused the president of rigging the elections. |
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| Monday, August 24KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- It may be weeks before official results of last week's Afghan elections are known, as elections officials say they must first deal with rising complaints. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's supporters claimed a big re-election Monday win as election officials prepared to declare partial results of last week's polls. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- An Afghan man who spent six years as a U.S. prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is nearly free in Afghanistan, his defense attorney says. EDGARTOWN, Mass., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A spokesman said Monday U.S. President Barack Obama will wait for a review from the U.S. commander in Afghanistan to decide on more troops or changing strategy. |
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| Sunday, August 23ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A Pakistani official Sunday said at least three plots against public buildings were thwarted and troops would continue to fight the Taliban during Ramadan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Nearly 225 complaints have been filed with an independent commission examining Afghanistan's presidential election, officials said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, August 22KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The Afghanistan presidential election was marred by fraud and intimidation, including two women whose fingers were cut off, a watchdog group says. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- A 59-year-old soldier from Washington state has become the oldest U.S. service member to die in Afghanistan, military officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The government of Pakistan has asked Sri Lanka to train its soldiers in counter-insurgency tactics, officials say. |
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| Friday, August 21KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Both candidates contending to be Afghanistan's president declared themselves ahead in the vote count, campaign staffers said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The two top contenders to be Afghanistan's next president each declared victory Friday as votes were being tallied from the previous day's election. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government, faced with chronic power shortage in the country, approved a $10.8 billion, 4,500 megawatt Diamer-Bhasha dam on the Indus River. |
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| Thursday, August 20KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- A NATO bomber destroyed a British helicopter in Afghanistan after the Chinook was damaged by Taliban fire, forcing the crew to make an emergency landing. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Afghan officials said election-day violence led to the deaths of 26 people nationwide, but still called Thursday's vote a success. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- As Afghans voted Thursday in their presidential poll, experts said a big voter turnout in the violence-ravaged nation could turn the tide against the Taliban. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Afghan police Thursday arrested two militants who had been planning bomb attacks in the northeast as people voted in the presidential poll, authorities said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Pakistan's prime minister says treason charges can be brought against former President Pervez Musharraf only after a consensus Parliament resolution. |
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| Wednesday, August 19WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Poland said it will spend $420 million on new equipment for its NATO-led troops after a general alleged Poles were an easy target in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Pre-election violence gripped Afghanistan Wednesday as gunmen battled police in Kabul and a heavy security lid was clamped onto the capital, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The Afghanistan government is facing a moment of truth for its fledgling democracy as its second-ever presidential election approaches, observers say. |
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| Tuesday, August 18KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The Afghan government says it has told news organizations not to report on Election Day violence because doing so would discourage people from voting. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Just two days before Afghanistan's elections, a suicide bombing killed five people and rocket fire damaged the presidential palace in Kabul, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- In the run-up to Afghanistan's presidential election Thursday, Afghans still express concern about significant human rights issues, Human Rights Watch says. |
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| Monday, August 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke, who arrived in Pakistan, praised that country's fight against the Taliban. |
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| Sunday, August 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The death toll for British armed forces in Afghanistan reached 201 Sunday with the overnight death of a soldier, military officials said. |
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| Saturday, August 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Islamic extremists bent on getting their hands on nuclear weapons have attacked Pakistani facilities three times in the past two years, an expert says. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A car bombing Saturday near the NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed at least seven people and injured more than 100, officials say. MIANPOSHTEH, Afghanistan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. Marines are encountering many areas of Afghanistan's Helmand province where Kabul has virtually no authority, slowing anti-Taliban efforts, observers say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai may end up in a runoff in the upcoming election in spite of a big lead over his closest rival, a poll released Friday suggests. |
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| Friday, August 14QALAI BOST VILLAGE, Afghanistan, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The United States is urging Afghanistan farmers to stop raising poppies as a possible way to eliminate the country's flourishing drug trade, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. military leaders in Afghanistan say they're considering pulling troops from some of the country's more remote regions along the Pakistan border. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday it is impossible to predict how long U.S. troops will be fighting in Afghanistan. |
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| Thursday, August 13KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Voters in explosive southern Afghanistan will be protected during the presidential elections as a result of a series of ceasefire deals, NATO said Thursday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistanis give their national government the lowest approval ratings in a decade, a study released Thursday indicated. SANGIN, Afghanistan, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Three Britons and one American were killed Thursday in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, spokesman for NATO and Britain's Defense Ministry said. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- More Afghans will be able to vote safely in the Aug. 20 presidential elections because of security improvements, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says. |
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| Wednesday, August 12NAWZAD, Afghanistan, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- The Pentagon said Wednesday it will increase U.S. operations, allowing Afghan forces to secure Taliban-controlled areas in Helmand Province. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is systematically rigging the Aug. 20 presidential election in his southern home base, witnesses claim. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Marines and Afghan troops are heading to southeast Afghanistan for a protection detail during the country's upcoming election, military officials said. |
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| Tuesday, August 11WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. funding for non-military spending on Afghanistan should be increased by about 60 percent over what the White House has requested, a U.S. diplomat said. WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A 32-year-old NATO soldier from Poland was killed and four others were injured in a Taliban attack in eastern Afghanistan, military officials said Tuesday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. officials are exploring the idea of establishing a chief executive slot below Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, an Afghan source says. |
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| Sunday, August 9KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The United Nations says security concerns have hampered the run-up to this month's national elections in Afghanistan. LONDON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- British soldiers could be in Afghanistan for the next 30 to 40 years, the head of the General Staff said in an interview Saturday. |
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| Saturday, August 8ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A young Pakistani Taliban leader seen as jockeying for leadership of the militant group has been killed in a feud, intelligence officials say. OTTAWA, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The Canadian government will provide another $15 million in aid to Sri Lanka, which is recovering from a lengthy violent rebellion, an official says. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. and British officials say they are offering incentives to Afghan farmers to entice them to switch from growing poppies used to make heroin to other crops. |
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| Friday, August 7KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. costs in Afghanistan could soar if it is decided to boost substantially the size of the Afghan military and police force, experts warn. |
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| Thursday, August 6KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb explosion in western Afghanistan hit a NATO vehicle Thursday, killing four U.S. soldiers, the alliance's ISAF Web site said. BANGKOK, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The alleged arms dealer of the Tamil Tiger rebel group was arrested in Bangkok, a report on state television in Sri Lanka said Thursday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Rising violence in Afghanistan in the run up to the Aug. 20 presidential election took a big toll Thursday with 27 people killed, including a U.S. soldier. |
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| Wednesday, August 5LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- New vehicles that will beef up protection of troops from Afghan roadside bombs have been delayed, British defense sources said Wednesday. |
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| Tuesday, August 4KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The winner of the Aug. 20 Afghanistan presidential election will have a reduced mandate because of doubts about the legitimacy of the poll, analysts say. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Up to eight rockets fired by militants hit Afghanistan's capital Kabul early Tuesday, Afghan officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb attack Tuesday in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province killed a security agent and injured nine persons, police said. |
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| Monday, August 3POKHARA, Nepal, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The Nepalese tourist spot Mattikhan Hill in Pokhara has been renamed Mattikhan Lumley View in honor of British actress Joanna Lumley and her father James. LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A British House of Commons leader says the government must better explain why soldiers are dying in Afghanistan or risk losing public support. LAHORE, Pakistan, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The killing of Christians in Gojra in Pakistan's Punjab province is part of a larger pattern of growing intolerance toward them, some say. |
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| Sunday, August 2LAHORE, Pakistan, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A zoo in Lahore, Pakistan, has been mired in mismanagement and inhumane treatment of its animals, critics allege. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Nine NATO soldiers died in weekend fighting in Afghanistan after a record number of troop deaths in July, authorities said. |
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| Saturday, August 1KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A decade of civil war, corruption and poor environmental policies has left parts of Nepal with poisonously polluted air, authorities and residents said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Reducing civilian casualties in Afghanistan will be a top priority, the new commander of U.S. and NATO-led troops in the country says. |
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| Friday, July 31ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 31 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court of Pakistan says the emergency rule imposed by former President Pervez Musharraf was unconstitutional and unlawful. BEIJING, July 31 (UPI) -- China has delivered the first of four F-22P frigates it is manufacturing for Pakistan, a military official says. WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- The United States is not sure how far the Pakistani army succeeded in destroying the Taliban in the Swat Valley, Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 31 (UPI) -- Taliban forces shot and killed a pro-government militia leader in Pakistan's Swat Valley region, in renewed violence that came despite a long military campaign. |
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| Thursday, July 30ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 30 (UPI) -- Pakistan's air force is relying more on intelligence such as images from spy planes for precision targeting of militants, officials and analysts say. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 30 (UPI) -- British surgeons called in an American surgical team to help at the main field hospital in Afghanistan after a surge in wounded, a surgeon said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, July 29ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 29 (UPI) -- Pakistani boys, some as young as 9 rescued from a Taliban camp, were being indoctrinated to become suicide bombers, the Pakistani military said. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 29 (UPI) -- A roadside bomb explosion Tuesday in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan killed eight Afghan contractors, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, July 28KABUL, Afghanistan, July 28 (UPI) -- A campaign worker was wounded and a bodyguard was killed in an attack on representatives of a presidential candidate in Afghanistan, officials said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, July 28 (UPI) -- A toxic chemical in a widely used pain reliever and fever reducer is believed to have killed 25 children in six weeks, Bangladesh authorities said Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 28 (UPI) -- Pakistan will take steps to safeguard its security in the wake of the launch of a nuclear-powered submarine by neighboring India, the government said. |
