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Afghan Military Plane Crashes In Uzbekistan: Reports
An Afghan military plane has crashed in Uzbekistan, the Central Asian country's defence ministry said Monday, while neighbouring Tajikistan said over 100 Afghan soldiers had landed at one of its airports.
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US Handed Over Seven Facilities To Afghan Military: Pentagon
US has handed over as many as 7 facilities to Afghan military, Central Command said on Tuesday, asserting that America has completed more than 95 per cent of its troop withdrawal and has entered the last phase of the drawdown from war-torn country.
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Six Killed In ISIS-Claimed Blast At Kabul Military Academy In Afghanistan
At least six people were killed and 16 more wounded in a suicide blast outside a military academy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, an official said.
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5 Soldiers Killed As Taliban Terrorists Blow Up Afghanistan Army Outpost
Taliban fighters detonated explosives planted in a tunnel below an Afghan military outpost, killing five soldiers, a police official said on Wednesday.
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5 Dead In Afghan Military Helicopter Crash
A helicopter carrying security forces crashed in western Afghanistan, killing all five people on board, including the pilot, officials said on Saturday, but ruled out a terrorist attack.
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Army Photographer Snapped One Last Shot - Just Before Explosion Killed Her
Nearly four years ago, Spec. Hilda Clayton, a combat photographer in the U.S. Army, was documenting a live-fire exercise in Afghanistan when, without warning, a mortar tube accidentally exploded in front of her.
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Car Bomb Detonates Near US Military Base In Backdrop Of Jim Mattis Visit
Suspected Taliban terrorists on Monday attacked a US-operated base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost, officials said, but gave few immediate details of an assault that coincided with a visit to Kabul by US Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
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'More Than 50' Afghan Soldiers Killed In Military Base Attack, Says US
Dozens of Afghan soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday when Taliban gunmen disguised in Afghan army uniform talked their way past checkpoints and attacked a military base, officials said.
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After Barack Obama's Green Light, Afghan Forces On The Offensive
After two years of heavy casualties, the Afghan military is trying to retake the initiative in the war against militants with a new offensive against ISIS group loyalists, an assault that will see American troops back on the battlefield working more closely with Afghan soldiers.
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2 Romanian Soldiers Killed In Afghan 'Insider Attack'
Gunmen wearing Afghan military uniforms shot dead two Romanian soldiers in the country's south on Saturday, officials said, in the first insider attack on foreign troops since the Taliban launched their spring offensive last month.
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US Homeland Security Searching for 2 Afghan Military Trainees
The U.S. government is still searching for two Afghan aircraft maintenance students who went missing this week while receiving training at a U.S. Air Force base in Georgia, and will revoke the men's visas, officials said on Friday.
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Afghanistan Harnesses Anti-Taliban Militias as Insurgency Spreads
The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the "wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk.
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Multiple Attacks Kill 20 in Afghanistan as NATO Deadline Looms
Taliban insurgents killed at least 20 people in a series of gun and suicide attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining worsening security as US-led NATO forces end their combat mission in the country.
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Afghan Army Under Pressure After Killing of US General
The killing of a US general by an Afghan soldier in the latest "insider attack" will fuel mutual mistrust, but training the Afghan military to take on the Taliban is crucial to Washington's exit strategy.
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US Lawmakers Aim to Extend Afghan Interpreter Visa Programme
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill to allow more time for the thousands of Afghans who worked for the American military and government as interpreters and in other high-risk jobs to immigrate to the United States.
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Afghan Military Plane Crashes In Uzbekistan: Reports
An Afghan military plane has crashed in Uzbekistan, the Central Asian country's defence ministry said Monday, while neighbouring Tajikistan said over 100 Afghan soldiers had landed at one of its airports.
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US Handed Over Seven Facilities To Afghan Military: Pentagon
US has handed over as many as 7 facilities to Afghan military, Central Command said on Tuesday, asserting that America has completed more than 95 per cent of its troop withdrawal and has entered the last phase of the drawdown from war-torn country.
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Six Killed In ISIS-Claimed Blast At Kabul Military Academy In Afghanistan
At least six people were killed and 16 more wounded in a suicide blast outside a military academy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, an official said.
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5 Soldiers Killed As Taliban Terrorists Blow Up Afghanistan Army Outpost
Taliban fighters detonated explosives planted in a tunnel below an Afghan military outpost, killing five soldiers, a police official said on Wednesday.
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5 Dead In Afghan Military Helicopter Crash
A helicopter carrying security forces crashed in western Afghanistan, killing all five people on board, including the pilot, officials said on Saturday, but ruled out a terrorist attack.
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Army Photographer Snapped One Last Shot - Just Before Explosion Killed Her
Nearly four years ago, Spec. Hilda Clayton, a combat photographer in the U.S. Army, was documenting a live-fire exercise in Afghanistan when, without warning, a mortar tube accidentally exploded in front of her.
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Car Bomb Detonates Near US Military Base In Backdrop Of Jim Mattis Visit
Suspected Taliban terrorists on Monday attacked a US-operated base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost, officials said, but gave few immediate details of an assault that coincided with a visit to Kabul by US Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
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'More Than 50' Afghan Soldiers Killed In Military Base Attack, Says US
Dozens of Afghan soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday when Taliban gunmen disguised in Afghan army uniform talked their way past checkpoints and attacked a military base, officials said.
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After Barack Obama's Green Light, Afghan Forces On The Offensive
After two years of heavy casualties, the Afghan military is trying to retake the initiative in the war against militants with a new offensive against ISIS group loyalists, an assault that will see American troops back on the battlefield working more closely with Afghan soldiers.
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2 Romanian Soldiers Killed In Afghan 'Insider Attack'
Gunmen wearing Afghan military uniforms shot dead two Romanian soldiers in the country's south on Saturday, officials said, in the first insider attack on foreign troops since the Taliban launched their spring offensive last month.
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US Homeland Security Searching for 2 Afghan Military Trainees
The U.S. government is still searching for two Afghan aircraft maintenance students who went missing this week while receiving training at a U.S. Air Force base in Georgia, and will revoke the men's visas, officials said on Friday.
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Afghanistan Harnesses Anti-Taliban Militias as Insurgency Spreads
The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the "wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk.
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Multiple Attacks Kill 20 in Afghanistan as NATO Deadline Looms
Taliban insurgents killed at least 20 people in a series of gun and suicide attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining worsening security as US-led NATO forces end their combat mission in the country.
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Afghan Army Under Pressure After Killing of US General
The killing of a US general by an Afghan soldier in the latest "insider attack" will fuel mutual mistrust, but training the Afghan military to take on the Taliban is crucial to Washington's exit strategy.
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US Lawmakers Aim to Extend Afghan Interpreter Visa Programme
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill to allow more time for the thousands of Afghans who worked for the American military and government as interpreters and in other high-risk jobs to immigrate to the United States.
