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- US President Barack Obama called for a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims'' on Thursday and said together, they could confront violent extremism across the globe and advance the timeless search for peace in the Middle East. [..]
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- A bomb attack has hit the German Embassy in Kabul and the embassy has caught fire after the explosion. At least four US troops have been wounded. [..]
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- Three Danish soldiers and one from the Netherlands were killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan, losing their lives just as the commitment of some countries to the fight in Afghanistan begins to wane. [..]
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- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to assure Australian troops they have not been forgotten over the Christmas period, the national news agency reported on Thursday. [..]
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- Troops killed 44 militants in Afghanistan, officials said, as around a dozen police and soldiers were still missing following a major clash and believed to be in Taliban hands. Thirty-three of the militants were killed in a firefight on Friday in the southern province of Helmand, a Taliban stronghold where several districts are said to be in the hands of the al-Qaida-linked insurgents. [..]
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- China is not planning on sending troops to Afghanistan to join the International Security Assistance Force there, state media said on Tuesday. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said last week in New York that it was possible China would send troops to Afghanistan. [..]
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- A series of operations by US forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an al-Qaida leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants, official said.An Afghan police chief said officials were checking unconfirmed reports that civilians may have been killed. The operations took place on Friday in Nangarhar and Khost provinces, volatile regions along the Pakistan border. [..]
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- More than 1,000 demonstrators shouted anti Taliban slogans in eastern Afghanistan to protest the slayings this week of 26 young men from their community by militants in the south. [..]
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- Daud Ahamdi, the spokesman for Helmand province's governor, says 62 militants were killed early Sunday by Afghan soldiers and NATO airstrikes after they launched a surprise attack on the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. [..]
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- A missile strike by a suspected US spy drone hit a compound in a Pakistan’s tribal area bordering Afghanistan late Saturday killing five people. Two missiles struck a compound just outside Miranshah, which killed five people and injured 2 who were shifted to nearby hospital.
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