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Missing Georgian soldier found dead in Afghanistan: minister
Dec 29, 2012 (AFP)
A Georgian soldier, who went missing in southern Afghanistan last week, was found dead on Saturday, Georgia's defence minister said. Minister Irakli Alasania ga...
Victims of Afghan raid file suit against Germany
Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)
Families of victims of an air strike in Afghanistan that killed more than 90 people in 2009 have filed a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit against German...
Kazakhstan mourns deaths of elite guards in plane crash
Dec 26, 2012 (AFP)
Kazakhstan on Wednesday mourned the deaths of 27 people in one of its worst ever aviation disasters, a tragedy that wiped out much of the top echelon of the sta...
Three Afghans killed in suicide attack on US base
Dec 26, 2012 (AFP)
A suicide car bombing at a US military base near a flashpoint city in eastern Afghanistan killed at least three Afghans and wounded seven others on Wednesday, o...
Twenty-seven believed dead in Kazakh military plane crash
Dec 25, 2012 (AFP)
A military aircraft carrying 27 people including top members of the Kazakhstan border guard crashed Tuesday in the south of the country with all those on board ...
Afghan policewoman fatally shoots foreign adviser
Dec 24, 2012 (AFP)
A female Afghan police officer shot dead a NATO civilian adviser inside Kabul police headquarters on Monday, officials said, in the first "insider" attack by a ...
Britain's Cameron visits troops in Afghanistan
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday paid a pre-Christmas visit to British troops serving in Afghanistan, insisting that the "high price" paid by servicemen...
ISAF soldier goes missing in Afghanistan: spokesman
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
An ISAF soldier has gone missing in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said on Thursday, more than three years after an American army sergeant was taken prison...
Britain to pull nearly half its troops from Afghanistan
Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)
Britain will withdraw almost half of its 9,000 troops from Afghanistan next year as local security forces become increasingly able to take responsibility, Prime...
Afghan army beset by desertions as NATO pullout looms
Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)
Far from home, poorly paid and discriminated against, Mushtaq and Sefadullah are among thousands of Afghans who are deserting the army in a worrying trend two y...
Kabul sets ambitious 'roadmap for peace' with Taliban
Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)
Kabul has laid out an ambitious and contentious five-step plan that could bring hardline Taliban Islamists into government as efforts to broker peace accelerate...
Pakistani Islamists denounce peace moves with India
Dec 16, 2012 (AFP)
About 10,000 Pakistani Islamists held a rally at the Wagah border with India on Sunday, denouncing peace moves between the nuclear-armed rivals without resoluti...
Amnesty blasts Pakistani army and Taliban
Dec 14, 2012 (UPI)
Pakistan's tribal area people suffer human rights abuses, including torture and detention by government forces and Taliban groups, a human rights group claimed....
Karzai invited to US for talks on Afghanistan's future
Dec 14, 2012 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama has invited Afghan President Hamid Karzai to Washington in January for talks on the future of Afghanistan once NATO-led forces withdra...
Panetta weighs future US troop levels in Kabul talks
Dec 12, 2012 (AFP)
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta conferred with commanders in Afghanistan on Wednesday on how many American troops should remain in the country after most comb...
Pakistani Taliban threaten politicians
Dec 11, 2012 (UPI)
Pakistani Taliban said they will target additional political gatherings after a blast in a parking lot in the Khyber area near Peshawar injured seven people. Th...
Iraqi Kurdistan president visits forces in Kirkuk
Dec 10, 2012 (AFP)
Massud Barzani, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, inspected Kurdish peshmerga security forces in the disputed north Iraq province of Kirkuk o...
US report faults Pakistan over Afghan war
Dec 10, 2012 (AFP)
Despite an easing of tensions with the United States, Pakistan is persistently undermining security in Afghanistan by permitting safe havens for insurgents, a P...
Taliban to attend Paris conference on Afghanistan
Dec 10, 2012 (AFP)
The Taliban said Monday it would attend a conference in Paris on Afghanistan this month but would not hold peace talks with Afghan government delegates or other...
US drone kills at least 3 militants in Pakistan: officials
Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)
A US drone fired two missiles at a compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal district early Thursday, killing at least three militants, local security official...
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