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Britain building Pakistan border force camp: report




Afghan and Coalition forces killed six Taliban fighters in Wardak province and detained seven more in Kunduz. Fifty Taliban fighters in Kunduz joined the government. The Taliban killed two Polish soldiers and one US soldier in IED attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan, and killed an Afghan Army officer in Kunduz. An ISAF UAV crashed in Kunduz.




Taliban 'have control of another district in eastern Afghanistan'

"This means they are not coming back," a Taliban spokesman said after US troops abandoned two outposts after a deadly battle in Nuristan. "This is another victory for Taliban."


Afghanistan: Shadows in the Shuryak Valley




Taliban claim victory in Kamdesh after attack on US Camp Keating




US: Taliban has grown fourfold




Senior insurgent leader reported killed in Western Afghanistan

Ghulam Yahya Akbari, the "Tajik Taliban," was reported killed with a dozen of his followers. Akbari was once an ally of the Karzai regime and served as a provincial minister in Herat.


US pulls out of two Nuristan outposts, hands Taliban propaganda victory




US and Afghan forces killed a Taliban commander and 19 fighters in Herat province and 24 other Taliban fighters in clashes in Kunar, Wardak, and Ghazni. The Taliban killed six Afghans in a suicide attack in Paktika province and a British soldier in southern Afghanistan. The US withdrew from two combat outposts in Nuristan.




Afghanistan: Top troop request exceeds 60,000




Afghan commandos return from mission




Nuristan base nearly destroyed in Taliban attack




Barack Obama: Taliban can be involved in Afghanistan future




Taliban owns up Kabul blast, shifts focus from ISI




Gates gives Obama Afghan troop request




Analysis: Al Qaeda is the tip of the jihadist spear

The editors of The Long War Journal take a look at the insurgency in Afghanistan through al Qaeda's eyes.


Taliban claims responsibility for Indian embassy blast




'Al Qaeda facilitates insurgency'




Car bomb kills 17 near Indian embassy in Kabul




A Taliban suicide bomber killed 17 Afghans and wounded more than 80 in an attack outside the Indian embassy in Kabul. US and Afghan troops killed 17 Taliban fighters in Helmand, 10 in Paktika, and one more in Zabul. The Taliban killed a Spanish soldier in western Afghanistan.


 
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