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| Monday, July 27ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 27 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military's plan to go after the Taliban in South Waziristan is more than 2 months old but the Washington Post says it has yet to take off. BRUSSELS, July 27 (UPI) -- NATO allies need to include talks with moderate elements of the Taliban in their Afghanistan peace efforts, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says. |
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| Sunday, July 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 26 (UPI) -- New U.S. initiatives in Pakistan are yielding results such as intelligence sharing on operations along the border with Afghanistan, U.S. officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 26 (UPI) -- Gunmen attacked a convoy carrying a candidate for vice president of Afghanistan Sunday, but he escaped without injury, officials said. KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 26 (UPI) -- British actress Joanna Lumley says she is excited to meet Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav during her visit as part of a veterans campaign. |
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| Saturday, July 25KABUL, Afghanistan, July 25 (UPI) -- Afghan security forces halted a series of coordinated suicide attacks Saturday in the eastern city of Khost, military officials said. |
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| Friday, July 24KABUL, Afghanistan, July 24 (UPI) -- Support is growing for Abdullah Abdullah, who is emerging as a clear challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in next month's elections, observers say. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 24 (UPI) -- U.S. military officers in Afghanistan are no longer releasing the number of militants who are killed in fighting with American-led forces, officials say. |
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| Thursday, July 23KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 23 (UPI) -- Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal called for a fresh inquiry into the June 1, 2001, palace massacre of the former Himalayan kingdom's royal family. |
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| Wednesday, July 22KABUL, Afghanistan, July 22 (UPI) -- Two U.S. troops and one British soldier died in bomb blasts in Afghanistan Wednesday, military officials said. LONDON, July 22 (UPI) -- Retiring Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Mark Malloch-Brown agrees that British troops in Afghanistan don't have enough helicopters. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 21 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials are expressing reservations about the expanded war in Afghanistan by U.S.-led forces, saying it could drive militants into Pakistan. |
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| Tuesday, July 21KABUL, Afghanistan, July 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. military air strike Tuesday targeted Afghanistan's poppy crop in an attempt to staunch the Taliban's cash flow from opium and heroin sales. |
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| Monday, July 20KABUL, Afghanistan, July 20 (UPI) -- Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside explosion in eastern Afghanistan as a major anti-militant campaign by the Marines and British troops was under way. KABAL, Afghanistan, July 20 (UPI) -- Preparations are under way for August elections in Afghanistan, including ensuring enough security, the biggest challenge, the United Nations said Monday. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 20 (UPI) -- Taliban forces may have spirited a missing U.S. soldier from Afghanistan to neighboring Pakistan, ABC News reported Monday. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 20 (UPI) -- A military jet crashed in southern Afghanistan Monday, the latest such crash involving coalition aircraft in three days, authorities said. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 20 (UPI) -- Worries a prison at the U.S. Bagram military base in Afghanistan is turning into a Taliban recruiting ground are prompting changes, a report indicates. |
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| Sunday, July 19KABUL, Afghanistan, July 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. military says it appears captured Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl was forced to make a video calling on Americans to urge a withdrawal from Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 19 (UPI) -- Sixteen people were killed Sunday in the crash of a U.S. civilian helicopter in Afghanistan, and a second copter made an emergency landing, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 19 (UPI) -- An explosion in Afghanistan's Baluchi Valley killed an Australian soldier and wounded four other people, including a child, military officials said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, July 18KABUL, Afghanistan, July 18 (UPI) -- Afghan planners intend to solve Kabul's housing crisis by building a new "Greater Kabul" to the northeast of the city, officials said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, July 18 (UPI) -- Rivers near Dhaka, Bangladesh, are biologically dead and especially toxic during dry seasons, a water resource expert said Saturday. WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- The war in Afghanistan cannot be won within the next year and may lose public support if U.S. forces do not show progress, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 18 (UPI) -- An estimated 3,000 child soldiers are to be released by November from camps in Nepal holding former Maoist rebel fighters, authorities said. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 18 (UPI) -- Two U.S. jet fighter pilots died Saturday when their F-15E crashed in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. |
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| Friday, July 17LONDON, July 17 (UPI) -- The head of the British Army warned of strategic failure in Afghanistan Friday as he demanded more permanent troops for that country. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Supreme Court Friday acquitted Nawaz Sharif in a plane hijacking case going back to when he was prime minister. |
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| Thursday, July 16KABUL, Afghanistan, July 16 (UPI) -- U.S. soldiers in eastern Afghanistan are distributing and posting leaflets about a comrade believed to have been kidnapped in the area, the military said. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, July 16 (UPI) -- A Pakistan resident says he is among a number of poor individuals forced to sell kidneys to pay debts or feed their families. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 16 (UPI) -- A Sri Lankan commission says it could not find evidence the country's military was involved in the deaths of 17 French charity workers in 2006. |
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| Wednesday, July 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 15 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a new audio message urged Pakistanis to support Islamic militants in their country against the United States. |
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| Tuesday, July 14MUMBAI, July 14 (UPI) -- Conservationists are calling for protection for a herd of 200 wild elephants that destroyed a couple of hundred homes in Nepal after migrating from India. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 14 (UPI) -- A Sri Lankan commission says there was no involvement by government forces in the deaths of 17 French charity workers in the country's northeast. KATHMANDU, Nepal, July 14 (UPI) -- Nepalese health experts were trying to contain a diarrhea epidemic in the western region, where more than 100 have already died. |
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| Monday, July 13KABUL, Afghanistan, July 13 (UPI) -- Aides to Afghan President Hamid Karzai are worried about what they privately say is his poor reelection campaign effort, The Washington Post reported Monday. |
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| Sunday, July 12TURBAT, Pakistan, July 12 (UPI) -- Islamabad faces a growing second insurgency in its southwest were those who want Baluchistan separated from Pakistan are gaining strength, analysts say. LONDON, July 12 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the Taliban must be defeated in Afghanistan to avoid more terrorist acts on the streets of his country. |
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| Saturday, July 11KABUL, Afghanistan, July 11 (UPI) -- The British government was bracing Saturday for negative fallout after the military suffered one of its bloodiest days ever in Afghanistan, analysts say. |
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| Friday, July 10WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, believes the Afghan army and police must expand more rapidly than planned, officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 10 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari reportedly admitted this week that his country created extremist groups to achieve short-term tactical objectives. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 10 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan Ministry of Health says a dengue outbreak has killed 168 people in the country since January. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 10 (UPI) -- Pakistan's military has the ability to broker cease-fire negotiations between Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and the United States, a military spokesman says. |
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| Thursday, July 9KABUL, Afghanistan, July 9 (UPI) -- There were 736 attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan using roadside bombs in June, a monthly record, the U.S. military says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 9 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Thursday northwest Pakistan residents displaced from their homes by militant violence can soon return home. NEW DELHI, July 9 (UPI) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will meet in Egypt, the Indian government confirmed Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, July 8LONDON, July 8 (UPI) -- Britain has no plans to buy new helicopters for its troops in Afghanistan, but will instead transfer existing ones there, the Minister of Defense says. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Marine general commanding the offensive in southern Afghanistan said Wednesday more Afghan troops should be involved in the fight against the Taliban. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 8 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says extremism and militancy in his country originated from the government itself. GERESHK, Afghanistan, July 8 (UPI) -- An explosion in Afghanistan's Helmand province has killed a British soldier taking part in an anti-Taliban operation, the Ministry of Defense says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 8 (UPI) -- A suspected attack by an unmanned U.S. military aircraft killed eight militants and wounded five others Wednesday in Pakistan, Pakistani officials said. |
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| Tuesday, July 7ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 7 (UPI) -- Children are being used in attacks by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistani and U.S. officials say. A suspected attack by a U.S. military drone hit a training camp run by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud Tuesday, killing at least 12, officials said. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, July 7 (UPI) -- A non-combat-related military helicopter crash in Afghanistan killed two Canadians and a British soldier, officials in Kandahar said. |
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| Monday, July 6MOSCOW, July 6 (UPI) -- The United States and Russia agreed to help Afghanistan with economic and security objectives, and provide transit across Russia for U.S. military equipment. |
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| Sunday, July 5PAKTIA, Afghanistan, July 5 (UPI) -- Afghanistan police said Sunday 16 United Nations workers have vanished in the eastern part of the country. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 5 (UPI) -- Two British soldiers were killed in a clash with Taliban militants in central Helmand in Afghanistan, military sources said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 5 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military killed 26 Taliban militants Saturday in the area where a military helicopter crashed the day before. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 5 (UPI) -- Taliban militants attacked a small U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border Saturday, killing two soldiers. |
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| Saturday, July 4PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 4 (UPI) -- A deadly crash of a military transport helicopter in Pakistan may have been caused by overcrowding, an expert says. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 4 (UPI) -- British troops moving into Afghanistan's restive Helmand province say they're encountering little resistance from Taliban insurgents. |
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| Friday, July 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 3 (UPI) -- At least 26 members of the Pakistani armed forces died Friday when a military transport helicopter crashed in the Northwest Frontier province, officials said. MOSCOW, July 3 (UPI) -- Russian leaders have agreed to allow U.S. military planes carrying troops and equipment to use their country's airspace, officials said Friday. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. troops may face a tough time wresting Afghan provinces from Taliban control as many villagers have accepted the militants' rules, local leaders say. |
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| Thursday, July 2KABUL, Afghanistan, July 2 (UPI) -- A missing U.S. soldier thought to have been captured in southeastern Afghanistan has been sold to a militant clan, a U.S. military official said Thursday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 2 (UPI) -- Mullah Fazlullah, the notorious Taliban leader in Pakistan's Swat Valley, was seriously wounded in a military attack, Pakistan's interior minister told the BBC. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Kurram Agency Thursday awaited calm after a reported cease-fire among warring factions as troops began deploying there to fight the Taliban. |
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| Wednesday, July 1KABUL, Afghanistan, July 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Marine-led assault in Afghanistan's Helmand province is designed to wrest control of the poppy-growing region from the Taliban, the military said. KABUL, Afghanistan, July 1 (UPI) -- About 4,000 U.S. troops and 650 Afghan soldiers are going after the Taliban in Afghanistan's Helmand province in a "major operation," the U.S. military said. |
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| Tuesday, June 30MIRAMSHAH, Pakistan, June 30 (UPI) -- Jet bombers hit Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area Tuesday, killing seven people, residents and other sources said. NEW YORK, June 26 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai appears poised to win re-election even though most voters view him largely as a failure, political observers say. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 30 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan government, after claiming a crushing victory last month over Tamil Tiger rebels, may offer amnesty to some rebel suspects, an official said. |
