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RAW VIDEO: Dash-cam sheds light on plane crash that killed 5 from Michigan
New video seems to confirm that a civilian cargo plane that crashed at Bagram Air Field Monday, killing all seven people aboard, was NOT taken down by enemy action. Five of seven people killed in the crash are from Michigan. The Taliban quickly...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Boeing Co., Hamid Karzai, Transportation Industry, National Transportation Safety Board
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US may leave no troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to contain al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces....
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, White House, Politics, Armed Forces, International Military Interventions
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An insider attack: Trust cost 2 lives, including SW Mich. soldier
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a sneak attack, but not by the enemy they feared. U.S. Army Capts. Joshua Lawrence and Drew Russell were inside a small command post on an Afghan army base, wrapping up a long day of coordinating the safe arrival of nearly...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Injuries and Wounds, Wars and Interventions, Weaponry, Prosecution
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Army: no bullet wound found in soldier Skype death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Army investigators said Monday they found no bullet wound nor evidence of foul play in the death of a soldier in Afghanistan who died during a Skype video chat with his wife. Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark collapsed while speaking to his...
Tags: U.S. Army, Afghanistan, Washington, DC, Skype
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Dog injured in Afghanistan finds new life in Indiana
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A white, mixed-breed dog utters a warning bark at a beige SUV as it pulls up alongside a barn on Mount Gilead Road, a few miles east of Bloomington. The van stops, and a 30-year-old man climbs out. "Hey, buddy," the man...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy, Afghanistan, Pakistan, U.S. Military
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US Army: Brigadier general, a Notre Dame grad, has died in Afghanistan
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Army says a 49-year-old brigadier general has died in Afghanistan. A statement posted on the Fort Hood website says Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner died Friday in Kabul of apparent natural causes. Hildner has...Tags: U.S. Army, Afghanistan, NATO, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Fort Hood (military base)
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Rockets fired at U.S. embassy in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Police say insurgents are firing rockets at the U.S. Embassy as gunbattles shake downtown Kabul and its diplomatic quarter. Police official Mohammed Zahir says a large group of gunmen are firing from positions in a tall...Tags: U.S. Embassy, House Building
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NATO, Afghan army kill at least 13 Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan and NATO officials say at least 13 insurgents have been killed in eastern Afghanistan after gunbattles and a coalition airstrike against a building occupied by Taliban fighters. Coalition spokesman Capt. Justin...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Elections, Afghanistan, NATO
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Ind. Marine reunited with dog from Afghan war zone
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana Marine who nursed an emaciated puppy back to health while serving in Afghanistan has been reunited with the dog he left behind in the war-torn nation. WISH-TV reports that a nonprofit helped get the canine from...Tags: Indianapolis, Indiana
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Afghanistan's Karzai gives India military equipment "wish list"
ReutersBy Ross Colvin NEW DELHI, May 22 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he had given a "wish list" of military equipment to India during a visit this week, presenting a conundrum for New Delhi as it weighs whether arming the Afghan...Tags: Government, New Delhi (India), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Wars and Interventions
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Afghan security concerns to ease after 2014, Karzai says
NEW DELHI -- Afghan security after the departure of foreign combat troops in 2014 will become easier because of the ill-advised, misdirected and often corrupt ways NATO and its contractors have pursued the "war on terror," Afghan President Hamid Karzai...
Tags: Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, New Delhi (India), Politics, Elections
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Khaled Hosseini discusses novel, "And the Mountains Echoed," at NY reading; book spans decades
AP National WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Khaled Hosseini, whose novels have sold more than 38 million copies worldwide, knows what a lucky man he is. "What separates me from someone in the streets of Kabul is such a thin line," says the Afghan-American author of "The...Tags: Authors, Barnes & Noble, George Saunders, Afghanistan, Manhattan (New York City)
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