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'Hundreds' of Afghan soldiers sacked over insider attacks
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
Afghanistan said Wednesday it had arrested or sacked hundreds of Afghan soldiers in a bid to stem a rise in insider attacks on NATO forces, a trend that threate...
Australia says Karzai 'wrong' on Afghan operation
Sep 03, 2012 (AFP)
Australia Monday flatly rejected comments from Afghan President Hamid Karzai that a recent night-time raid which left two men dead was carried out without the a...
N. Zealand confirms early Afghan exit
Sep 03, 2012 (AFP)
New Zealand confirmed Monday that its troops would end a decade-long deployment in Afghanistan at the end of April next year, about six months earlier than orig...
Rushed Afghan exit 'bad for image': Australia
Sep 02, 2012 (AFP)
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Sunday acknowledged the nation's weariness with the Afghan conflict after five more troop deaths but warned of "enormous...
US drone strike kills four in northwest Pakistan: officials
Sep 01, 2012 (AFP)
A US drone strike targeting a militant compound on Saturday killed at least four rebels in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, security off...
Australian military suffers worst day since Vietnam
Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)
Five Australian troops were killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan in what Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday described as the nation's deadliest...
Commentary: Global blivet
Aug 30, 2012 (UPI)
When Barak Obama was elected president four years ago, he had the whole world on a string. Hundreds of millions, if not billions, saw him as the man who would r...
NATO transition in Afghanistan 'irreversible': top commander
Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)
The transfer of security control from a US-led international mission to Afghan troops has reached an irreversible phase, a top NATO commander said Tuesday, as h...
17 beheaded at party in bloody Afghan day
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
Taliban Islamist insurgents beheaded 17 party-goers, 10 Afghan soldiers were killed and two NATO troops shot dead in a new insider attack in a bloody day across...
Afghan soldier kills two NATO troops in insider attack: ISAF
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
An Afghan army soldier killed two NATO troops in a new "green-on-blue" insider attack Monday, the US-led International Security Assistance Force said. "A member...
Three US Marines punished over Taliban urination video
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
Three US Marines have pleaded guilty and been sanctioned for urinating on the corpses of Afghan Taliban fighters and posing for pictures with the dead, the Quan...
Air strikes kill 12 insurgents in Afghanistan: NATO
Aug 25, 2012 (AFP)
Two air strikes in eastern Afghanistan killed a dozen insurgents, including a Pakistani Taliban commander, NATO and Afghan officials said Saturday. "There were ...
SEAL commando's book ignites new battle
Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)
US Navy SEALs are used to bullets and bombs, but a book by one of the commandos who killed Osama bin Laden has deployed the secretive unit into the even bigger ...
Taliban behind 25 percent of insider attacks: US general
Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)
The commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan said Thursday that the Taliban may be responsible for a greater share of "insider attacks" by Afghan soldiers agains...
Kabul blames 'foreign spy agencies' for insider attacks
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
Afghan officials on Wednesday blamed "infiltration by foreign spy agencies" into the ranks of its security forces for a rise in attacks by Afghan soldiers on US...
Police chief fired over Afghan insider attack on NATO
Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)
An Afghan district police chief has been fired after one of his men killed a NATO soldier, marking the start of a crackdown on the increasing number of insider ...
Top US general blasts ex-officers for attacking Obama
Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)
US military chief General Martin Dempsey denounced ex-officers Tuesday for waging a campaign against President Barack Obama, arguing that soldiers had a duty to...
Afghans ready to counter insider threat: top US general
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
Afghan leaders appear ready to take decisive action to curb unprecedented "insider attacks" by Afghan recruits that have killed 40 Western troops this year, the...
Pakistani bloggers accused of hate videos
Aug 20, 2012 (UPI)
Doctored videos showing apparent violence against Muslims in Assam that created panic originated on Pakistani blogs, an Indian minister said. Union Home Secreta...
Afghanistan will not unravel after troop exit: NATO
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
Afghanistan will not unravel into a civil war after the withdrawal of NATO combat troops in two years or return to Taliban rule, a senior NATO diplomat said Mon...
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