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Taliban Kill 13 Afghan Soldiers and Police

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters struck at Afghan security forces Sunday, storming an army recruiting center in the north that sparked a daylong gunbattle, and ambushing a bus carrying army officers in the capital - the first major attack in Kabul in months. At least 13 Afghan security forces were killed in the two ...

End of Military Gay Ban Is Pivotal Moment in History

WASHINGTON (Dec. 18) -- The Senate's 65-31 vote to end the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military was more than historic. It was a long time coming. But for the men and women whose lives and careers were touched for so many years by the ban, it was mostly personal. For Grethe Cammermeyer, the Vietnam ...

Germany to Begin Afghan Pullout in 2011

(Dec. 17) -- Germany has announced plans to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan more quickly than expected, with the pullout beginning next year and finishing by 2014. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told the parliament Thursday that the pullout will begin about a year from now -- earlier than the 2012 date ...

Illiteracy Breeds Corruption, Slows Training Among Afghan Recruits

(Dec. 16) -- Rampant illiteracy among Afghanistan's army and police recruits is fueling corruption and slowing training, according to a U.S. Army official working with the nascent security forces. "Estimates range, but we think right now when we're recruiting that only 15 percent of the soldiers and policemen that we ...

NATO Mistakenly Kills 4 Afghan Troops

(Dec. 16) -- A NATO airstrike mistakenly killed four Afghan soldiers, and a roadside bomb killed 14 Afghan civilians in a minibus on their way to a wedding in the country's west, Afghan officials said today. Word of the deaths comes just hours before the Obama administration announced findings of his review of U.S. policy ...

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12/19/10 Caught in a Taliban trap: Afghan aid fuels war and ... Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney NSW - Australia MUCH of the billions of dollars in international aid to Afghanistan is ending up in the pockets of the Taliban and fuelling the insurgency, according to a Defence counter-insurgency expert.
12/19/10 Biden says U.S. initial Afghanistan withdrawal not be ... Source: Sina U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday said the United States will start to pull its troops out of Afghanistan in 2011, and the initial withdrawal "will not be a token amount."
12/19/10 Patricia DeGennaro: A Missed Opportunity at the State ... Source: FOX - Fox 6 News - Milwaukee WI Last week's unveiling of the State Department's first-ever comprehensive strategic review -- titled the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) -- has been a long time coming.
12/19/10 154th Canadian Soldier killed in Afghanistan Source: Trentonian - Trenton ON - Canada The war in Afghanistan claimed the life of Cpl. Steve Martin Saturday, marking the 154th Canadian soldier killed in the Afghan mission.
12/19/10 South Texas Marine killed in Afghanistan Source: ABC - KTRE 9 - Lufkin TX A 21-year-old Corpus Christi-area Marine has died of combat wounds suffered in action in Afghanistan.