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A NATO air strike hit an insurgent base in southern Afghanistan Friday, knocking out some 30 Taliban. The air strike was in retaliation for a militant attack on nearby police posts, but it also killed 25 civilians in the process, including 9 women, 3 children and a village mullah, according...
Nearly 6,000 people have been killed in Afghanistan over the past year and a half, according to press accounts and human rights groups. About 1,500 were civilians. While suicide bombs and other insurgent activities have killed the bulk of those civilians, comparisons between international and insurgent-inflicted death...
A bomb tore through a police academy bus in central Kabul this morning, in another disturbing reflection in Afghanistan of the early insurgent activities that eventually threw Iraq into bloody instability. The attack appears to have expressly targeted Afghanistan's fledgling police force, killing 35 police instructors, police officers and...
Afghan police have long been perceived to be ineffectual and corrupt, but over the past few years intensive police training programs have started to bear fruit. Slowly the force is gaining respect among Afghans. A planned ceremony marking the handover of the program from the Germans to an international training...
January's attack on U.S. forces at the Iraqi government complex in Karbala has become a kind of epic unsolved mystery among troops at Forward Operating Base Iskan, where soldiers from the unit involved are based. There is no shortage of theories among the roughly 30 troops who were there...