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New strikes against Taliban are expected
The Afghan Army said three commanders were among 22 Taliban killed during fighting in the Nawa district of Helmand province. Three Taliban fighters and a security guard were killed in a firefight in Ghazni province. Two ISAF troops were killed in eastern Afghanistan and a British Marine was killed near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province. A British Harrier crashed at Kandahar Airfield and a USAF Predator crashed in eastern Afghanistan.
Why America's commander in Afghanistan was fired - A general's marching orders
US urges probe into Afghan school poisonings
Taliban center in Pakistan: US envoy
Afghan forces killed 16 Taliban fighters in the Batkhela district in Paktika province. A suicide bomber wounded four members of the border police in Kandahar™s Spin-Boldak district. Members of Parliament said the Taliban are expanding their control of Helmand province.
In bleak Afghan outpost, troops slog on
US fights Taliban on another front: public relations
Afghan peace mediators in contact with Mullah Omar
Afghanistan: Drug traffickers captured with half a ton of opium
A suicide car bomber killed seven civilians in an attack outside a US base in Khost province. Six Taliban fighters were killed after rocketing a US base in Paktika province. The Taliban killed one Afghan soldier in Wardak province and wounded six Afghan soldiers during an ambush in Ghazni province.
Afghanistan: Taliban use voter cards as 'visas'
Australia: Afghanistan war spending to double
Taliban launches complex assault in Haqqani country
Suicide assault teams target military and government buildings in Khost, the home of the Haqqani Network.The Taliban took credit for a series of suicide and armed attacks against government buildings in Khost province that killed 20 people. Afghan and Coalition forces killed five Taliban fighters and wounded six more in Herat province, and detained two more in Kunduz, two in Helmand, and one in Kunar. More than 30 girls in Kapisa province were made ill in the third poisoning at schools in two weeks.
Changing course in Afghanistan
Taliban using poison gas on Afghan schoolgirls?
Afghan girls, scarred by acid, defy terror, embracing school
General McChrystal will replace General McKiernan as the senior most commander in Afghanistan; McKiernan was asked to resign by Defense Secretary Gates. The Afghan parliament wants to pass a law to place restrictions on foreign troops to prevent civilian casualties.
US to replace commander in Afghanistan