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| Monday, June 29ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 29 (UPI) -- Secret U.S. drone flights will provide surveillance data to Pakistani military in its campaign against Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 28 (UPI) -- An ambush on a military convoy by militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region killed 12 soldiers, military officials said. |
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| Sunday, June 28PARACHINAR, Pakistan, June 28 (UPI) -- At least 33 people were killed and 65 others wounded in sectarian fighting in Pakistan's Kurram region bordering Afghanistan, local officials said. |
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| Friday, June 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 26 (UPI) -- Visiting U.S. national security adviser Gen. James Jones praised the Pakistani government's anti-terrorist campaign, the state-run news agency said. NEW YORK, June 26 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai appears poised to win re-election even though most voters view him largely as a failure, political observers say. |
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| Thursday, June 25ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 25 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government is concerned the Taliban, driven out of the Swat Valley, might try to regroup in the south, the interior minister said. |
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| Wednesday, June 24KABUL, Afghanistan, June 24 (UPI) -- Former terrorism detainees at the U.S. Bagram military base in Afghanistan say they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs. |
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| Tuesday, June 23KABUL, Afghanistan, June 23 (UPI) -- The value of good government has become a theme for Western officials with the approach of Afghanistan's August presidential election, analysts say. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 23 (UPI) -- A Gallup Poll conducted late last year in Afghanistan indicated President Hamid Karzai was the most trusted figure in the country, the pollsters said Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 23 (UPI) -- Qari Zainuddin, a rival of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, was shot and killed Tuesday in the northwest region, the victim's aide told Geo TV. |
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| Monday, June 22ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 22 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, in an opinion piece in The Washington Post, appealed for more assistance from the West to help Pakistan fight terrorists. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 22 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military says its operation against the Taliban in the Swat Valley area is in its final stage, with 1,592 terrorists killed thus far. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 22 (UPI) -- Mustafa Abul-Yazeed, al-Qaida's leader in Afghanistan, says the group would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons against the United States if it possessed them. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. policy for airstrikes in Afghanistan will be curtailed to help reduce the number of civilian deaths, the U.S. troop commander in the country said. |
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| Sunday, June 21KABUL, Afghanistan, June 21 (UPI) -- An attack on the United States' Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan resulted in the deaths of two NATO soldiers and the wounding of six others, officials say. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 21 (UPI) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six others wounded Sunday in a rocket attack inside a heavily fortified compound in Afghanistan, the military said. SEOUL, June 21 (UPI) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told political leaders Saturday he discussed with U.S. President Barack Obama sending Korean troops to Afghanistan. |
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| Saturday, June 20KABUL, Afghanistan, June 20 (UPI) -- A soldier serving with the Welsh Guards in Afghanistan has become the 169th member of the British military to be killed there, officials said Saturday. New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from his Taliban captors in Pakistan and has found his way to freedom, the newspaper said Saturday. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 20 (UPI) -- New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from his Taliban captors in Pakistan and has found his way to freedom, the newspaper said Saturday. WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) -- U.S. airstrikes that accidentally killed at least 26 Afghanistan civilians in May were "appropriate," a Defense Department report indicates. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 20 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials announced the military campaign against the Taliban in the Swat Valley is almost finished and said residents may begin coming home Saturday. |
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| Friday, June 19ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 19 (UPI) -- Missile strikes at suspected militant hideouts In Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area killed several people, authorities said. |
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| Thursday, June 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 18 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops killed 22 militants and arrested 17 others during a 24-hour period, the military said Wednesday. |
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| Wednesday, June 17KABUL, Afghanistan, June 17 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will face a key challenge from two of his former ministers in his bid for another term in the country's Aug. 20 elections. |
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| Monday, June 15KABUL, Afghanistan, June 15 (UPI) -- The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says troops must ensure the safety of main population centers while fighting Taliban militants. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 15 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal took command of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan Monday during a ceremony in Kabul. |
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| Sunday, June 14ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 14 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military, encouraged by recent successes against the Taliban, plans to go after the group's leader, Baitullah Mehsud, an official said. |
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| Saturday, June 13ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 13 (UPI) -- Pakistan is building an army garrison in the Swat Valley and raising the pay of soldiers fighting militants in Malakand, President Asif Ali Zardari said. |
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| Friday, June 12KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 12 (UPI) -- A British soldier has been killed in a southern Afghanistan explosion, the British Ministry of Defense announced Friday. NEW DELHI, June 12 (UPI) -- India plans to withdraw its troops from counterinsurgency operations in Kashmir, for years a disputed territory and battlefield, India's home minister says. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 12 (UPI) -- Violence hit Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday with casualties reported, two days after a huge explosion at the city's Pearl Continental Hotel killed at least 16. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 12 (UPI) -- A U.N. official says many of the tens of thousands of displaced Sri Lankan Tamils may still be in shelters a year from now despite government promises. |
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| Wednesday, June 10PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 10 (UPI) -- The death toll from the suicide bombing of a posh hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, rose to 16 as crews pulled more bodies from the debris, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10 (UPI) -- Pakistanis in the Taliban-ravaged northwest region have taken up arms to support their military's offensive against the militants, a minister said. |
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| Tuesday, June 9KABUL, Afghanistan, June 8 (UPI) -- Up to 60 Taliban militants died in Afghanistan during the past week as more U.S. troops arrived in the country, Afghan security officials said. |
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| Monday, June 8COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 8 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka says a cargo ship it suspected of carrying military supplies for Tamil rebels contains only food, medical items and similar goods. KABUL, Afghanistan, June 8 (UPI) -- U.S. efforts to mold an effective fighting force in Afghanistan have been plagued by lack of resources and shaky loyalty among troops, interviews show. |
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| Saturday, June 6WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- Pakistan diverted U.S. aid meant for fighting Taliban terrorists to bolster its conventional warfare capabilities against India, documents indicate. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 6 (UPI) -- A meeting between U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani included a plea for debt forgiveness, officials said. SAKHAKOT, Pakistan, June 6 (UPI) -- Two leaders of a Pakistani Islamic militant group were slain when a prisoner convoy they were riding in was attacked, officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, June 5LONDON, June 5 (UPI) -- A 19-year-old rifleman from Reading has become the 137th British serviceman to die from hostile fire in Afghanistan, the military says. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 5 (UPI) -- Residents used a break in a curfew to flee their homes in Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan Friday, following evacuation orders, officials said. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, June 5 (UPI) -- Pakistani Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani says the monthslong military offensive in the Swat Valley in the country's northwest has blunted Taliban resistance there. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 5 (UPI) -- The prolonged Taliban insurgency in Pakistan may be turning the people, especially those hit by its brutality, against the militants, observers say. |
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| Thursday, June 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 4 (UPI) -- The United States has given more than half of all the aid Pakistan has received to help its displaced persons in the northwest, envoy Richard Holbrooke said. |
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| Wednesday, June 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 3 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden purportedly saying U.S. policy in Pakistan foments hate is just more of the same old rhetoric, the White House said Wednesday. WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- To win the war in Afghanistan, allied forces must try hard to avoid civilian casualties, says the U.S. general nominated to take command of NATO forces there. |
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| Tuesday, June 2LONDON, June 2 (UPI) -- Britain and other European Union nations sold military equipment to Sri Lanka in the last years of its war against Tamil rebels, documents indicate. |
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| Monday, June 1NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says there were "unacceptably high" civilian casualties in the final battle between the Sri Lankan military and Tamil Tigers. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 1 (UPI) -- Pakistan's offensive against Islamic extremists in the country's northwest, coupled with U.S. drone missile attacks, is disrupting al-Qaida, sources say. |
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| Sunday, May 31KABUL, Afghanistan, May 31 (UPI) -- U.S.-led coalition troops Sunday killed 10 militants who ambushed a combat patrol in Afghanistan's Farah province, military officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 31 (UPI) -- At least 40 Taliban fighters and four Pakistani security officers were killed in an eight-hour gun battle in South Waziristan, government officials said. |
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| Saturday, May 30KABUL, Afghanistan, May 30 (UPI) -- Two British special forces squadrons have deployed to Afghanistan for covert operations against the Taliban, military officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 30 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan officials say a published report claiming more than 20,000 civilians were killed during their attack on Tamil rebels is totally false. |
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| Friday, May 29COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 29 (UPI) -- Subramaniam Shivathai, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam women's force, has been arrested in Sri Lanka, police said Friday. DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 29 (UPI) -- An acute shortage of clean water and food in the coastal areas of Bangladesh battered by Cyclone Aila has brought an outbreak of deadly diarrhea, officials say. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 29 (UPI) -- Some 20,000 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians died mostly in military shelling in the final push to defeat the Tamil Tigers, The Times of London reported Friday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 29 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan army says the parents of Vellupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels reported dead, are housed in a camp for displaced civilians. |
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| Thursday, May 28COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 28 (UPI) -- The visit of the U.N. secretary-general to Sri Lanka's main refugee camp for Tamil civilians has helped improve access to the facility, aid workers said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 28 (UPI) -- The United Nations has offered support to Sri Lanka's efforts to deal with large numbers of refugees following the end of the Tamil Tiger war, officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 28 (UPI) -- North Korea's nuclear capabilities may be grabbing headlines, but U.S. officials say growth of nuclear programs in Pakistan and India also are of concern. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 28 (UPI) -- A formal decision on the dismissal of Nepal's army chief will be taken soon, the country's new prime minister said. |
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| Wednesday, May 27WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department is considering changing tactics and deploying specialized troops to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan, a military source said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 27 (UPI) -- Afghan and coalition forces killed four militants and seized 10 others Wednesday in two provinces in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military says. |
