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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Afghanistan News.Net http://www.afghanistannews.net/ en-us Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:32:58 -0400 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:32:58 -0400 30 Another US serviceman has been found dead in a remote area of Afghanistan. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/665990 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:48 -0400 Afghanistan News.Net http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/665990 The UN announced Friday it has removed five former senior members of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan from its sanctions blacklist. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666446 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:30:02 -0400 IANS http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666446 Six NATO-led soldiers were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while 15 Afghan civilians died in violence elsewhere in the country, officials said Friday. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666434 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:20:02 -0400 IANS http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666434 July was the deadliest month for US troops in Afghanistan since the war there started nearly nine years ago, CNN reported Friday. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666398 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:10:01 -0400 IANS http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666398 Pakistanis consider India a greater threat than Taliban and Al Qaeda with a quarter viewing Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for 2008 Mumbai attacks, favourably, according to a new study. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666276 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:50:08 -0400 IANS http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666276 British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Adam Thomson, is likely to be summoned to the Foreign Office amidst a growing diplomatic spat over British Prime Minister David Cameron's remarks that Pakistan is promoting the 'export of terror' in Afghanistan and around the world. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666236 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:10 -0400 ANI http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666236 The Taliban has warned that it is hunting down Afghans whose names might appear on the leaked Afghanistan war logs on grounds that they were informers for the Nato-led coalition. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666235 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:09 -0400 ANI http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666235 United States has asked for FBI's help to inquiry into the leaking of more than 90,000 classified military records on the Afghan war by 'WikiLeaks' website, and accused its founder Julian Assange of having "blood ... on his hands." http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666203 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:20:18 -0400 ANI http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666203 The Taliban is exploiting people in the neglected northern Afghan province of Baghlan, which according to reports, is slipping away from government control. http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666097 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:20:21 -0400 ANI http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666097 The Pakistan Foreign Office has reacted sharply to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's suggestion of a NATO operation inside Pakistan, saying that the comments were "incomprehensible". http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666046 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:30:04 -0400 ANI http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/666046 The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conf... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37382306&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:26:41 -0400 Star-Telegram http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37382306&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A TALIBAN spokesman announced Thursday that the group is poring over the tens of thousands of classified military documents published by WikiLeaks this week, looking for the names of pro-American Afgh... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37382225&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:21:58 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37382225&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A pilotless plane of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) went down in a Taliban stronghold in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan on Wednesday, the alliance said in a state... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37382307&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:21:24 -0400 The Nation http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37382307&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A shocking picture of an 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose was hacked off after she fled an abusive husband has stirred up the long-running controversy over whether Nato forces should negotiate with... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37378735&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:38:31 -0400 The Independent http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37378735&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The first wave of air assaults began at 2.38am, the helicopters flying low and fast into the swaying poppy fields surrounding the dark silhouettes of the walled compounds. This was Operation Tor Sheza... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37378739&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:38:09 -0400 The Independent http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37378739&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c At least eight members of the Afghan military wanted by U.S. authorities after fleeing a Texas air force base have attained permanent resident status in Canada or are awaiting decisions on refugee cla... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379453&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:29:43 -0400 National Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379453&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment are trying to clear the Taliban from an important stronghold in the Nad Ali district. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379751&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:27:00 -0400 BBC http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379751&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The first wave of air assaults began at 2.38am, the helicopters flying low and fast into the swaying poppy fields surrounding the dark silhouettes of the walled compounds. This was Operation Tor Sheza... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379746&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:24:21 -0400 The Independent http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379746&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A shocking picture of an 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose was hacked off after she fled an abusive husband has stirred up the long-running controversy over whether Nato forces should negotiate with... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379589&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:24:07 -0400 The Independent http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379589&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c British forces have made progress in a fresh assault on the Taliban in southern Afghanistan and are holding two compounds. Operation Tor Shezada, or Black Prince, a bid to squeeze insurgents out of c... