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Afghan insurgents kidnapped nine people including eight Turkish nationals after their helicopter crashed near the border with Pakistan in the country’s east, a government official said.
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Estimates for a NATO-led force of as many as 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014 doesn’t include forces for counterterrorism operations and protection of U.S. diplomats, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford said.
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As many as five Afghan Army brigades can operate independently compared with a single unit that had a similar capability last year, according to Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, the head of the coalition military forces in Afghanistan.
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Airstrike by NATO’s International Security Assistance Force took place late yesterday in eastern Kunar province, provincial spokesman Wasifullah Wasifi said.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation after a provincial official said 11 children died during a daylong battle between coalition forces and Taliban fighters.
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Five U.S. citizens, including two civilians, died in a suicide car bomb attack by the Taliban on their road convoy in southern Afghanistan, the deadliest attack on Americans in the country since July, officials said.
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President Barack Obama’s failure to spell out his plans for Afghanistan is adding to the risk that some Afghans will start negotiating deals with the Taliban, according to former U.S. officials who visited the country.
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Two U.S. soldiers serving with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force were shot dead today by an Afghan police officer in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
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A civilian contractor with the International Security Assistance Force was shot dead today in eastern Afghanistan, the ISAF said.
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Afghanistan and the U.S. have agreed that prisoners at the Parwan detention facility outside Kabul will be turned over to the Afghans tomorrow, according to the Pentagon.
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