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| Tuesday, May 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 26 (UPI) -- A peace gesture by Taliban militants being pounded by the Pakistani army in the country's northwest has been rejected, the military said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 26 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is now free to run for Parliament and hold public office, the country's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 26 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has turned down the Tamil Tigers' offer to take the democratic route in their struggle. |
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| Monday, May 25BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, May 25 (UPI) -- Memorial Day took on a special meaning for 106 U.S. service members who became U.S. citizens Monday while stationed in the Afghan war zone. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 25 (UPI) -- Pakistan is having to contend with throngs of displaced people while its army successfully battles militants in its northwestern region, officials say. |
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| Sunday, May 24KABUL, Afghanistan, May 24 (UPI) -- A Taliban leader freed after being detained both at Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan claims he was mistreated by the U.S. military. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 24 (UPI) -- The Tamil Tigers' prolonged civil war in Sri Lanka may have ended but the plight of those displaced by the fighting remains dire, officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 24 (UPI) -- Officials in Pakistan say they have captured from Taliban forces important neighborhoods in Mingora, the largest city in the contested Swat Valley. |
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| Saturday, May 23ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani army has entered Mingora, the largest town in Swat valley, and a street-to-street battle is raging with the Taliban, the military said Saturday. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 23 (UPI) -- Incidents of rhinoceros poaching are on the rise in Nepal, an official said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force Academy says it's mourning the death of its first female graduate to be killed by enemy forces in Afghanistan or Iraq. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 23 (UPI) -- Pakistan's assault on Taliban militants in the Swat Valley is an opportunity to help rid the entire world of extremism, President Asif Ali Zardari says. |
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| Friday, May 22PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 22 (UPI) -- At least eight people were killed Friday in Peshawar, Pakistan, when a bomb in a parked car exploded by a crowded movie theater, police say. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 22 (UPI) -- More than 6,200 Sri Lankan security personnel were killed fighting the Tamil Tigers in the past three years, a government official said. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 22 (UPI) -- Nepal may soon have a new prime minister, ending the political deadlock brought on by the resignation of Pushpa Kamal Dahal. |
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| Thursday, May 21COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 21 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka says it has drawn up a six-month plan to resettle the more than 275,000 Tamils displaced in the latest military campaign against Tamil rebels. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 21 (UPI) -- A Nepalese climber holding the record of climbing Mount Everest the most number of times bettered it Thursday with his 19th success on the world's tallest peak. MARJEH, Afghanistan, May 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Forces in Afghanistan said Thursday 16 militants have been killed and a cache of drugs and weapons has been located as part of an ongoing operation. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 21 (UPI) -- Some children in camps for people displaced by Sri Lanka's Tamil rebel conflict have been abducted, international human rights groups say. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. troop pullout is being raised by Afghan and Pakistani leaders and the Taliban in talks with intermediaries about a possible peace accord, leaders said. |
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| Wednesday, May 20KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 (UPI) -- NATO commanders Wednesday said international coalition troops continued to clash with Afghan militants in a southern insurgent stronghold. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 (UPI) -- Unsolicited Bibles a U.S. church sent to Afghanistan were confiscated and burned by the military, a Defense Department spokesman said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 (UPI) -- Results of a military investigation into a recent U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan indicate the bombings killed up to 65 Taliban militants and up to 30 civilians. TORONTO, May 20 (UPI) -- Canada's defense minister said after meeting with Pakistani President Asif Zardari he is considering ending an 11-year-old arms embargo. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 (UPI) -- White phosphorous, which can inflict severe burns, is used by militants to attack NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, coalition force officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 20 (UPI) -- The United Nations, demanding full access to Sri Lankan refugee camps, says the number of displaced persons in these shelters may reach 250,000 this week. |
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| Tuesday, May 19KABUL, Afghanistan, May 19 (UPI) -- Former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is negotiating with President Hamid Karzai to take a role in his government, diplomatic sources say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 19 (UPI) -- Pakistan's main opposition party, the Muslim League, says it's backing the government's assault on Taliban militants in the Swat Valley. |
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| Monday, May 18KABUL, Afghanistan, May 18 (UPI) -- A brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he survived an assassination attempt by gunmen who fired on his convoy Monday, killing one of his bodyguards. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 18 (UPI) -- The leader of the Tamil Tigers rebels has died in battle along with his son and several key rebel leaders, the Sri Lankan military said Monday. |
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| Sunday, May 17ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan needs billions more in foreign aid to rout militants from the Afghanistan border -- a stronghold of Osama bin Laden, President Asif Ali Zardari said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan's army has killed more 1,000 militants and nearly eliminated Taliban control of the North West Frontier Province, military officials said Sunday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 17 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan Army has begun its final mopping up of Tamil Tiger fighters trapped in the northeastern part of the country, the Ministry of Defense said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, May 16COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 16 (UPI) -- The long civil war in Sri Lanka appeared to be in its final hours Saturday with the Tamil Tigers cut off from the sea. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 16 (UPI) -- A raid designed to destabilize an eastern Afghanistan militant network resulted in the death of an armed militant, U.S. military officials say. |
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| Friday, May 15ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Taliban insurgents in Pakistan's Swat valley may be preparing to fight the army on the streets of the scenic district's main city, as soldiers and guerrillas adopt surprising conventional war tactics. HERAT, Afghanistan, May 15 (UPI) -- An Afghan national says Taliban forces in Farah province's Bala Boluk district fled the area before it was targeted by U.S. airstrikes on May 4. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 15 (UPI) -- Thousands of civilians fled Pakistan's Swat Valley Friday as the military suspended a curfew for eight hours in the battle-torn area, officials said |
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| Thursday, May 14COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 14 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military says it rescued 3,300 trapped Tamil civilians in the northeastern safety zone, but aid agencies gave a grim picture of the situation. WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- Efforts to rid Afghanistan of the Taliban depends on successfully ridding Pakistan of the militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. TORONTO, May 14 (UPI) -- Ontario's premier called on Ottawa and the United Nations Thursday to pressure all sides to end the Sri Lanka war between the government and the Tamil Tigers. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 14 (UPI) -- The Taliban warned they will arrest the families of Pakistani officials in the troubled northwest region if the officials don't resign. |
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| Wednesday, May 13KABUL, Afghanistan, May 13 (UPI) -- Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. President Barack Obama's choice to lead the war in Afghanistan, will need to expand his military vision, analysts say. KHOST, Afghanistan, May 13 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber targeting a U.S. base in Afghanistan killed seven people when he drove his vehicle near Camp Salerno entrance, the U.S. military said. |
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| Tuesday, May 12WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- The United States and Britain Tuesday called for an immediate end to hostilities in Sri Lanka, where civilian casualties have continued to mount. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has begun flying armed Predator drones inside Pakistan with the cooperation of Islamabad, a U.S. official said. FARAH CITY, Afghanistan, May 12 (UPI) -- The Afghan government made payments Tuesday to the families of 140 civilians reportedly killed in U.S. bombing in Farah Province. KHOST, Afghanistan, May 12 (UPI) -- Taliban militants stormed municipal buildings in Khost, Afghanistan, Tuesday, taking hostages and engaging in deadly fighting, U.S. and local officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 12 (UPI) -- Declassified U.S. documents indicate the Taliban have been using British-made white phosphorus as a weapon against NATO troops in Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 12 (UPI) -- A suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft strike on a village in Pakistan's tribal region killed nine people and wounded others Tuesday, Pakistani officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 12 (UPI) -- A United Nations official should be disciplined for accusing Sri Lanka of causing a civilian "bloodbath" in its war with militants, Sri Lankan diplomats said. May 12--A top aide defended Gen. David McKiernan after his dismissal as Afghanistan theater commander Monday, saying many of the civilians who died in U.S. air strikes last week had been forced into target buildings by the Taliban and required to shoot at government forces. |
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| Monday, May 11COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 11 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan Tamil rebels claimed Sunday the island nation's army engaged in "large scale slaughter" in a safety zone, with some 1,200 bodies counted. |
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| Sunday, May 10COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 10 (UPI) -- A British television news team detained in Sri Lanka after reporting about alleged abuses suffered by ethnic Tamils has been released, ITN managers say. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 10 (UPI) -- Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav Sunday called for a majority vote in Parliament to elect a new prime minister after talks on a coalition government failed. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 10 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will negotiate to share power with notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, The Sunday Times of London reported. MINGORA, Pakistan, May 10 (UPI) -- Pakistani military leaders Sunday said 200 Taliban militants were killed during a one-day period in the Swat and Shangla districts. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 10 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka's military Sunday denied reports government troops killed more than 2,000 civilians in a clash with Tamil Tiger militants. CHENNAI, India, May 10 (UPI) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday the country will not send troops to Sri Lanka. MINGORA, Pakistan, May 9 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government urged civilians to flee the Swat Valley, lifting a curfew to make evacuation possible as the Army takes on the Taliban. |
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| Saturday, May 9PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 9 (UPI) -- Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed at least nine people Saturday in an area in South Waziristan, Pakistan, thought to be a Taliban stronghold, witnesses said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 9 (UPI) -- Afghanistan officials say 44 presidential candidates, including two women, have signed up to run in the upcoming national elections. HERAT, Afghanistan, May 9 (UPI) -- The British military suffered its deadliest day in Afghanistan this week when two soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber and two more in other attacks. |
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| Friday, May 8COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 8 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan military forces have repeatedly shelled hospitals in the northern Vanni region during fighting with rebels, Human Rights Watch said Friday. MINGORA, Pakistan, May 8 (UPI) -- The Pakistan military said it implemented a full-scale offensive in the Swat Valley Friday in an attempt to drive out Taliban militants. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 8 (UPI) -- Two British soldiers were killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan Thursday, military officials said. WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says his country's military offensive against Taliban militants will "go on till the situation returns to normal." KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 8 (UPI) -- Riot police in the capital of Nepal confronted Maoist demonstrators Thursday as they marched on the presidential palace. |
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| Thursday, May 7KABUL, Afghanistan, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates Thursday said the Taliban erred by trying to take over the Buner district in Pakistan because it is so close to Islamabad. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 7 (UPI) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his chief of defense made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Thursday to brief combat troops about coming changes. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 7 (UPI) -- Pakistani government officials Thursday said they would scrap a peace deal with the Taliban and undertake a more aggressive operation against the militants. WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the United States is committing to establish an agriculture training program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
