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Afghan Forces Recapture at Least 65 From Taliban Jailbreak
By not in system - AOL NewsKANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan forces have recaptured at least 65 of the prisoners who escaped from the south's largest prison, the government said Tuesday as it scrambled to recover from the massive security breach that allowed 480 inmates to be spirited out in a stunning jailbreak. Prison officials discovered early Monday morning that the convicts - nearly all of them Taliban militants - were missing from their cells, and then found the tunnel through which they appeared to have made their getaway. The Taliban said the prison break was five months in the making, with diggers starting the ...
NATO Repels Insurgent Attack in East Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - NATO forces killed seven insurgents who tried to storm their way onto a base in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said Wednesday. NATO said the attack was carried out late Tuesday in the city of Jalalabad by insurgents firing assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. A statement from the coalition added that NATO forces returned fire and called in an attack helicopter. It said there were no coalition casualties; there were no further details on the killed insurgents. There has been an increase in battles between U.S.-led forces and insurgents in the past couple of ...
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Afghan Riots Over Quran-Burning Leave 20 Dead in 2 Days
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans rioted for a second day Saturday to protest the burning of a Quran in Florida, killing nine people in Kandahar and injuring more than 80 in a wave of violence that underscored rising anti-foreign sentiment after nearly a decade of war. The desecration at a small U.S. church has outraged Muslims worldwide, and in Afghanistan it further strained ties with the West. On Friday, 11 people were killed, including seven foreign U.N. employees, in a protest in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Mustafa Najafizada, AP An Afghan policeman walks past a burned ...
Pentagon to Buy More Tethered Balloons to Watch Over Afghanistan
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsHelium-filled balloons equipped with cameras are gaining popularity with the U.S. military as a cheaper alternative to using high-flying drones in Afghanistan, and now the Pentagon plans to buy another half dozen of the tethered craft to keep watch over the Kandahar Airfield. The Pentagon has already deployed tethered aerostats -- essentially blimps tied to the ground -- to Afghanistan as part of what is called the Persistent Ground Surveillance System, which combines lighter-than-air vehicles with cameras and a ground control station. Military officials have credited the aerostats with ...
Afghan Government: NATO Assault Killed 65 Civilians
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Sixty-five civilians, including 40 children, were killed in a NATO assault on insurgents in eastern Afghanistan earlier this month, according to findings of an Afghan government investigation released Sunday. Tribal leaders had alleged that dozens of civilians were killed in the operation in Kunar province, which involved rocket and air strikes, but NATO has not confirmed any civilian deaths. The incident inflamed tensions between the Afghan government and NATO forces, and both sides opened investigations. Civilian deaths have been increasing in recent months as ...
Spike in Opium Prices Threatens Progress in Afghan Drug War
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsA recent surge in opium prices could encourage Afghan farmers to expand cultivation of the narcotic crop and reverse advances in the fight against drug production in the war-torn country, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warned today. The UNODC said a blight that cut poppy production by half in 2010 and continuing military operations in Afghanistan have spawned uncertainty about future cultivation and speculation that there will be shortages, which has led opium prices to soar. AFP / Getty Images Afghan villagers tend to opium poppies in Helmand province in April 2007. ...
Report: US Sending 1,400 More Troops to Afghanistan
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsThe U.S. is sending 1,400 more Marines into Afghanistan ahead of a spring thaw, when fighting usually picks up with the Taliban, to try to cement security gains ahead of the July start of a U.S. troop withdrawal, according to a published report. Unidentified American officials told The Wall Street Journal that Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the new deployment of more Marine combat forces in a surprise move on Wednesday. Temporarily adding front-line forces could help counter an anticipated spring offensive by Taliban militants returning from havens in neighboring Pakistan, they ...
Taliban Kill 13 Afghan Soldiers and Police
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters struck at Afghan security forces Sunday, storming an army recruiting center in the north that sparked a daylong gunbattle, and ambushing a bus carrying army officers in the capital - the first major attack in Kabul in months. At least 13 Afghan security forces were killed in the two attacks, with the firefight at the recruiting center in the northern province of Kunduz ending only after the last remaining militant detonated his suicide vest, local police officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for both operations. Separately, the head of the ...
Suicide Attacker Kills 6 NATO Troops in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 12) -- An explosives-packed minibus blew up at the entrance of a joint NATO-Afghan base in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing six NATO troops and two Afghan soldiers as they prepared to head out on patrol. NATO has claimed improvements in security after months of raids, patrols and strikes on insurgents in Kandahar province, but Sunday's blast - the deadliest attack on coalition troops this month - shows the area is still far from safe. The assault comes days ahead of a major White House review of its Afghan strategy following President Barack Obama's decision ...
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