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Camp Bastion assault: Two US marines die in ‘Taliban revenge’

YoopyaSep 15, 20120

Insurgents have attacked Nato’s heavily fortified Camp Bastion base in southern Afghanistan. At least two US marines died when militants breached the perimeter of the

U.S. probes reported record-shredding of fuel buys for Afghan army

YoopyaSep 10, 20120

(Reuters) – Investigators are probing reports of record-shredding by officials in the U.S.-led NATO command that trains the Afghan army after learning that records of

Obama talks beer, money, and war in online chat session

YoopyaAug 30, 20120

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama tested his typing skills on Wednesday in an online chat with young people that covered the White House beer recipe,

Five Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

YoopyaAug 30, 20120

Five Australian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in two separate incidents, defence officials say. Three soldiers were killed by a man in Afghan army

U.S. troops punished over Koran burning, urination video

YoopyaAug 28, 20120

(Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Monday it was disciplining U.S. troops over two incidents that provoked outrage in Afghanistan early this year, one

Analysis: Afghanistan’s peace hopes may rest on Taliban captive

YoopyaAug 21, 2012June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – In the cloistered circles of the Taliban high command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar had no equal. As military chief of the hardline Islamic

Afghan rocket attack damages US army chief plane

YoopyaAug 21, 20120

An insurgent rocket attack on a US air base in Afghanistan has damaged the plane of America’s top military officer while he was on a

Afghan defense minister quits, hands Karzai a security headache

YoopyaAug 7, 20120

(Reuters) – Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak resigned on Tuesday after losing a no-confidence vote in parliament, leaving President Hamid Karzai scrambling to find

Special Report: Obama’s struggle to mend veterans’ safety net

YoopyaJul 26, 20120

(Reuters) – On a blistering June afternoon, President Barack Obama slipped into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to spend time with soldiers wounded in

Taliban bomb destroys 22 NATO supply trucks in Afghan north

YoopyaJul 18, 20120

(Reuters) – A bomb planted by the Taliban destroyed 22 NATO trucks carrying supplies to their forces in northern Afghanistan, the Taliban and police said