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| Wednesday, May 6WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama met with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan in Washington Wednesday, vowing afterward to cement ties between the three nations. |
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| Tuesday, May 5MALE, Maldives, May 5 (UPI) -- The Maldives has joined a U.N. initiative promoting a global shift to low-carbon economies and societies, the United Nations said Tuesday. MINGORA, Pakistan, May 5 (UPI) -- An expected Pakistani military offensive in the Swat Valley may prompt 500,000 civilians to flee the area ahead of the fighting, government officials say. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 5 (UPI) -- Nepal's president says he has set a Saturday deadline for the country's political parties to come up with a new consensus government. WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- Pakistani and Afghan leaders were in Washington for talks with President Barack Obama as the Pakistani military stepped up its assault against the Taliban. |
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| Monday, May 4KABUL, Afghanistan, May 4 (UPI) -- A former Afghan official says an investigation should be conducted into U.S. soldiers allegedly trying to convert Muslims to Christianity. WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. military strategy is moving from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman said Monday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 4 (UPI) -- Ten militants and three government soldiers were killed in fighting in Pakistan's Buner and Lower Dir districts, the Pakistani military said Monday. PUTUMATALAN, Sri Lanka, May 4 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan soldiers are killing children as young as 11 years old conscripted by the Tamil Tigers in their last stand, a military commander said. KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 4 (UPI) -- Nepal's prime minister resigned Monday following the controversial firing of the country's army chief of staff and resulting riots, observers said. WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- Concern is growing in Washington over the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal amid widening influence of the Taliban and al-Qaida, U.S. officials said. |
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| Sunday, May 3KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 3 (UPI) -- Communists in Nepal have quit a governing coalition in protest over the firing of the army chief. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 3 (UPI) -- At least 16 militants were killed in Mohmand as Pakistan's army and the Taliban traded fire throughout the Frontier Province, military sources said Sunday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 3 (UPI) -- Tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped Sunday between Sri Lanka's army and Tamil militants, who have vowed not to surrender, the United Nations said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 3 (UPI) -- Hamid Karzai could be re-elected president of Afghanistan merely because his opposition remains divided and is in disarray, political strategists said. KABUL, Afghanistan, May 3 (UPI) -- Afghan troops accompanied by Coalition advisers killed 19 militant fighters Saturday when they were attacked 150 miles east of Kabul, the U.S. military said. |
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| Saturday, May 2ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 2 (UPI) -- Fierce fighting between Pakistani security forces and militants in the northwest tribal area Saturday left 18 dead, mostly insurgents, a regional official said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 2 (UPI) -- Two doctors in Sri Lanka alleged Saturday the army bombarded a safe zone hospital in Mullivaikal, killing 91 people. |
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| Friday, May 1ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 1 (UPI) -- The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission is facing problems with its nuclear development programs as a result of financial cuts, a source told the Pak Tribune. WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked Congress to approve more than $1 billion in additional funds for Pakistan's war against the Taliban. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 1 (UPI) -- It could take another week for Pakistani government forces to push back Taliban insurgents in the country's northwest, a military spokesman says. |
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| Thursday, April 30SRI JAYAWARDENAPURA-KOTTE, Sri Lanka, April 30 (UPI) -- Former Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka accused ex-comrades of war crimes, alleging they killed more than 200 Tamil civilians trying to escape a "no-fire zone." AMBILIPITIYA, Sri Lanka, April 30 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said Thursday Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels have no choice but to surrender. KARACHI, Pakistan, April 30 (UPI) -- The unrest in the Pakistani city of Karachi that claimed at least 29 lives has been brought under control, Sindh Home Minister Zulfikar Mirza said Thursday. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, April 30 (UPI) -- Four militants were killed in a military operation in Pakistan's Lower Dir District, a general said. |
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| Wednesday, April 29LONDON, April 29 (UPI) -- Britain will send 700 more troops to Afghanistan mainly to provide security during upcoming elections, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 29 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan Navy says it sank six Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam boats, killing 25 rebels aboard, in a pre-dawn Wednesday attack. SRINAGAR, India, April 29 (UPI) -- Thousands of security troops were sent to Indian-administered Kashmir Wednesday following election-related violence, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 29 (UPI) -- One of the top goals of U.S. troops in Afghanistan this summer will be to break the Taliban's hold on the opium trade, military officials say. CANBERRA, Australia, April 29 (UPI) -- Australia will boost its contingent of troops in Afghanistan by 450 to 1,550 soldiers, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 29 (UPI) -- Pakistani government troops have retaken control of a strategic town in the Buner valley that had been overrun by Taliban militants, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, April 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 28 (UPI) -- Pakistani fighter jets Tuesday killed as many as 75 Taliban militants in the region bordering Afghanistan, military officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 28 (UPI) -- About 30,000 people in Pakistan's Lower Dir region have been displaced because of a military offensive against Taliban militants, a local official said Tuesday. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 28 (UPI) -- U.S. forces killed five Taliban fighters near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan and arrested a Taliban commander in the Gulistan valley, the military said. |
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| Monday, April 27WARSAW, Poland, April 27 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities say the Taliban have handed back the decapitated body of a Polish geologist, killed in the Atock province in February, Polish Radio said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 27 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops Monday killed 20 militants in a ground and air operation against Taliban in the Lower Dir region in northwest Pakistan, official said. |
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| Sunday, April 26Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban militants Sunday in the Malakand Agency, suggesting the government has become more aggressive, military officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 26 (UPI) -- Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban militants Sunday in the Malakand Agency, suggesting the government has become more aggressive, military officials said. |
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| Saturday, April 25COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 25 (UPI) -- At least 150,000 civilians are in danger of starving, the Tamil Tigers say, but the Sri Lankan government puts the number at 10,000. |
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| Friday, April 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Armed Taliban extremists began what they said was a pull-out Friday from Buner, just 60 miles from Islamabad, after they raised an international alarm by moving within striking distance of cutting off the capital from the country's northwest. WASHINGTON, April 24 (UPI) -- Agriculture analysts say beneficial rains should lead to a healthier wheat crop in Afghanistan this year, although prices will be lower as well. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 24 (UPI) -- A Sri Lankan official said Friday his government has agreed in principle to allow U.N. staff inspectors to visit the country's "no-fire zone" in the northeast. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 24 (UPI) -- More than 6,400 Sri Lankan civilians have been killed in three months of fighting between the army and Tamil Tiger rebels, the United Nations says in a report. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 24 (UPI) -- A 30-year-old Canadian female military officer was found dead in sleeping quarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan, military officials said. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, April 24 (UPI) -- Taliban militants will vacate the Buner District of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, where they had been patrolling the streets, officials say. |
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| Thursday, April 23ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 23 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Thursday the government will take action if peace is not maintained in the Swat valley. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 23 (UPI) -- The Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency says it has established that country's first internationally recognized national park. |
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| Wednesday, April 22COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 22 (UPI) -- A top Tamil Tiger rebel who surrendered Wednesday says no more than 15,000 civilians remain trapped with the rebels in the no-fire zone, the military said. |
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| Tuesday, April 21KABUL, Afghanistan, April 21 (UPI) -- Coalition forces destroyed an anti-aircraft gun in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 21 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan government's deadline for Tamil Tigers to surrender passed quietly as thousands of civilians fled the 6.5 square mile war zone in the north. |
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| Monday, April 20ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 15 (UPI) -- Airstrikes in a border region of western Pakistan killed between 16 and 20 Taliban fighters, but their commander escaped, officials said. |
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| Sunday, April 19COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 19 (UPI) -- Another 3,000 or so civilians have fled from an area held by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels, Sri Lankan military officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 19 (UPI) -- Separate clashes in Afghanistan killed at least five police officers and an undetermined number of Taliban militants, local and U.S. officials said Sunday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 19 (UPI) -- A suspected U.S. drone Sunday killed three people at a site in Pakistan known to house Taliban militants, officials in South Waziristan said. |
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| Saturday, April 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 18 (UPI) -- At least 22 people were killed and 15 wounded Saturday when a suicide bomber rammed a truck into a Pakistani military convoy, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 18 (UPI) -- Firebrand Pakistani Islamic cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz says that if Islamabad wants peace, the government should adopt Islamic law nationwide. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 18 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka says it will not extend a lull in its military push to finish off the Tamil Tigers' rebellion to spare civilians caught in a safe zone. |
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| Friday, April 17LONDON, April 17 (UPI) -- Two thousand British soldiers have completed combat training and are waiting to learn if they will be deployed to Afghanistan. WARSAW, Poland, April 17 (UPI) -- Poland's defense minister said a fresh contingent of troops will raise the number of his country's soldiers in Afghanistan to 2,000. |
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| Tuesday, April 14NEW DELHI, April 14 (UPI) -- A senior officer in India's military says Taliban forces are not active in the country. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 14 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has signed a controversial law to allow Islamic law in an area of the North West Frontier province, observers said. |
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| Sunday, April 12KABUL, Afghanistan, April 12 (UPI) -- A NATO aircraft attack killed 22 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, including four Pakistani nationals, police in Zabul province said Sunday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 12 (UPI) -- Three guards were wounded Sunday in Pakistan in an attack on a supply depot serving U.S. and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, police said. |
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| Saturday, April 11KABUL, Afghanistan, April 11 (UPI) -- Some 66 Taliban members were killed and 15 others were injured in a pair of joint operations in Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, April 10LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, April 10 (UPI) -- The U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan said Friday they killed at least 27 suspected insurgents in recent conflicts. |
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| Thursday, April 9GHAZNI, Afghanistan, April 9 (UPI) -- New U.S. strategy calls for 4,000 more troops to train Afghan police and army but observers say corruption may be a bigger policing problem. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 9 (UPI) -- Up to 190,000 civilians are in peril in the zone where the Sri Lankan army has the remnants of the Tamil Tigers trapped, the United Nations says. |
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| Wednesday, April 8ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 8 (UPI) -- Three Taliban militants were killed near the town of Wana in Pakistan Wednesday by a suspected U.S. missile strike, a Pakistani official says. WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force is dropping fewer bombs in Afghanistan, reflecting a change in tactics against insurgents, military statistics indicate. |
