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Petraeus on Afghan visit after supply routes deal
US forces killed 22 Taliban fighters during operations in southern and eastern Afghanistan. The US has secured alternative supply routes through Central Asia. The Afghan government seeks greater control over future NATO deployments.
US general: Kyrgyz base will not close
One teenager was killed and 16 other civilians were wounded in two suicide attacks and an IED attack against police and soldiers in Khost province. A Canadian soldier was seriously wounded in an IED attack during foot patrol in Kandahar's Panjwaii district.
Khyber Pass closed 'indefinitely' after Taliban attacks
A new operation is launched in an attempt to clear the route to Afghanistan of marauding Taliban forces. The pass has been closed five times since September 2008.The Taliban claimed control of 70 percent of rural Afghanistan and set up a shadow government with police, courts, and sharia law. The NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the Afghan government is "ineffective" and said officials were almost as much to blame for the insurgency as the Taliban.
A US soldier and four Afghans were killed in a suicide attack outside of the German Embassy in Kabul; another suicide attack killed an Afghan in Nangarhar. One US soldier was killed in a helicopter crash in Kunar.
Dutch troops launched an operation in Uruzgan province's Baluchi Valley. Two British soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Helmand province. A US helicopter crash landed outside of ul.Kab
A senior Afghan general in charge of western Afghanistan and 12 others died in a helicopter crash in Herat province. Two British soldiers were killed in Helmand province. The Taliban killed an ISAF contractor in Kapisa province and forced markets to close in Khost province.
Afghan and Coalition forces detained eight Haqqani Network and Taliban fighters during operations in Khost and Kandahar provinces on Jan. 10. The Chaman border crossing in Kandahar reopened for NATO supplies after protests in Pakistan ended. Kyrgyzstan threatened to shut down a key US airbase used by NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Major cache of IED materials seized in Afghanistan
Mullah Abdul Rasheed, a senior Taliban commander in Uruzgan, was killed in an airstrike. A British soldier was killed in an IED attack in Helmand province. The Dutch may stay in Afghanistan past 2010. The Australians hope to leave Afghanistan by 2012.
Taliban assault military base in Mohmand
The Taliban attacked a Frontier Corps base in battalion strength; 40 Taliban fighters and 15 Frontier Corps troops reported killed; more than 25 troops reported missing. Four soldiers were mutilated in Bajaur.
Australian special forces killed a Taliban leader and several other fighters during an operation in Uruzgan province. CENTCOM commander General David Petraeus said Iran should have an interest stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan, but there are "major conflicting interests" with the West.
US, Iran share interests in Afghanistan: Petraeus
Major Push Is Needed to Save Afghanistan, General Says
Five US soldiers and nine Afghans were killed in bombings throughout the country over the past two days. Coalition forces killed five Taliban fighters and detained three more during an operation in Zabul. Finland will send an additional 100 troops to Afghanistan.
Costs of war: No to tribal militias
Al Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan killed in New Year's strike
Veteran al Qaeda leaders Osama al Kini and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan were killed in the attack. The operatives were behind several major suicide attacks in Pakistan over the past two years.
Afghan and Coalition forces killed a Taliban IED facilitator in Helmand province and six Taliban fighters in Farah province, and detained five Haqqani Network fighters in Khost and Kandahar province. Eight Afghan women were killed in a rocket attack in Uruzgan province. One Canadian soldier was killed in an IED attack in Kandahar.
