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Officials: US Missiles Kill 9 People In PakistanU.S. drone-fired missiles hit a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing nine people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 08:54
Court martial begins for Marine sergeant accused of hazing squad member who committed suicide
KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii - A sergeant singled out a member of his squad at their patrol base in Afghanistan, a military prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of the military trial of a Hawaii-based Marine accused of hazing a fellow Marine who later committed suicide in Afghanistan.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 07:54
Soldier killed in bomb blast was unlawfully killed
A SOUTH Yorkshire soldier who died in a massive Taliban bomb blast in Afghanistan was unlawfully killed, an inquest has ruled.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 04:50
Military officer: Afghanistan War shows 'absence of success on virtually every level'
A member of the Afghan Honor Guard helps brush away debris on the carpet for the arrival ceremony for U.S. Sec.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 00:30
US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,769
As of Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at least 1,769 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 20:11
Special operations' Afghan role could be expanded
Adm. Bill McRaven said Tuesday that special operations forces in Afghanistan are preparing for a possible expanded role as overall U.S. forces begin to draw down after a decade of war.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 19:10
Afghan child labour fears grow as aid dries up
Dwindling development aid as the war winds down in Afghanistan means child labour in the impoverished country is at risk of becoming more widespread, the International Labour Organisation warned on Tuesday.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 17:06
Official: 5 men killed in shooting in Afghanistan
An Afghan official says a shooting in the southern city of Kandahar has left five dead, including two police officers and three private security guards.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 12:51
Stamford Pupils Buy Prosthetic Leg for Afghan Girl
Safa, an 8-year-old Afghan girl, got a prosthetic leg and a doll thanks to donations from students at Grace Christian School in Stamford.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 08:36
NATO exit to lead Afghanistan to civil war: Imran
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said a coalition government must be set up in Kabul or there would be more bloodshed when Western troops pulled out.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 04:27
Reports on Afghanistan war too rosy? Army officer, others say yes.
In this November 2011 file photo, Afghans watch the scene of a roadside bomb in Laghman, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 00:13
Afghan Suicide Attack Targets Police in Kandahar
A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle at a police parking lot in central Kandahar on Sunday, killing at least seven people, including five police officers and a child, in the fourth attempted or successful suicide bombing there in less than a month.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 19:58
Gilani to talk Afghan peace in Qatar
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will brief the Qatar leadership about Pakistan's talks with Afghanistan during a three-day official visit to Qatar, a country where the Taliban is to open a political office.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 15:44
Marine sergeant accused of hazing goes to trial
A second Marine is going to trial for allegedly hazing a fellow Marine who later fatally shot himself in Afghanistan.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 11:38
Freezing to Death in Afghanistan
They won't all make it. Never in all of my life will I forget the freezing 2006/08 winter in Afghanistan.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 09:29
Life and war in Afghanistan: February 2012
An Afghan woman clad in burqa is carried in a wheelbarrow to a bus station, as the ground is covered with snow in Kabul.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 05:24
Va. man is highest-ranking officer to die in Afghanistan
A one-star U.S. Army general from Fairfax County was found dead in his Kabul sleeping quarters on Friday, and Defense Department officials said he is the highest-ranking officer to die during the war in Afghanistan .
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 01:14
Four killed in Afghanistan avalanche
Kabul, Feb 5: At least four people were killed and six injured after an avalanche hit some villages in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, Xinhua reported Sunday.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 21:00
Car Bomb Kills Kandahar Police Officers; Injures Dozens
Afghan officials say at least seven people, including five police officers, were killed when a car bomb exploded outside police headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 16:55
Afghan police: US soldier shoots Afghan guard
Afghans walk over snow after a snow storm on a hill side in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 12:41
An Attack on Iran Must be Stopped
The Anglo-American aggression addicts haven't kicked the habit. The team that brought you shock and awe and Operation Infinite Justice is gearing up for yet another crack at winning a senseless war in the Middle East.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 08:36
Afghan Taliban deny Mullah Omar wrote to White House
The Afghan Taliban denied on Saturday that the group's leader Mullah Omar wrote to the White House last year.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 04:26
Civilian deaths in Afghan war up for fifth year: UN
Civilian deaths undermine support both in Afghanistan and the United States for the U.S.-led war, and are one of the biggest causes of friction between President Hamid Karzai and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force .
