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Afghan Provincial Police Chief Survives Suicide Attack
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- The police chief of Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province has escaped a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy. A provincial government spokesman said Mohammad Nabi Ilham was on his to way to work on the morning of June 17 when the car bomber struck on a main road in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. Ilham’s armored car was badly damaged. The ...
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11 insurgents killed in Afghan operations ISAF
Eleven insurgents had been killed in three separate operations in Afghanistan, said the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Sunday."An Afghan and coalition security force killed five extremists and wounded one other during an operation in search of a senior Taliban leader in Muhammad Aghah district, Logar province, yesterday," the ISAF said in a press release.The ...
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Why should American troops remain in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is widely regarded, even by its own people, as a puppet state, and has little hope of breaking away from US influence in the foreseeable future, there is wide-spread resentment toward foreign troops, and increasingly loud calls in the states for a withdrawal of troops. But, like or not, these two countries have been tied together irrevocably, even before the war on terror.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001, the country’s destiny has in many ways not been its own. Read more
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