Afghan Killings
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Five Killed In Attack On UN Convoy In Kabul
Five Afghan security personnel were killed Thursday when a United Nations convoy they were escorting came under attack in Kabul province, the UN mission said, in the latest violence to rock the country.
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US soldier to be charged with 17 Afghan murders
A US soldier will be charged with 17 counts of murder stemming from the killings of civilians in a rampage in southern Afghanistan, a US official said on Thursday.
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Suspect in Afghan shootings flown to base in US
The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers was en route on Friday to a maximum security detention facility at a US military base in Kansas, his lawyer said.
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'Drunk' US soldier in Afghan massacre was stressed and 'snapped': Report
The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians had been drinking at the time of the shootings and was suffering stress linked to his fourth combat deployment, a report said late on Thursday.
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Taliban says it's suspending talks with US
The Taliban militant group says it is suspending talks with the United States. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement on Thursday that the United States kept changing the terms of the negotiations. Mujahid says that the Taliban only wanted to discuss prisoner transfers and the establishment of a political office in Qatar, but US ne...
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No change in Afghan strategy: Hillary Clinton
The Obama administration said Monday the war strategy in Afghanistan remains intact despite the mass killing of Afghan civilians on Sunday, allegedly by an American soldier. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the episode "inexplicable" but insisted it won't force the U.S. to change course.
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Obama calls Karzai after US soldier goes on rampage to kill 16 civilians in Afghanistan
Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan early on Sunday, igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility, Afghan and American officials s
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Five Killed In Attack On UN Convoy In Kabul
Five Afghan security personnel were killed Thursday when a United Nations convoy they were escorting came under attack in Kabul province, the UN mission said, in the latest violence to rock the country.
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US soldier to be charged with 17 Afghan murders
A US soldier will be charged with 17 counts of murder stemming from the killings of civilians in a rampage in southern Afghanistan, a US official said on Thursday.
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Suspect in Afghan shootings flown to base in US
The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers was en route on Friday to a maximum security detention facility at a US military base in Kansas, his lawyer said.
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'Drunk' US soldier in Afghan massacre was stressed and 'snapped': Report
The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians had been drinking at the time of the shootings and was suffering stress linked to his fourth combat deployment, a report said late on Thursday.
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Taliban says it's suspending talks with US
The Taliban militant group says it is suspending talks with the United States. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement on Thursday that the United States kept changing the terms of the negotiations. Mujahid says that the Taliban only wanted to discuss prisoner transfers and the establishment of a political office in Qatar, but US ne...
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No change in Afghan strategy: Hillary Clinton
The Obama administration said Monday the war strategy in Afghanistan remains intact despite the mass killing of Afghan civilians on Sunday, allegedly by an American soldier. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the episode "inexplicable" but insisted it won't force the U.S. to change course.
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Obama calls Karzai after US soldier goes on rampage to kill 16 civilians in Afghanistan
Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan early on Sunday, igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility, Afghan and American officials s
