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American opens fire on Afghans, 15 dead
AP 11 Mar 2012
BALANDI, Afghanistan — A US service member walked out of a base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and...
Afghan security personnel walk past a damaged vehicle at the site of a blast in Jalalabad on August 30, 2010. A bomb blast in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad has killed a district chief and injured up to five others, an official and the interior ministry said.
UN: 2011 was deadliest year on record for Afghan civilians
AP 04 Feb 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan — Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as...
Bombers strike Iraq government building, at least 27 dead
Reuters 05 Jul 2011
Baghdad - A car bomb and another explosive device blew up in a crowded parking lot outside a government building north...
Police search Kabul hotel after Taliban attack kills 10
Reuters 29 Jun 2011
Kabul - Afghan police sifted through one of Kabul's landmark hotels room by room on Wednesday for any more...
US troops of HHC TF 1-66, 1BTC, 4ID arrive to a US base in Arghandab Valley, located in Kandahar province, on August 10, 2010. The number of civilian casualties in the Afghan war rose by a third in the first six months of 2010, with insurgents killing seven times more civilians than NATO-led troops, a UN report said August 10.
Karzai rules out asking for more US troops
AFP 26 Jun 2011
Washington - Afghan President Hamid Karzai ruled out Sunday asking the United States for more troops if the security...
Forty-four foreign troops have died in Afghanistan already in January.
Officials: 30 die in Afghan hospital car bomb
AFP 25 Jun 2011
Puli Alam, Afghanistan - Thirty people were killed in a suicide car bombing Saturday targeting a hospital in...
US troops of HHC TF 1-66, 1BTC, 4ID arrive to a US base in Arghandab Valley, located in Kandahar province, on August 10, 2010. The number of civilian casualties in the Afghan war rose by a third in the first six months of 2010, with insurgents killing seven times more civilians than NATO-led troops, a UN report said August 10.
Obama to unveil plan for Afghanistan troop withdrawal
Reuters 22 Jun 2011
Washington - President Barack Obama was set to unveil on Wednesday his plan to start bringing US troops home from...
Iraqi security forces survey the damage at the scene of a suicide attack near the Anbar provincial government offices in the restive city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad,December 12, 2010. more than ten people were killed, including several policemen.
22 killed in suicide car bombings south of Baghdad
AP 21 Jun 2011
Baghdad - Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-laden vehicles early Tuesday near a government compound south of...
Iraqi radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gestures as he speaks during a press conference following a meeting with Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi in Damascus on July 19, 2010 as the two figures are at the centre of efforts to form a new Iraqi government
Iraq's Mehdi Army faces splits, wary of return to war
Reuters 16 Jun 2011
Baghdad - Iraq's anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is reviving fears of sectarian violence with a warning he will...
Iraqi soldiers in a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, September 15, 2010.
Twin car bombs in Iraq's Mosul kill six, injure 60
Reuters 11 Jun 2011
Mosul, Iraq - Two car bombs exploded in quick succession in a central street of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on...