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US to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peaceThe United States and the Taliban raised hopes for a negotiated peace in Afghanistan with commitments to meet this week after 12 years of bloody and costly war between American-led forces and the insurgents. The Taliban opened an More… |
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5 US soldiers killed in Afghan bomb attackFive US soldiers were killed by a bomb in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar on Saturday, a US authorities said, capping off one of the bloodiest weeks for international forces this year. The attack underscored the dang More… |
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India accuses Pakistan of killing soldiersIndia accused old enemy Pakistan of sending troops across the heavily militarised line dividing the disputed region of Kashmir on Tuesday, and said two of its soldiers were killed and one wounded in a gunfight. The body of one of More… |
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17 Turkish soldiers killed in copter crashSeventeen Turkish soldiers were killed on Saturday when their helicopter crashed in southeastern Turkey due to bad weather conditions, the area's governor said. The Sikorsky helicopter crashed on Herekol mountain, in the Perva More… |
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12 Syrian soldiers killed in Turkish firingTurkey's military has fired on Syria 87 times, killing 12 Syrian soldiers and destroying several tanks in retaliation for Syrian shells and mortars landing on Turkish territory, a Turkish newspaper reported on Saturday. Turkey More… |
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Height of trainingJapanese Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers are carried by a rope from a CH-47J Chinook helicopter (not pictured) near Mount Fuji during an annual training session at Higashifuji training field in Gotemba, west of Tokyo, August 21, 2012. REUTERS More… |
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Yemen sends soldiers to protect LNG facilitiesYemeni soldiers have been deployed to protect the gas pipeline feeding the Yemen LNG export terminal, its energy minister said on Thursday, as the country tries to shield its biggest industrial asset from further attacks. Yemen's oil and g More… |
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Rebels kill 80 Syrian soldiers at weekendSyrian rebels killed at least 80 army soldiers in the weekend, an opposition watchdog said on Monday, in a surge of attacks that followed their threat to resume fighting if President Bashar al-Assad failed to observe a UN-backed ceasefire. &n More… |
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Over 90 soldiers in Yemen suicide bombingA suicide bomber in army uniform killed more than 90 soldiers in the heart of the Yemeni capital on Monday and an Al Qaeda affiliate threatened more attacks if a US-backed campaign against militants in the front-line state did not stop. Th More… |
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Qaeda-linked group frees 73 Yemeni soldiersAn al Qaeda-linked group on Sunday freed 73 Yemeni soldiers it captured during a major assault in the south of the country last month, residents said, after mediation by religious scholars and tribal elders. More… |
