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/ 10 February 2009
United States President Barack Obama has vowed to prevent al-Qaeda from operating ”with impunity” in Afghanistan.
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/ 4 February 2009
Pakistani engineers on Wednesday opened an alternative supply route for Nato in Afghanistan after militants blew up a key bridge and torched trucks.
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/ 3 February 2009
The Pentagon, in a report to Congress, said insurgent violence was on the rise across Afghanistan.
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/ 23 January 2009
Three civilians were killed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on Friday as government pondered its options for wresting control of the valley from militants.
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/ 20 January 2009
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday the killing of civilians by foreign troops was a main source of instability in Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday Pakistan had sent India a response to evidence from the Mumbai attacks.
US-led coalition forces killed 32 insurgents in fighting that erupted in a village in Afghanistan following a raid on a hideout of bomb-makers.
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/ 29 December 2008
The death toll from a suicide car bombing at a polling station in northwest Pakistan has risen to 41, police said Monday.
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/ 23 December 2008
Afghanistan has become the heart of the ‘war on terror’ — and 2008 saw a string of reversals for the Nato forces.
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/ 21 December 2008
The United States is to deploy up to 30 000 more troops in Afghanistan by next summer.
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/ 19 December 2008
A lorry load of Christmas turkeys for British troops in Afghanistan on Friday fell victim to a roadside bomb planted by Taliban insurgents.
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/ 26 November 2008
President Hamid Karzai has criticised the US and other foreign countries for creating a ”parallel government” in Afghanistan’s countryside.
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/ 22 November 2008
The Pentagon is considering a plan to send 20 000 troops to Afghanistan over the next 12 to 18 months to quell rising Taliban violence.
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/ 14 November 2008
Suspected US drones fired missiles into a Pakistani tribal region on Friday, killing 12 people, including five foreigners.
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/ 12 November 2008
Attackers used a water pistol to spray acid at schoolgirls in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar Wednesday, hurting 15 of them.
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/ 29 October 2008
A project that was to bring economic prosperity has become a symbol of failure, writes James Palmer.
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/ 27 October 2008
A suspected US drone fired missiles on Monday into a Pakistani region on the Afghan border that is a stronghold of a Pakistani Taliban leader.
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/ 26 October 2008
A South African and a Briton shot dead in Kabul were killed by one of their own guards who then committed suicide, Interior Ministry officials said.
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/ 25 October 2008
One South African and one British employee of DHL, together with an Afghan guard, were killed in a shooting in the Afghan capital on Saturday.
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/ 23 October 2008
While most of the world spent last weekend trembling for its wealth, in Afghanistan the Taliban busied themselves dying in quite large numbers.
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/ 20 October 2008
A British aid worker was shot dead in Kabul on Monday in a killing claimed by the Taliban which accused her organisation of ”preaching Christianity”.
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/ 20 October 2008
Taliban fighters killed a South African female aid worker on Monday as she was going to her office in the western part of Kabul.
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/ 12 October 2008
About 100 militants were killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, half in air strikes that thwarted a major attack on a key town overnight.
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/ 10 October 2008
A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people in an attack on a tribal council meeting in Pakistan’s north-west Orakzai region on Friday.
The US called on Nato on Thursday to allow the alliance to attack the Afghan opium trade, which it said was bringing the Taliban up to -million.
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/ 26 September 2008
Pakistani forces have killed up to 1 000 Islamist militants in fighting in the Bajaur region this month, an army commander said on Friday.
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/ 24 September 2008
Three policemen were killed by a landmine planted by Taliban insurgents in a police post in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, a police official said.
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/ 22 September 2008
The "face of Islamabad", the Marriott hotel, was left a charred shell on Sunday, a grim testament to the war against Islamic extremists.
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/ 15 September 2008
Taliban militants dragged a school teacher out of a mosque in Afghanistan and cut off his ears as a ”punishment” for working for the government.
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/ 12 September 2008
An order issued by George Bush giving US forces carte blanche to mount operations inside Pakistan raised fears that the conflict was spreading.
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/ 8 September 2008
Missiles fired by United States drone aircraft killed at least three people on Monday in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border.
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/ 8 September 2008
The US military said it planned to reopen an investigation into civilian deaths in a coalition air strike in western Afghanistan last month.