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Several civilian casualties feared after NATO operation in northern Afghanistan Print E-mail
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Monday, 30 August 2010
KABUL (BNO NEWS) -- Coalition forces are investigating claims of civilian casualties after a mishap during a NATO operation in northern Afghanistan earlier this month, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Monday.
 
UK police officers face charges of assaulting Muslim Print E-mail
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Saturday, 14 August 2010
London : Britain’s Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer announced Thursday that four police officers will face assault charges over the wrongful arrest of computer expert Babar Ahmad nearly seven years ago.
 
House Approves $59 Billion for Afghan War Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010
WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved $59 billion to fund the Afghan war and other emergency spending, sending the bill to President Barack Obama's desk after brushing aside revelations contained in a cache of leaked military documents.
 
Helmand residents accuse Nato of deliberate attack on civilians Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Survivors of an alleged Nato rocket attack on a small town in Helmand, which the Afghan government says killed 52 civilians, spoke today of their anger at what they claim was a deliberate air strike, despite coalition denials.
 
16 Casualties among civilian casualties shot or bombed by British troops Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010
The US army's archives contain descriptions of at least 21 separate occasions in which British troops are said to have shot or bombed Afghan civilians, including women and children.

Civilians shot by UK forces: read all cases from the war logs
 
Pakistan needs to cooperate more: Holbrooke Print E-mail
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Friday, 23 July 2010
LONDON: US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke on Friday said that Pakistan is cooperating more with US-backed Afghan peace efforts but not to the extent sought by Washington.
 
Mapping US drone and Islamic militant attacks in Pakistan Print E-mail
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Friday, 23 July 2010
Since January 2009 nearly 2,500 people have been killed in Pakistan as a result of US drones and Islamic militant attacks. The graphics below show how Islamic militant strongholds in the border area close to Afghanistan have been targeted by US drone aircraft, while, at the same time, Islamic militants have carried out attacks across Pakistan.
 
Hundreds of Afghanistan contractor deaths go unreported Print E-mail
War On Terror
Saturday, 17 July 2010
In one of the least examined aspects of President Obama's escalation of the Afghan war, armed private security contractors are being killed in action by the hundreds -- at a rate more than four times that of U.S. troops, according to a previously unreported congressional study.
 
US speeds up shipping mly equipment through Pakistan to Afghanistan Print E-mail
War On Terror
Saturday, 17 July 2010
ISLAMABAD – The US military is briskly engaged in completing its major logistics operation to ship massive military equipment for its troops in Afghanistan ostensibly as a last bid to rout insurgents intensely fighting the US-led forces to drive them out of the war-torn country.
 
The graveyard of empires Print E-mail
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Sunday, 04 July 2010
Afghanistan, "the graveyard of empires" where no foreign invader since Genghis Khan has been able to get a foothold, is a lost cause for the West. The unceremonious exit of the top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal over his acerbic and unflattering remarks in a magazine interview about President Obama, Vice President Biden and key members of his Afghanistan team, is symptomatic of this failure.
 
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