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379748&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:19:50 -0400 ITN http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379748&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States military has recovered the body of the second of two American sailors abducted last week in a dangerous region south of Kabul, but it was not clear precise... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379502&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:15:28 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37379502&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghanistan have begun seeping away. Girls’ schools are closing; working women are threatened; advocates are attacked; and terrified families are increasingly confining their daughters to home. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37375486&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:54:54 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37375486&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai late on Thursday urged his Western allies to destroy Islamist militant sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan after thousands of secret US files were leaked. “T... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376301&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:35:36 -0400 The Daily Star http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376301&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c ALL of the frustration and futility of U.S. military and political efforts at the ground level in Afghanistan were pointedly revealed by thousands of leaked documents. President Obama has an extraord... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376386&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:31:47 -0400 The Seattle Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376386&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A criminal investigation into the leak of tens of thousands of secret Afghanistan war logs could reach beyond the military, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday, and he did not rule out that ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37375527&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:24:03 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37375527&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The Taliban have provided Canada with a foretaste of the rapturous welcome that it can expect from insurgents when its troops quit Kandahar next summer, congratulati... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376389&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:16:09 -0400 Canada.com http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376389&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The Taliban have provided Canada with a foretaste of the rapturous welcome that it can expect from insurgents when its troops quit Kandahar next summer, congratulati... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376234&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:10:35 -0400 National Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376234&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c British forces have made progress in a fresh assault on the Taliban in southern Afghanistan and are holding two compounds. Operation Tor Shezada, or Black Prince, a bid to squeeze insurgents out of c... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376537&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:01:27 -0400 ITN http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376537&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghanistan have begun seeping away. Girls’ schools are closing; working women are threatened; advocates are attacked; and terrified families are increasingly confining their daughters to home. ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376312&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:56:46 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376312&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The Taliban have provided Canada with a foretaste of the rapturous welcome that it can expect from insurgents when its troops quit Kandahar next summer, congratulati... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376398&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:43:56 -0400 Canada.com http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376398&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghanistan elections planned for September aren't supposed to include parliamentary candidates with ties to militias. Problem is, many of those disqualified aren't actually involved with militias. 'T... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376532&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:15:46 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376532&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c In the Afghanistan war, it's quantity vs. quality: The USAID battle for hearts and minds is being lost just as President Obama's 'civilian surge' prepares to more than double annual assistance to $5 b... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376531&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:15:42 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37376531&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c New questions are being raised about U.S. domestic support for the war in Afghanistan in the wake of leaked secret documents about the war and a recent congressional vote on funding for the conflict. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373107&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:47:31 -0400 VOA http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373107&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c New questions are being raised about U.S. domestic support for the war in Afghanistan in the wake of leaked secret documents about the war and a recent congressional vote on funding for the conflict. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373260&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:45:28 -0400 VOA http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373260&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL: Afghan police fired shots on Friday to disperse hundreds of people protesting the deaths of civilians in an accident involving a U.S. embassy vehicle, police said.A police official at the scene... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37372565&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:44:11 -0400 Times of Oman http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37372565&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KANDAHAR (Agencies): A motorcycle bomb targeting a candidate in Afghanistan’s upcoming parliamentary election killed a woman and a child Friday in the city of Kandahar, police said. The explosives-... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373377&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:40:50 -0400 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373377&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c SAIDON KALACHEH (Reuters): Defeating insurgents in Afghanistan’s volatile Arghandab Valley would take time, but there were now enough US and Afghan troops to defeat the Taliban, the area’s US comm... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373378&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:40:49 -0400 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373378&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL (Agencies): Afghan National Security Adviser Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta has called for targeting militant safe havens across the border, where the government's opponents were being trained and fund... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373379&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:40:48 -0400 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373379&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KUNDUZ (AIP): Taliban killed a commander of pro-government tribal militia in northern Badakhshan province, they claimed Friday. The commander of tribal militia, Abdul Khabir was killed in Khumlak Vil... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373380&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:40:48 -0400 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373380&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c WASHINGTON (News-wire): The Taliban has accused US General David Petraeus of killing more civilians and drawing more attacks on US and Nato troops since he took command in Afghanistan, the SITE monito... