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Crew Of US Cargo Plane That Took Flight As Afghans Fell To Death Cleared: Report
Video of the horrific incident, recorded by Afghan news media, were widely shared on social media. It showed stowaways looking like dots dropping from the plane.
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Rockets Fired At Kabul Airport, Intercepted By Missile Defence System
Rockets were fired at Kabul's airport on Monday where US troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of ISIS group attacks.
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At Least 60 Dead In Kabul Blasts; ISIS Claims Responsibility
ISIS struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday, killing scores of civilians and at least 13 U.S. troops, disrupting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desperate to flee.
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US Military Confirms Death Of ISIS Afghanistan Leader
US and Afghan troops killed the leader of the ISIS's Afghanistan affiliate in an April raid, US military officials confirmed on Sunday.
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Death Toll Rises To 50 In Afghanistan's Kandahar Airport Siege: Officials
The death toll from a 27-hour Taliban siege of Kandahar airport has jumped to 50, Afghan officials said today, after a conference in Pakistan shored up international support for reviving peace talks.
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Alarm rises for Afghan women prisoners after Western troops leave
After Farida's husband sold their three-year-old daughter to support his drug habit of several years, she took a knife and stabbed him to death in their house in the western Afghan province of Herat.
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NATO says troops kill two Afghan boys due to mistaken identity
NATO forces accidentally shot dead two boys during an operation in Afghanistan's south, the alliance said on Saturday, in the latest in a series of incidents involving allegations of civilian deaths at the hands of international troops.
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Afghan inside attack puts US troop deaths at 2,000
An apparent insider attack by Afghan forces has killed a U.S. service member and a foreign civilian contractor with NATO, officials said Sunday. The attack -the latest in a string of strikes by Afghan allies on international troops - marked the 2,000th U.S. troop death in Afghanistan over the long-running conflict.
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Man in Afghan army uniform kills NATO soldier: NATO
A man dressed in Afghan army uniform opened fire at NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing one service member, the military said.The death brings to 20 the number of NATO soldiers killed by Afghan colleagues in at least 15 separate attacks so far this year.
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On Osama's death anniversary, Obama makes a trip to Afghanistan
President Barack Obama flexed some presidential muscle making a high-profile trip to Afghanistan on the anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US troops a year ago. In the prime-time speech, beamed back to the US, Mr Obama addressed Americans live from Bagram Air Base reminding Americans that he had wound down two unpopular wars and vowed...
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NATO reports four troop deaths in Afghanistan
NATO says that two service members have been killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while two others have died of non-battle injuries. The coalition said in statements that one service member was killed by an improvised explosive device on Wednesday and another by a similar weapon on Tuesday. NATO said the two other service members d...
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US troops return to deadly Afghan valley in east
Just months after pulling out of a remote slice of eastern Afghanistan dubbed the "Valley of Death," U.S. troops are back reinforcing their once-abandoned bases in the area - a hotbed of the insurgency and a dangerous second front in the decade-old war.
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Afghan media slams British commandos
Afghan journalists have blamed international troops for the death of a kidnapped colleague during a rescue operation.
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Crew Of US Cargo Plane That Took Flight As Afghans Fell To Death Cleared: Report
Video of the horrific incident, recorded by Afghan news media, were widely shared on social media. It showed stowaways looking like dots dropping from the plane.
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Rockets Fired At Kabul Airport, Intercepted By Missile Defence System
Rockets were fired at Kabul's airport on Monday where US troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of ISIS group attacks.
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At Least 60 Dead In Kabul Blasts; ISIS Claims Responsibility
ISIS struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday, killing scores of civilians and at least 13 U.S. troops, disrupting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desperate to flee.
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US Military Confirms Death Of ISIS Afghanistan Leader
US and Afghan troops killed the leader of the ISIS's Afghanistan affiliate in an April raid, US military officials confirmed on Sunday.
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Death Toll Rises To 50 In Afghanistan's Kandahar Airport Siege: Officials
The death toll from a 27-hour Taliban siege of Kandahar airport has jumped to 50, Afghan officials said today, after a conference in Pakistan shored up international support for reviving peace talks.
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Alarm rises for Afghan women prisoners after Western troops leave
After Farida's husband sold their three-year-old daughter to support his drug habit of several years, she took a knife and stabbed him to death in their house in the western Afghan province of Herat.
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NATO says troops kill two Afghan boys due to mistaken identity
NATO forces accidentally shot dead two boys during an operation in Afghanistan's south, the alliance said on Saturday, in the latest in a series of incidents involving allegations of civilian deaths at the hands of international troops.
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Afghan inside attack puts US troop deaths at 2,000
An apparent insider attack by Afghan forces has killed a U.S. service member and a foreign civilian contractor with NATO, officials said Sunday. The attack -the latest in a string of strikes by Afghan allies on international troops - marked the 2,000th U.S. troop death in Afghanistan over the long-running conflict.
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Man in Afghan army uniform kills NATO soldier: NATO
A man dressed in Afghan army uniform opened fire at NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing one service member, the military said.The death brings to 20 the number of NATO soldiers killed by Afghan colleagues in at least 15 separate attacks so far this year.
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On Osama's death anniversary, Obama makes a trip to Afghanistan
President Barack Obama flexed some presidential muscle making a high-profile trip to Afghanistan on the anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US troops a year ago. In the prime-time speech, beamed back to the US, Mr Obama addressed Americans live from Bagram Air Base reminding Americans that he had wound down two unpopular wars and vowed...
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NATO reports four troop deaths in Afghanistan
NATO says that two service members have been killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while two others have died of non-battle injuries. The coalition said in statements that one service member was killed by an improvised explosive device on Wednesday and another by a similar weapon on Tuesday. NATO said the two other service members d...
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US troops return to deadly Afghan valley in east
Just months after pulling out of a remote slice of eastern Afghanistan dubbed the "Valley of Death," U.S. troops are back reinforcing their once-abandoned bases in the area - a hotbed of the insurgency and a dangerous second front in the decade-old war.
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Afghan media slams British commandos
Afghan journalists have blamed international troops for the death of a kidnapped colleague during a rescue operation.