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| Monday, April 6KABUL, Afghanistan, April 6 (UPI) -- Fourteen Taliban militants were slain Monday by a joint force of U.S.-led coalition troops and an Afghan security team, officials said Monday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 6 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has called on the besieged Tamil Tigers to surrender. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 6 (UPI) -- Pakistan's chief justice says he wants a detailed report from local government officials about the public flogging of a 17-year-old girl. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 6 (UPI) -- Pakistan's political and military elites don't agree with the United States that the threat from Islamic extremists is a dire one, analysts say. |
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| Saturday, April 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 4 (UPI) -- At least 25 people were killed Saturday in two suicide attacks in Pakistan, one in the capital and the other in North Waziristan near the Afghan border. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 4 (UPI) -- At least 11 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed and four of their boats sunk in a battle at sea Saturday, say Sri Lankan naval officials. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 4 (UPI) -- Rockets fired from a U.S. drone killed 13 people at an alleged militant hideout in Pakistan's tribal region Saturday, sources say. |
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| Friday, April 3COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 3 (UPI) -- At least 47 rebels were killed Friday in Sri Lanka as government forces attacked Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam militants, officials say. SRINAGAR, India, April 3 (UPI) -- Gunbattles between militants and army forces killed six people, including a civilian, in the Indian region of Kashmir, police said Friday. STRASBOURG, France, April 3 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama called on Europe Friday to share more of the military burden to win the NATO-led war in Afghanistan. STRASBOURG, France, April 3 (UPI) -- Eleven aid agencies have warned NATO leaders meeting in France that a troop surge in Afghanistan could lead to more civilian casualties. |
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| Thursday, April 2DHAKA, Bangladesh, April 2 (UPI) -- Researchers report finding a stronghold for the Irrawaddy, one of the world's rarest freshwater dolphins, deep in the Bangladesh jungles. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 2 (UPI) -- Afghan soldiers killed 20 armed militants in the Helmond province of southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, April 1ANKARA, Turkey, April 1 (UPI) -- The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan met in Turkey Wednesday to discuss a regional approach to battling terrorism and militant insurgencies, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, April 1 (UPI) -- At least six people died Wednesday when suicide bombers set off devices at a provincial council facility in Kandahar, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. |
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| Tuesday, March 31WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- The 4,000 extra U.S. troops to be sent to Afghanistan will work with a command charged with developing Afghan security forces, a U.S. military official said. WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- Attempting to eradicate poppy fields in Afghanistan is counterproductive, the United States' top envoy to the country says. THE HAGUE, Netherlands, March 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she backs Afghanistan's plans to conduct reconciliation talks with moderate Taliban members. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 31 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old Afghanistan boy was killed Tuesday in a military operation in Khost province, say NATO officials. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 31 (UPI) -- Islamist terrorism in Pakistan, once found only in the country's remote tribal areas, has spread, threatening political stability nationwide, analysts say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 31 (UPI) -- Shahbaz Sharif can return to his post as chief minister of the Pakistani province of Punjab, the nation's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. |
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| Monday, March 30WASHINGTON, March 30 (UPI) -- The United States supports the Afghan Supreme Court's ruling extending the president's term until elections can be held, a State Department spokesman said. |
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| Sunday, March 29PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 29 (UPI) -- Four vehicles and offices of a terminal storing containers filled with NATO military supplies were burned in Peshawar, Pakistan, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 29 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces said Saturday they killed 26 Taliban militants in the Mohmand Agency in the Northwest Frontier province. |
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| Saturday, March 28ROME, March 28 (UPI) -- Italy plans to send as many as 250 more soldiers to Afghanistan during the summer to provide security during the run-up to elections. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 28 (UPI) -- A firefight in Afghanistan's Helmand province resulted in the deaths of 12 militants at the hands of Afghan and coalition troops, officials said. WASHINGTON, March 28 (UPI) -- Obama administration officials are being cagey about whether U.S. forces should directly engage terrorists operating in northwestern Pakistan, analysts said. |
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| Friday, March 27WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- The 60-day review of the U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy was an aggressive effort to ensure all views were heard and considered, officials said Friday. WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama outlined a new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy boosting troop levels and funding and setting expectations for the countries' leaders. |
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| Thursday, March 26Pakistan is offering direct support to the Taliban's southern Afghanistan campaign despite vowing to sever ties, U.S. aides say. WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan is offering direct support to the Taliban's southern Afghanistan campaign despite vowing to sever ties, U.S. aides say. |
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| Wednesday, March 25NEW DELHI, March 25 (UPI) -- The Indian Army has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over an alleged cease-fire violation last weekend in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 25 (UPI) -- Bangladeshi authorities say an orphanage run by a British charity was being used as a training camp and arms factory for Islamic militants. |
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| Monday, March 23WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) -- As U.S. President Barack Obama nears announcing his Afghanistan war strategy, observers are drawing distinctions between Obama and his immediate predecessor. WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) -- A senior Taliban leader responsible for roadside bombings and suicide attacks against NATO forces died during an attack on his compound, NATO said Monday. |
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| Sunday, March 22KABUL, Afghanistan, March 22 (UPI) -- The United States is prepared to discuss the establishment of a political party for the Taliban in Afghanistan, a U.S. diplomat says. |
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| Saturday, March 21KABUL, Afghanistan, March 21 (UPI) -- Insurgents detonated two bombs in Afghanistan Saturday -- the country's new year -- killing at least eight people and wounding several more, authorities said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 21 (UPI) -- Pakistan said Saturday Indian forces fired on Pakistani positions across the Line of Control between with the two countries. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 21 (UPI) -- U.S. CIA Director Leon Panetta arrived in Pakistan Saturday to meet with top leaders in Islamabad, officials said. |
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| Thursday, March 19WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- Hundreds of U.S. civilians may be sent to Afghanistan in a program to support security, governance and local development, Obama administration officials said. |
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| Wednesday, March 18KABUL, Afghanistan, March 18 (UPI) -- Three civilians were injured Wednesday when a bomb exploded near a gas station in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the government says. |
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| Monday, March 16UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 16 (UPI) -- The United Nations said it fears for the safety of one of its Sri Lankan employees who was forcibly recruited by the Tamil Tigers fighting the government. |
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| Sunday, March 15PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 15 (UPI) -- Pakistani singers and actors say the Taliban is threatening them with death if they refuse to join radical preaching groups. |
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| Saturday, March 14KABUL, Afghanistan, March 14 (UPI) -- A British soldier with the Royal Welsh Regiment died Saturday in an explosion in Afghanistan's Helmand province, military authorities said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 14 (UPI) -- More than 1,000 civilians escaped from rebel control in Sri Lanka ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 14 (UPI) -- Pakistan Information Minister Sherry Rehman has resigned as the government clamps down on protesters and the country's media, reports indicate. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 14 (UPI) -- Six Afghan militants were killed and 10 arrested Saturday in two separate clashes with government and coalition forces, military officials said. |
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| Friday, March 13GENEVA, Switzerland, March 13 (UPI) -- Actions by both Sri Lankan government forces and rebel troops in northern Sri Lanka could constitute war crimes, a top U.N. human rights official said Friday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 13 (UPI) -- A military spokesman for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka has been killed by the militant group, Tamil sources said Friday. |
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| Thursday, March 12ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 12 (UPI) -- Pakistani lawyers joined in protests Thursday against the government of President Asif Ali Zardari. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 12 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States said Kabul's Western allies are providing a half-hearted effort to defeat extremists. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 12 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan army troops Thursday claimed to have captured a Tamil Tigers hospital at Puthukkudiyiruppu. |
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| Wednesday, March 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials seeking to prevent a planned protest march have arrested dozens of opposition political figures, activists say. |
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| Tuesday, March 10KABUL, Afghanistan, March 10 (UPI) -- Sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan will not stabilize the war-torn country, an Afghan activist said Tuesday. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 10 (UPI) -- U.S. special forces in Afghanistan halted commando raids for two weeks in February because of outrage over the civilian deaths they caused, sources say. |
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| Monday, March 9COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 9 (UPI) -- A former leader of a splinter rebel group took a post in the Sri Lankan government Monday, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 9 (UPI) -- The Pakistani man believed responsible for a terrorist attack on a cricket team's bus escaped capture Monday in a Punjab police raid, sources say. TANGAIL, Bangladesh, March 9 (UPI) -- Two Bangladeshi army officers died Monday when their helicopter hit an electric pole and crashed about 100 miles north of Dhaka, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 9 (UPI) -- Four Islamic militants were killed by Pakistani forces in the Bajaur region where Pakistan has declared victory over the Taliban, officials said Monday. |
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| Sunday, March 8DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation team will help probe a deadly mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles paramilitary troops, officials said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, March 7SRINAGAR, India, March 7 (UPI) -- A large portion of Srinagar in the Kashmir region has been placed under strict security by Indian police, a local resident said Saturday. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 7 (UPI) -- Seven Afghan militants were slain and five suspected militants were arrested Saturday in several U.S.-led coalition operations, officials said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 7 (UPI) -- At least 32 Tamil rebels have been killed in heavy fighting in northeastern Sri Lanka, military officials said Saturday. LONDON, March 7 (UPI) -- The former head of Britain's special air service troops in Afghanistan says the government has "blood on (its) hands" for using inadequate equipment. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 7 (UPI) -- Seven people, including five police personnel, were killed by a car bomb Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 7 (UPI) -- A spokesman for Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says the president is sticking with his decision to hold presidential elections next month. |
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| Friday, March 6LAHORE, Pakistan, March 6 (UPI) -- Security officials say some of the gunmen who attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore have ties to al-Qaida. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 6 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities investigating the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team say they have uncovered criminal, terrorism and extremist elements. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 6 (UPI) -- A fresh bout of violence between Sri Lankan government forces and rebel fighters has resulted in at least 38 rebel deaths, the military said Friday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 6 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Friday he sees a "ray of hope" that will likely lead to major changes in the country. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is seeking to shore up a weak supply chain through Pakistan and Central Asia as it prepares to expand its Afghan presence, officials say. |
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| Thursday, March 5COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 5 (UPI) -- The remaining forces of the Tamil Tigers were trapped in a 21-square-mile area in northern Sri Lanka, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 5 (UPI) -- An unexplained delay in the Pakistani cricket team schedule is fueling a theory the deadly attack on the Sri Lankan team was based on inside information. |
