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Weeks After Fleeing Home, Afghans Try To Pick Up Pieces At US Military Base
There's a sense that life's events, in all of their complexity, are simply unfolding for the over 9,300 Afghan evacuees who have come to call this US military base in New Jersey home over the past month or so -- and who may be here for some time.
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US To Hand Over Bagram Air Base To Afghan Forces In 20 Days: Officials
The US military will hand over its main Bagram Air Base to Afghan forces in about 20 days, an official said Tuesday, as Washington carries out its final withdrawal after nearly two decades of war.
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US Pulls Out Of Major Kandahar Base In Afghanistan: Army
The United States has completed its withdrawal from Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan, once the second largest military base in the country for US forces, officials said Friday.
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Afghan Military Base Stormed, 27 Security Personnel Killed
At least 27 security personnel were killed when a military base was stormed in Afghanistan on Thursday, in one of the biggest attacks since a violence reduction agreement was signed between the United States and the Taliban last month.
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Blast Outside Main US Base In Afghanistan, 5 Injured
A suicide bomber in Afghanistan detonated explosives on Wednesday outside the United States' main military base of Bagram in an attack that wounded five people, Afghan and NATO officials said.
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US To Pull Troops From 5 Bases In Afghanistan Under Proposed Taliban Deal
The US military is set to pull troops from five Afghan bases under a proposed deal with the Taliban, the US envoy leading talks with the insurgents said Monday, in some of the first confirmed details of a much-anticipated accord.
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US Citizen Sentenced To 45 Years For Role In al Qaeda Bomb Attack
A U.S. citizen was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Tuesday for supporting the militant group al Qaeda and helping to prepare a 2009 car bomb attack on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, less than the life sentence sought by prosecutors
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US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis Tells Pakistan To Redouble Efforts Against Terrorists
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday met Pakistan's civilian and military leaders and urged them "redouble" their efforts to rein in terrorists accused of using the country as a base to carry out attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan
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Gunmen Kill 8 Afghan Guards At Largest US Military Base
Gunmen have killed eight Afghan guards working at the largest American base in Afghanistan, officials said today, as the US appears set to boost its troop presence in the country.
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7 US Soldiers Wounded In 'Insider Attack' In Afghanistan
Seven American troops were wounded Saturday in an insider attack by an Afghan soldier at a military base, as the US appears set to boost its troop presence in the country.
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Car Bomb Detonates Near US Military Base In Backdrop Of Jim Mattis Visit
Suspected Taliban terrorists on Monday attacked a US-operated base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost, officials said, but gave few immediate details of an assault that coincided with a visit to Kabul by US Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
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Afghan Taliban's Brazen Attack Eclipses Donald Trump's 'Mother Of All Bombs'
Eight days after the US military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected ISIS terrorists in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban terrorists breached an army base in the north of the country and killed scores of local soldiers.
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'Mother Of All Bombs': US Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb On ISIS Caves In Afghanistan
The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday against a series of caves used by ISIS, the military said. Also known as the "mother of all bombs," the GBU-43 is a 21,600 pound (9,797 kg) GPS-guided munition and was first tested in March 2003, just days bef...
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Four Americans Killed In US Base Attack In Afghanistan
Four Americans were killed on Saturday in a suicide bombing inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said, in a major breach of security.
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4 Killed, 14 Wounded In Explosion At Largest US Base In Afghanistan: NATO
At least four people were killed and 14 others wounded in an explosion that struck the largest US military base in Afghanistan early Saturday, NATO said, without specifying the victims' nationalities.
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Weeks After Fleeing Home, Afghans Try To Pick Up Pieces At US Military Base
There's a sense that life's events, in all of their complexity, are simply unfolding for the over 9,300 Afghan evacuees who have come to call this US military base in New Jersey home over the past month or so -- and who may be here for some time.
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US To Hand Over Bagram Air Base To Afghan Forces In 20 Days: Officials
The US military will hand over its main Bagram Air Base to Afghan forces in about 20 days, an official said Tuesday, as Washington carries out its final withdrawal after nearly two decades of war.
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US Pulls Out Of Major Kandahar Base In Afghanistan: Army
The United States has completed its withdrawal from Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan, once the second largest military base in the country for US forces, officials said Friday.
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Afghan Military Base Stormed, 27 Security Personnel Killed
At least 27 security personnel were killed when a military base was stormed in Afghanistan on Thursday, in one of the biggest attacks since a violence reduction agreement was signed between the United States and the Taliban last month.
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Blast Outside Main US Base In Afghanistan, 5 Injured
A suicide bomber in Afghanistan detonated explosives on Wednesday outside the United States' main military base of Bagram in an attack that wounded five people, Afghan and NATO officials said.
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US To Pull Troops From 5 Bases In Afghanistan Under Proposed Taliban Deal
The US military is set to pull troops from five Afghan bases under a proposed deal with the Taliban, the US envoy leading talks with the insurgents said Monday, in some of the first confirmed details of a much-anticipated accord.
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US Citizen Sentenced To 45 Years For Role In al Qaeda Bomb Attack
A U.S. citizen was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Tuesday for supporting the militant group al Qaeda and helping to prepare a 2009 car bomb attack on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, less than the life sentence sought by prosecutors
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US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis Tells Pakistan To Redouble Efforts Against Terrorists
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday met Pakistan's civilian and military leaders and urged them "redouble" their efforts to rein in terrorists accused of using the country as a base to carry out attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan
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Gunmen Kill 8 Afghan Guards At Largest US Military Base
Gunmen have killed eight Afghan guards working at the largest American base in Afghanistan, officials said today, as the US appears set to boost its troop presence in the country.
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7 US Soldiers Wounded In 'Insider Attack' In Afghanistan
Seven American troops were wounded Saturday in an insider attack by an Afghan soldier at a military base, as the US appears set to boost its troop presence in the country.
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Car Bomb Detonates Near US Military Base In Backdrop Of Jim Mattis Visit
Suspected Taliban terrorists on Monday attacked a US-operated base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost, officials said, but gave few immediate details of an assault that coincided with a visit to Kabul by US Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
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Afghan Taliban's Brazen Attack Eclipses Donald Trump's 'Mother Of All Bombs'
Eight days after the US military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected ISIS terrorists in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban terrorists breached an army base in the north of the country and killed scores of local soldiers.
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'Mother Of All Bombs': US Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb On ISIS Caves In Afghanistan
The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday against a series of caves used by ISIS, the military said. Also known as the "mother of all bombs," the GBU-43 is a 21,600 pound (9,797 kg) GPS-guided munition and was first tested in March 2003, just days bef...
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Four Americans Killed In US Base Attack In Afghanistan
Four Americans were killed on Saturday in a suicide bombing inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said, in a major breach of security.
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4 Killed, 14 Wounded In Explosion At Largest US Base In Afghanistan: NATO
At least four people were killed and 14 others wounded in an explosion that struck the largest US military base in Afghanistan early Saturday, NATO said, without specifying the victims' nationalities.
