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Afghanistan
(Afghanistan) Troops help rebuild troubled province
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Afghanistan
(Afghanistan) Suicide bomber kills passer-by in Kandahar
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Afghanistan
NATO commander predicts 3-year Afghan campaign
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Afghanistan
Operation Medusa has ended. The Canadian Royal Regiment led the fighting, but British special forces played a key role in Operation Medusa, along with Dutch, Danish, U.S. and Afghan troops
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Operation Mountain Fury in Eastern Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces launch a multi-brigade operation in Paktika, Khost, Ghazni, Paktia and Logar provinces. Map of ISAF Mission in Afghanistan. Click to Enlarge. Afghan and Coalition forces have gone on the offensive in the southeastern provinces of Paktika, Khost, Ghazni, Paktya and Logar provinces. Over seven thousand troops are involved in Operation Mountain Fury, including a sizable contingent of Afghan security forces. “Approximately 4,000 Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police and Afghan National Border Police, along with approximately 3,000 U.S. Coalition forces in support, are conducting Mountain Fury in east-central Afghanistan,” according to the Combined Forces Command –…
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Afghanistan
Tensions Overshadow Gains in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Al Qaeda, opium fuel Afghan fighting: Nato commander
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Afghanistan
NATO fears new front in Afghanistan – Farah Province
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Afghanistan
Blurring of enemy lines
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Afghanistan
Over 50 Taliban an 8 Afghan police were killed in battles across Afghanistan. Poland will send 1,000 troops to boost the NATO mission, while Latvia will send an additional 20. An aerial photograph of over 190 Taliban gathering at a funeral and the failure to strike calls the rules of engagement into question.
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Afghanistan
50 Taliban, 8 policemen dead in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Swedish troops come under fire in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Canadians near mop-up phase for Afghan operation
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Afghanistan
Afghan forces killed 26 Taliban rebels and captured 28
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Afghanistan
Taliban adopting Iraq-style jihad
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Afghanistan
Nato rejects appeal to boost Afghan troops
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The Great Taliban Turkey Shoot
Coalition and Afghan Forces continue to decimate Taliban elements in southern and eastern Afghanistan Map of ISAF Mission in Afghanistan. Click to Enlarge. There is a hidden war being fought in Afghanistan, a war where NATO forces are playing a large role in combating Taliban forces outside of the view of the Western press. A little know fact is there are over 1,000 French troops in the region, including special forces units that are hunting al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the harsh mountains. Two French soldiers were recently killed fighting the Taliban. The French rarely release numbers of the…
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Afghanistan
U.S. Forces capture HIG chief and al Qaeda ally Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Afghan and Coalition forces retake Garmsir in Helmand province, killing 20 Taliban. NATO requested reserve force of 1,000 troops over 18 months ago.
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Afghanistan
Afghan army recaptures district in S. Afghanistan
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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Reported Captured [Updated]
The initial report was incorrect, Hekmatyar has not been captured, see the correction for details. On the day of the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 attack, Coalition forces score a high value target in Afghanistan. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the commander of Hezb-i-Islami and ally of al Qaeda and the Taliban, has been captured during a joint U.S. and Afghan Army raid in “eastern Afghanistan.” Hekmatyar, contrary to his rhetoric gave up to the Coalition forces without a fight. Hekmatyar’s arrest is said to be part of an ‘ongoing operation.’ Hekmatyar has been designated by the U.S. Department of State as a…
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Afghanistan
Sunday’s Taliban death toll has been revised upwards to 186 (see related post, which has been updated). Canada is sending an additional 15 tanks and 120 troops to Afghanistan. The Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. says Osama “is spending most of his time in Pakistan.” A suicide bomber strikes at the funeral of Hakim Taniwal, the governor of Paktia province, murdering 5 and wounding 10. Taniwal was killed during a suicide attack because “He’d managed to ease out a number of rather obnoxious militia.
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Afghanistan
Extending Canada™s mission in Afghanistan ‘right thing to do™
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Afghanistan
Afghan governor assassinated
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Afghanistan
Peace accord with the Talibans?
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Afghanistan
Ex-Taliban official tells of slay plot
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Canadian Forces Deal Taliban Another Blow in Kandahar (Updated)
Operation Medusa nets another 186 Taliban; initial report of bombmaking cell in Kabul confirmed The Taliban in the Panjwai district west of Kandahar City have suffered another round of massive casualties. The Royal Canadian Regiment, combined with Coalition air power, killed 186 Taliban fighters dug into fixed positions in the Pashmul region during two sperate engagements, bringing the nine day total of over 510 Taliban killed and 80 captured in 8 days of Operation Medusa. These are massive losses for a Taliban force estimated at around 10,000 fighters (12,000 by the Taliban’s own count). The Canadian Army has suffered 5…
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Afghanistan
The Taliban, Regrouped And Rearmed
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Medusa and the Kabul Cell
An Operation Medusa update and more on the suspected al Qaeda car bomb cell in Kabul Operation Medusa is in its seventh day, and Afghan and Canadian forces of the Canadian Royal Regiment, along with Coalition air forces continue to pound Taliban positions in the Panjwai district in Kandahar. An ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] report indicates at least 40 Taliban were killed in the latest round of fighting, while ABC News Online puts the number at 50. Estimated Taliban casualties in Medusa over the past week are around 350, with over 80 detained. The ISAF press release also confirms…
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Afghanistan
NATO agrees Afghan peace force needs boost
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The Afghan Insurgency
Operation Medusa update, Taliban IEDs and safe havens The Royal Canadian Regiment presses the fight against the Taliban holed up in the Panjwai district of Kandahar in southeastern Afghanistan. In the latest round of fighting, 21 Taliban have been killed and the Taliban is concentrating its forces in the Pashmul section of Panjwai. “The insurgents have chosen to stay in prepared positions, and from our point of view, they’re ‘fixed,’” said ISAF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nick Grant-Thorold. Up to 280 Taliban have been killed and 80 captured since Operation Medusa began last Saturday, and about 700 Taliban are believed to…