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| Wednesday, March 4ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 4 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama says a terror attack on his country's cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan, won't harm relations with Islamabad. DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 3 (UPI) -- Two of the suspected ringleaders of a mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles were among five men arrested Tuesday, authorities said. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 4 (UPI) -- Three Canadian soldiers in NATO's Afghanistan mission were killed by a roadside bomb northwest of Kandahar, military officials said Wednesday. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 4 (UPI) -- Twenty people have been arrested in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team visiting Lahore, Pakistan, in which eight people died, officials said. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) -- At least seven people, including six police officers, died during an attack Tuesday on the Sri Lankan soccer team in Pakistan for a competition. |
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| Tuesday, March 3NEW DELHI, March 3 (UPI) -- Terrorism based in Pakistan is a "grave threat" to the entire world, India said Tuesday after gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan national cricket team's bus. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) -- The death toll in Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan, rose to eight, while six team members were wounded, officials said. LAHORE, Pakistan, March 3 (UPI) -- Britain Tuesday condemned an attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Pakistan as a "grotesque violation" while others called it a grim day for the sport. |
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| Monday, March 2DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 2 (UPI) -- The Bangladeshi army combed the nation's streets and villages Monday, hunting down paramilitary mutineers now considered fugitives, observers said. |
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| Sunday, March 1KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 1 (UPI) -- Fighting between coalition and militant forces in Afghanistan Sunday left four militants dead, U.S. officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, March 1 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's call to hold elections this spring rather than in August upset the United States and opposition politicians, analysts said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 1 (UPI) -- The Bangladeshi border guard mutiny was led by four deputy assistant directors and intentionally targeted officers for killings, a police chief says. |
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| Saturday, February 28KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai decreed Saturday that the next election must be held at least a month before his term expires. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The scene of a mutiny by Bangladeshi border guards has revealed three more mass graves, raising the death toll to 77, military officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, February 27LAHORE, Pakistan, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Pakistan Muslim League leader Nawaz Sharif says his political party will help liberate Pakistan with the support of the Pakistani people. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Thirty-eight more bodies were found Friday in the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters during a search of the compound following a 33-hour mutiny, officials said. |
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| Thursday, February 26DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The deadly rebellion that took place at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in the Bangladesh city of Dhaka has prompted mass unrest, sources say. |
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| Wednesday, February 25DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The death toll from the failed mutiny by Bangladeshi border guards Wednesday appears to be about 50, a state minister said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- A bombing, airstrikes and clashes between militants and military resulted in 30 deaths in Afghanistan, government and military officials said Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif can no longer hold elected office, the country's Supreme Court says. |
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| Tuesday, February 24ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The head of the Taliban group that controls about 70 percent of the Swat Valley in Pakistan announced an indefinite cease-fire Tuesday. OTTAWA, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Canadian troops are being advised to take a soft approach to Afghans because a decisive military victory is unlikely, the National Post reported. |
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| Sunday, February 22BARA, Pakistan, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. military and technical personnel are training Pakistani forces in secret operations aimed at battling al-Qaida and the Taliban, The New York Times reports. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan police claimed Sunday Tamil Tiger rebels had killed 21 civilians in a village in the country's Eastern province. |
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| Saturday, February 21KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Thirteen civilians were killed during an operation conducted by coalition forces in Afghanistan's Herat province this week, military officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, February 20COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Rebels in Sri Lanka launched an airstrike on the capital city of Colombo, officials said Friday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- An International Committee of the Red Cross representative Friday said the humanitarian group will ferry wounded civilians out of a Sri Lankan combat zone. |
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| Wednesday, February 18ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- GEO News correspondent Mosa Khankhel was shot to death Wednesday in Matta, Pakistan, the network said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The CIA has been secretly using the Shamsi airfield in Pakistan to launch drone attacks against al-Qaida and Taliban militants, a British newspaper says. |
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| Tuesday, February 17WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday approved a Pentagon request for more U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the White House said. |
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| Monday, February 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- An Afghan contractor was killed by a roadside bomb that exploded as a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol passed beside it, officials said Monday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Iran has a key role in helping to stabilize Afghanistan, the United States' representative to the area said, indicating a shift in Washington's view of Tehran. |
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| Saturday, February 14KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke met Saturday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A missile strike in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas killed at least 25 Taliban militants Saturday, officials said. |
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| Friday, February 13COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka is planning barbed-wire enclosed camps, with schools and parks, where 200,000 ethnic Tamil refugees can live for up to three years, officials say. LONDON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- British troops are expected to play a significantly reduced role in southern Afghanistan, military officials say. |
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| Thursday, February 12ROME, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Italy plans to send more of its troops to Afghanistan, in response to a request from U.S. President Barack Obama, an Italian official said Thursday. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Thousands of U.S. assault rifles and other firearms American officials lost track of in Afghanistan may be in Taliban hands, a congressional report says. |
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| Wednesday, February 11ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke says Pakistan must eliminate safe havens used by terrorists in the country's northwestern tribal areas. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters stormed two government ministries and the prisons administration center Wednesday in Kabul in simultaneous assaults that killed at least 19 people, wounded more than 50 and underscored the ease with which the insurgents are able to penetrate the heavily guarded Afghan capital. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani Taliban leaders are targeting the capital Islamabad in retaliation for government offensives in the country's northwest, a local media report says. |
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| Monday, February 9ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. officials voiced doubt about Pakistan's decision to limit Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan's movements after releasing him from house arrest. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Up to 24 people died Monday in a suicide bombing at a relief camp for people fleeing fighting between Sri Lanka's army and Tamil fighters, officials said. |
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| Sunday, February 8KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Authorities in southern Afghanistan say four people, including two U.S. soldiers, died Sunday in a roadside bomb blast in Helmand province. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, once regarded as a hero by the Bush administration, has fallen out of favor at home and abroad, analysts say. |
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| Saturday, February 7HELMAND, Afghanistan, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A Taliban stronghold has been destroyed by British and Afghan forces after 10 days of fighting in southern Afghanistan, officials said. ROME, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Authorities say Italy plans to add 800 soldiers to NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan this year. |
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| Friday, February 6ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The Pakistani nuclear scientist accused of sharing nuclear secrets with other countries criticized Western countries Friday as he was freed from house arrest. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa says his country's military won't harass the civilian population while conducting anti-terrorism operations. PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Pakistani army helicopter gunships have killed 52 militants in an attack south of the Khyber Pass, a senior military official in Peshawar said Friday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Demonstrators threw stones at Red Cross offices in the Sri Lankan capital Friday and said the international humanitarian group should leave the country. |
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| Thursday, February 5COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A major rebel base in the Sri Lankan town of Chalai was captured Thursday by government troops, the military says. DERA GHAZI KHAN, Pakistan, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- As many as 25 people were killed Thursday when a bomb exploded near a congregation hall in the Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan, rescue sources say. |
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| Wednesday, February 4KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, visiting Afghanistan Wednesday, pledged the United Nations' support for development, peace and stability in the country. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has called for a more tailored Afghan policy of counterinsurgency and development goals, aides said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The last functioning hospital in the northern Sri Lanka war zone has closed in the face of fighting between troops and Tamil rebels, U.N. officials say. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Militants fired rockets at NATO supply trucks Wednesday in Pakistan, the latest attack on vehicles carrying supplies for coalition forces, officials said. |
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| Tuesday, February 3ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A bomb blast ripped through a mosque in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province Tuesday killing one person and injuring more than 20, police said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Afghan security officials say they have arrested 17 people allegedly involved in suicide bombings that have killed 20 civilians over a two-year period. |
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| Monday, February 2KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- At least 25 Afghan police officers died Monday when a Taliban suicide bomber dressed as a police officer attacked a local station, an Afghan official said. |
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| Sunday, February 1MINGORA, Pakistan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- At least 16 Taliban militants and at least 43 civilians have died in a sustained Pakistani military offensive in the Swat Valley, observers said Sunday. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A member of the U.N.-mandated International Security Assistance Force and three civilians were killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday. |
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| Friday, January 30COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The estimated 250,000 civilians in the conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka want to stay to be protected by the Tamil Tigers, the rebels say, KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A NATO military official has been criticized for ordering NATO forces in Afghanistan to use lethal force against drug traffickers they encounter, sources say. |
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| Thursday, January 29DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan are "counterproductive" and should be stopped, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, January 28ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The Pakistani Foreign Ministry insisted Wednesday that it had not given the United States permission to hit al-Qaida targets inside Pakistan. SEOUL, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- South Korea says it will expand its civilian-led presence in Afghanistan and follow up later with other contributions to the battle against Taliban militants. |
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| Tuesday, January 27COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Civilians in Sri Lanka are increasingly suffering casualties as the military battles rebels in the country's north and along its coastline, observers say. |
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| Monday, January 26KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Afghan militants directed 3,276 roadside bomb attacks at Western troops last year, a 45 percent increase from 2007, U.S. Defense Department figures indicate. |