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 00:22
Bush's 'evil' trio holds sway over US decade later
It was the first State of the Union address after the 9/11 attacks, and America was leading an invasion of Afghanistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 20:17
US Army: Brigadier general has died in Afghanistan
A statement posted on the Fort Hood website says Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner died Friday in Kabul of apparent natural causes.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 16:08
Afghan officials hope to reopen Kabul airport after heavy snowfall
Afghan officials say they are hopeful that the country's largest airport will reopen after being closed due to heavy snowfall.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 11:48
UN: 2011 was deadliest year on record for Afghan civilians, saw increase in suicide attacks
A U.N. report issued on Saturday said last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians, with 3,021 killed in the war.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 11:48
Pakistan PM to visit Qatar to talk Afghan peace
Pakistan's prime minister will travel to the Gulf state of Qatar next week to talk with government leaders there about moves to broker a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 07:44
Charges dropped against soldier in Afghan deaths
The Army on Friday dropped all charges against the fifth soldier accused of murdering Afghan civilians for sport during a 2010 deployment, in one of the most gruesome cases to emerge from the Afghan war.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 03:34
Sources: Taliban leader sent letter to Obama
Current and former U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar wrote to President Barack Obama last year indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 23:25
Romney Playing With Fire on Afghanistan
Mitt Romney's sharp criticism Wednesday of President Obama's newly planned troop withdrawal in Afghanistan raises a thorny question for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee: Why is he intent on aligning himself with such an unpopular position? The answer might lie in a candidate willing to lose a battle to win the war.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 19:15
NATO mulls paying for Afghan forces after 2014
NATO defense ministers on Friday tackled the controversial issue of how to pay for Afghanistan's expanding security forces after they assume responsibility for the war in 2014.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 15:16
Intelligence Committee Debates Cyberthreats
The United States will soon suffer a catastrophic cyberattack if it doesn't act now to prevent it, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee warned Thursday.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 12:16
Taliban local leader detained in S. Afghan town: NATO
Afghan and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during a joint operation on Friday in Helmand province 555 km south of Afghan capital Kabul captured a Taliban local leader, a statement released by the alliance here said, Xinhua reported.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 08:31
Video: Protecting America from cyber attacks
Some of the nation's top intelligence officials warned that cyber attacks could become more serious threat to national security than terrorism.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 07:06
North Ridgeville soldier home after close call in Afghanistan
NORTH RIDGEVILLE - Two months ago, an improvised explosive device blew up beneath the armored patrol vehicle carrying Army Spc.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 02:57
Afghanistan: Violating the prime directive again
NOTHING in my life has made me as pessimistic about development aid as the course of the American intervention in Afghanistan.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 22:52
Taliban unlikely threat in reshaped Afghanistan
Among the snippets in a secret NATO report detailing the hopes of jailed Taliban militants to retake Afghanistan was news the Islamist movement had set up telephone hotlines for Afghans to report anonymously on failures of its shadow government.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 18:48
Supreme Court to charge Pakistani PM with contempt
A Pakistan paramilitary soldier and women police officers stand guard at the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 14:28
Taliban Deny Possible Talks With Afghans
A spokesman for the Taliban denied on Wednesday a weekend report that Taliban representatives may meet with officials representing the government of President Hamid Karzai in Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 10:23
Aussie claim about comrade's Afghan death rejected
A military inquiry on Thursday rejected an Australian soldier's allegations that a comrade died unnecessarily during a gunbattle in Afghanistan because the U.S.-led coalition provided inadequate air support.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 06:08
U.S. to end Afghan combat mission in 2013
The United States and NATO want to end their combat mission in Afghanistan next year, transitioning primarily to a training role in which Afghan security forces will take the lead, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 03:04
Gunmen kill 11 paramilitary soldiers in Pakistan
Gunmen attacked a paramilitary checkpoint in southwestern Pakistan, killing 11 soldiers and increasing tension in an area where a separatist insurgency has raged for decades, the military said Wednesday.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 22:50
Another NATO service member killed by Afghan soldier
An Afghan soldier shot and killed a NATO service member in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, in what the international coalition described as an attack and an Afghan commander called an accident.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 18:35
Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO pullout
Taliban militants hand over their weapons after joining the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program, in Herat January 30, 2012.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 14:25
Senate Discusses Iran Nuclear Program
Iran took center stage on Tuesday as top U.S. intelligence officials and senators discussed what could trigger a military response to the Islamic Republic's nuclear activities.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 10:11