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US drone strike kills three in northwest Pakistan
Sep 22, 2012 (AFP)
A US drone strike on Saturday killed at least three Islamic militants in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said. The s...
ISAF kills prominent IMU leader
Sep 21, 2012 (UPI)
A joint military operation in Afghanistan's Kunduz province said it killed a leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The NATO-led International Security A...
Russia to keep Kyrgyzstan military base, forgive debt
Sep 20, 2012 (AFP)
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday agreed a deal with Kyrgyzstan that will allow Russia to keep a military base in the country until 2032 as Moscow and Washin...
NATO's Afghan strategy in jeopardy: experts
Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)
Coalition leaders say otherwise, but experts warn that NATO's decision to limit joint operations with Afghan forces threatens the alliance's strategy to hand ov...
Australian troops end joint Afghan patrols
Sep 19, 2012 (UPI)
Amid security concerns, Australian troops serving with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have ended joint patrols with the Afghan milit...
Bomb kills nine in Pakistan's Peshawar: officials
Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)
A bomb apparently targeting a Pakistan air force vehicle ripped through a van in the country's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing nine people, ...
Commentary: Glide path to nowhere
Sep 18, 2012 (UPI)
The round-the-clock killing of U.S. military advisers by Afghan soldiers they are training coupled with some $200 million worth of jet fighters and attack helic...
NATO scales back joint ops with Afghans
Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)
NATO is scaling back joint operations with Afghans after an unprecedented number of Western soldiers were shot dead by their local colleagues and as anger erupt...
NATO restricts joint operations with Afghans
Sep 18, 2012 (AFP)
NATO-led forces are scaling back joint operations with Afghan forces after a spate of "insider attacks" in which Afghan recruits turned their weapons on Western...
NATO defensive over unprecedented Afghan base losses
Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)
NATO was forced onto the defensive Monday over a humiliating attack on one of its most heavily guarded bases in Afghanistan that destroyed six US fighter jets i...
Afghan insider attacks are 'last gasp effort' by Taliban: US
Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday said insider attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan were a "last gasp" tactic by Taliban insurgents who had been unab...
NATO 'killed Afghan women' on black weekend
Sep 16, 2012 (AFP)
NATO was accused of killing eight women Sunday, capping a weekend which saw six soldiers shot dead by presumed Afghan colleagues and a Taliban assault cause unp...
Two killed at US base where Prince Harry deployed
Sep 15, 2012 (AFP)
Insurgents armed with guns and rockets stormed a heavily fortified air field in Afghanistan, killing two US Marines and damaging aircraft in a major security br...
British troops may return from Afghanistan earlier
Sep 13, 2012 (AFP)
British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is considering bringing some British troops back from Afghanistan earlier than expected, he said in an interview publis...
Commentary: Pakistan's prestidigitators
Sep 11, 2012 (UPI)
Dr. A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, notoriously anti-American and arguably the most popular man among 200 million Pakistanis, is the head of a...
Azerbaijan, Armenia trade barbs over axe-killer pardon
Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)
Bitter enemies Azerbaijan and Armenia traded accusations on Friday amid growing international criticism of Baku's pardoning of an extradited Azerbaijani soldier...
US troop drawdown in Afghanistan on track: officials
Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)
The planned withdrawal of more than 30,000 US "surge" troops from Afghanistan will be completed ahead of an end-of-month target date, officials said Friday. Pre...
US to blacklist Haqqani militants despite Pakistan fears
Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)
The United States moved Friday to blacklist the Pakistan-linked Haqqani network as a terrorist group, blamed for bloody attacks in Afghanistan, despite concerns...
Taliban behind quarter of insider attacks: NATO
Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)
The Taliban are involved in a quarter of Afghan security personnel attacks on NATO colleagues, according to a military commander. The surge of assaults, unprece...
NATO 'deeply concerned' over Azerbaijan killer pardon
Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday said he was "deeply concerned" about the pardoning of a Azerbaijani soldier who axed an Armenian office...
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