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| Sunday, January 25MEHTERLAM, Afghanistan, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Angry demonstrators in eastern Afghanistan Sunday protested a U.S-led raid against Taliban insurgents in the region, which they say killed 16 Afghan civilians. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan soldiers used a surprise attack to gain control of the key rebel stronghold town of Mullaittivu, officials said Sunday. |
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| Saturday, January 24COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- The editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper and his wife were beaten in Colombo, newspaper staffers said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Marine Corps is proposing a complete withdrawal of its troops from Iraq this year, officials said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. coalition forces have killed 15 suspected Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday. |
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| Friday, January 23LONDON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The top doctor in the British military says he has had no complaints from wounded soldiers about being treated in the same hospital as Taliban fighters. KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A Pakistani official said his country's inquiry into the deadly terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai will follow Pakistani laws. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- With U.S. President Barack Obama taking office amid an expected sea of change, experts say an ouster of Afghan leader Hamid Karzai may be forthcoming. |
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| Thursday, January 22KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S.-led coalition appears to have ceded much of Afghanistan's southern border to the Taliban until new forces arrive, The New York Times reports. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A Pakistani citizen alleges in a lawsuit against the U.S. government that he was unjustly held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base for more than six years. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Troops have seized the Tamil Tiger rebel command center in northern Sri Lanka, a government report said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, January 21TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Australian Governor-General Quentin Bryce stayed overnight with the country's troops at their front-line base in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. military says it is looking into allegations 25 Afghan civilians were killed in an attack directed at Taliban militants. KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Avian flu has been detected in southeastern Nepal, prompting authorities to begin slaughtering thousands of poultry, U.N. health officials said Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has secured new supply routes to Afghanistan to avoid Taliban attacks on the main supply route, U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A suicide car bomb killed two Afghan soldiers and wounded three others Wednesday, a Defense Ministry official in Kabul said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan Navy says it has fired at a suspicious aircraft that was apparently leaving one of the last strongholds of Tamil Tiger rebels. |
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| Tuesday, January 20ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military Tuesday called on outside powers to stop demanding Islamabad do more to prove its sincerity in fighting militants. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Sixty militants in Pakistan, including several local commanders, have been killed in the past day, the Frontier Corps said Tuesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus was in Pakistan Tuesday to discuss security in the region and the on-going war on terror, Pakistani officials said. |
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| Monday, January 19ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Anti-terrorism leaders say a number of al-Qaida militants in training have been killed by the "black death, a plague that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. |
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| Saturday, January 17COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Tamil Tiger rebels say they have killed 51 Sri Lankan soldiers near Dharmapuram, a claim disputed by military officials. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Five people, including a U.S. soldier and a child, were killed Saturday in a suicide bombing near the German embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, officials said. |
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| Friday, January 16KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. military and counterinsurgency plan in Afghanistan is meeting resistance that could delay or weaken the effort, military leaders said. |
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| Thursday, January 15KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A senior Afghan military officer and 12 other passengers were killed Thursday when a military helicopter crashed in western Afghanistan, officials said. |
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| Monday, January 12KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Journalists in Nepal say the hacking death of a colleague is part of a growing pattern of violence against reporters in the southern Asian nation. TORKHAM, Afghanistan, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Some U.S. military officers say mistrust among the staff of a new intelligence outpost in Afghanistan's remote Khyber Pass is limiting its effectiveness. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama needs to bolster U.S. troops numbers in Afghanistan to create stability, military officials say. |
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| Sunday, January 11KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The arrival of a U.S. general in Afghanistan has effectively supplanted the British as the de facto leaders of NATO troops in the country, sources say. MOHMAND, Pakistan, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani soldiers battled hundreds of pro-Taliban militants who crossed from Afghanistan into the country's tribal areas this weekend, officials said. |
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| Saturday, January 10KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Three U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan's Zabol province only hours after two others were killed in a Kandahar suicide bombing, officials said. |
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| Friday, January 9COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Government troops gained control of the strategic Elephant Pass in Sri Lanka from rebel forces on Friday, President Mahinda Rajapakse said. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, says a significant and lengthy commitment is needed in the war-torn country. |
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| Thursday, January 8COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The shooting death of an anti-government newspaper editor in Sri Lanka is the latest in a string of attacks on such journalists, an advocacy group said. |
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| Wednesday, January 7ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani government on Wednesday abruptly fired its national security adviser after he confirmed that the surviving gunman captured in the Mumbai attacks is a Pakistani, a key piece of evidence contained in a dossier amassed by India on alleged Pakistani complicity in the three-day assault. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Coalition troops killed 32 suspected militants in Afghanistan as part of an operation targeting a possible bombing cell, the military said Wednesday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The new chief of Pakistan's spy agency says there will be no war with India, but also says militant Taliban leaders have a right to "say what they please." NEW DELHI, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Fighting between security forces and militants in a forested and mountainous region of India-controlled Kashmir entered its seventh day Wednesday. |
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| Tuesday, January 6ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., returning from a three-week tour of Afghanistan, says more U.S. troops need to be sent to the country quickly to stabilize it. LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A one-time Pakistani terror suspect says he was subjected to more than six years of torture and abuse by U.S. captors and plans to sue the government. |
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| Monday, January 5ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Taliban-leaning militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region killed three men accused of spying for the United states, tribesmen said Monday. |
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| Saturday, January 3KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan government forces Saturday continued a military campaign against rebels a day after capturing their de facto capital of Kilinochchi, officials said. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan found three large explosive devices in a sport utility vehicle after they shot and killed the driver, the military said Friday. |
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| Friday, January 2ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military is making progress against Taliban militants threatening Pakistan-to-Afghanistan supply routes, U.S. military officials said Friday. OTTAWA, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A Canadian officer serving in Afghanistan was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a suspected insurgent, the military said. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military, claiming its biggest victory against the Tamil Tigers, said Friday it was about to capture the rebels' main stronghold of Kilinochchi. |
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| Thursday, January 1ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Four people were killed and many wounded in a suspected drone missile strike in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area Thursday, officials said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military says its forces destroyed suspected militant homes in the Khyber area, the overland supply route to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- NATO forces in Afghanistan are awaiting details of the new U.S. strategy expected when Barack Obama takes office as president, an alliance spokesman said. |
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| Tuesday, December 30ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A key supply route for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan was blocked Tuesday by Pakistani troops beginning an offensive against militants, officials said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return to power after her party posted a landslide win in national elections, officials said. NEW DELHI, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Indian army officials Tuesday denied reports of a troop buildup along the India-Pakistan border, saying Pakistan had "whipped up war rhetoric." |
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| Monday, December 29KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Two suicide bombers struck in Afghanistan's Parwan and Kandahar provinces Monday, killing at least four people and injuring many more, authorities said. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Bangladeshi voters cast ballots amid tight security Monday to elect a new government to replace the two-year rule of a military-backed interim government. |
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| Saturday, December 27KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Scores of journalists in Nepal carried out protests Saturday to oppose a series of media attacks focused on freedom of the press, a group says. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Bangladesh is stage to its final political rallies ahead of parliamentary elections Monday in the southern Asian nation, party officials said. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The United Nations is moving to set up a commission to investigate the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, officials said. GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Pakistan, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Mourners gathered Saturday to remember slain former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as officials put the military on alert, observers said. |
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| Friday, December 26ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan canceled leave for its soldiers and was redeploying troops to the Indian border, officials said Friday. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Two former Bangladeshi prime ministers are trading accusations about alleged assassination plots against them in the lead-up to parliamentary elections. |
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| Thursday, December 25KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. project is to begin next year to help the Afghan regime train and arm its people to fight growing Taliban militancy in their areas, officials told CNN. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military said Thursday its forces have killed at least 18 Tamil Tiger rebels while repulsing a counter-attack in a northern area. KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Two NATO soldiers have been slain in Afghanistan, military officials said Thursday. |
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| Wednesday, December 24KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. military officials say they hope plans to arm local Afghan militias to help fight the Taliban yield results similar to the success seen in Iraq. |
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| Tuesday, December 23KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Many Nepalese newspapers protested an attack by Maoist union activists on a publishing company by printing papers with blank pages Tuesday. BRUSSELS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- NATO's top military commander says he's surprised that some member nations aren't following through on promises to battle the Afghanistan drug trade. NEW DELHI, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Pakistan scrambled fighter jets over its larger cities as Indian officials said all options were available in the capture of terrorists who attacked Mumbai. |
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| Monday, December 22ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thanked Pakistani military and intelligence officials Monday for their efforts to fight terrorism. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military has been claiming major victories against the Tamil Tigers in recent weeks but a rebel leader told the BBC the fighting will continue. |
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| Sunday, December 21KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Britain may increase its troop strength in Afghanistan to augment a similar increase by the United States, Defense Secretary John Hutton said Sunday. ARGHESTAN, Afghanistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Afghan and coalition forces have destroyed 2 1/2 tons of marijuana found in an unused school in Kandahar province. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Taliban militants in Pakistan have killed two Afghan nationals they claim were spies for the United States, officials said Sunday. |