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Sri Lankan air force jets bombed a rebel training camp in the north as ground forces waged new battles with Tamil Tiger rebels across the front lines, the military said Wednesday.
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AFP - Fourteen Afghan security guards were killed in a clash with US-led troops, a provincial governor said Monday, but the military said they were suspected militants who fired first.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy Thursday as it passed through a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least eight civilians and an American soldier, Afghan officials said. The explosion also wounded 74 people near the livestock market...(more)
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AP - Iraq's two most powerful Shiite clerics on Friday challenged the government's planned security pact with the United States, undercutting efforts to reach a deal before the U.N. mandate for American troops in Iraq expires Dec. 31.
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The U.S. military account says at least two officials aided insurgents in the concentrated, lengthy assault in July that also injured 27 American soldiers and four Afghan troops. Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey -- A U.S. military report released today said at least two...(more)
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The U.S. military, bracing for the first wartime presidential transition in 40 years, is preparing for potential crises during the vulnerable handover period, including possible attacks by al-Qaeda and destabilizing developments in Iraq or Afghanistan, according to senior military officials. "I think the enemy could...(more)
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Iraq's largest Sunni party freezes contacts with US civilian and military personnel in protest at a shooting in Fallujah.
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AP - No one knows for sure, but auditors think the U.S. has paid well over $6 billion to private security companies who've been guarding diplomats, troops, Iraqi officials and reconstruction workers in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military has barred Iraqi interpreters working with American troops in Baghdad from wearing ski masks to disguise themselves, prompting some to resign and others to bare their faces even though they fear it could get them killed. Many interpreters employed by...(more)
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AFP - A Briton and a South African shot dead in Kabul were killed by one of their own guards who then committed suicide, interior ministry officials said Sunday.
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Reuters - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five suspected militants, possibly including an Arab al Qaeda operative, intelligence officials said.
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The response to Afghan officials' claims is unusually swift. But the U.S. stops short of taking direct blame for 37 civilian deaths and 35 injuries during fighting with insurgents. Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey -- The U.S. military acknowledged today that 37 civilians were...(more)
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