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373381&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:40:47 -0400 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373381&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c DUSHANBE (Agencies): Tajikistan is expecting a decline in the volume of drugs trafficked from Afghanistan this year due to better policing and a fungus that has attacked the opium poppy crop, accordin... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373382&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:40:45 -0400 The Frontier Post http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373382&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council has dropped five prominent Taliban members from its sanctions blacklist, backing Afghan president Hamid Karzai's ambitious national reconciliation plan to br... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373375&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:02:26 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373375&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c British soldiers on patrol 20 miles outside of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, Afghanistan. There has been a big rise in the number of troops losing limbs due to IEDs Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373023&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:26:26 -0400 The Guardian http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373023&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Julian Assange , have come under attack from US officials and their allies for potentially endangering informants and troops in Afghanistan by posting the texts of thousands of leaked war logs.The US ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373027&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:26:08 -0400 The Guardian http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373027&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Security has been stepped up in the Afghan capital Kabul following a fatal car crash believed to have involved two US embassy vehicles. Four Afghans were killed in the accident, according to the city... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373058&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:22:17 -0400 Euro News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373058&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Third Battalion, First Marines at home, and abroad in Afghanistan. Two remarkable statistics: out of all the people arrested by the local police and convicted of any crime in Garmsir in southern Afgha... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37372079&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:17:49 -0400 CBS News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37372079&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Immaculately attired in his khaki uniform and pistol belt, Colonel Nauman Saeed brims with the self-assurance – some might say swagger – of a man who has fought Pakistan’s militants and won.Two ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373288&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:41:01 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37373288&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c UN Reviewing Terrorism Blacklist United Nations officials say five members of the Taliban have been taken off a U.N. sanctions blacklist, a move sought by the Afghan government to promote reconciliati... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37369539&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:22:56 -0400 VOA http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37369539&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned that the leak of tens of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan could have potentially dangerous consequences for U.S. forces ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366265&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:53:57 -0400 Spero News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366265&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Bob Dudley will outline the company's long-term plans to aid Gulf recovery efforts Friday and announce the addition of former FEMA chief James Lee Witt as a new leader in the oil spill response effort... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366269&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:47:15 -0400 PBS http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366269&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c At present, the Bulgarian contingents in Afghanistan, numbering 527 troops, are based in three locations – Kabul, Kandahar and Herat. Photo by EPA/BGNES http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366272&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:46:02 -0400 Novinite http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366272&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c PTI/ZeeTV reports. Twenty-four cases were detected between January and June this year, compared to 151 in the corresponding 2009 period, and 317 in January-June 2008 (7/29). According to http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37365756&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:41:44 -0400 Medical News Today http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37365756&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c hearing held by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on child marriage. The piece includes comments by representatives from the Department of State, UNICEF, CARE and the International Center for Res... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37365052&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:41:38 -0400 Medical News Today http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37365052&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c military death toll for July to at least 63 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly nine-year-old war.The three died in two blasts in southern Afg... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37365875&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:44:31 -0400 The Guardian http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37365875&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A U.S. Army honor guard team holds American flags to be given to family members at the burial service for Staff Sgt. Edwardo Loredo, at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday. http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366271&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:38:51 -0400 Chicago Tribune http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366271&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL, Afghanistan — The discovery of the body of a second U.S. sailor who vanished in Afghanistan last week only deepened the mystery of the men's disappearance nearly 60 miles from their base ... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366259&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:11 -0400 Deseret News http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366259&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Marco, 7, the son of Italian soldier Mauro Gigli who was killed in Herat province in Afghanistan, is carried by his brother next to their father's coffin at Ciampino airport in Rome July 30, 2010. Two... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366270&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:59:48 -0400 People's Daily http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37366270&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Imagine being taken captive by the Taliban. That's what happened to Jere Van Dyk, a journalist and author from Vancouver, Washington. He survived 45 days in a mud cell, and has now written a book abou... http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37363079&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:23:26 -0400 KATU 2 http://feeds.afghanistannews.net/?rid=37363079&cat=6e1d5c8e1f98f17c