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NATO Short Hundreds of Trainers for Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan -- More nations are pledging support, yet NATO still faces a shortage of 740 trainers needed to get Afghan soldiers and policemen ready to take the lead in securing their nation, the coalition's top training official says. Needed most are 290 police trainers, including those to work in new training...

US Wobbles on 2011 Date for Afghan Withdrawal

(Nov. 11) -- U.S. troops could be looking at four more years in Afghanistan. That's according to top Obama administration officials, who are now talking more about the end of 2014 as the date when Afghans will take charge of their own security rather than the summer 2011 for the start of the U.S. pullout. The...

EA Defends Taliban Name Change in 'Medal of Honor'

(Oct. 4) -- In the weeks leading up to EA's decision to finally yank a controversial feature of its new "Medal of Honor" game that would have allowed the player to control the Taliban in multiplayer mode, publisher Electronic Arts vehemently defended its position as a crucial issue of free speech and its game as a piece of...

Bodies From Afghan Chopper Crash Arrive in US

(Sept. 23) -- The bodies of nine American soldiers and sailors killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan two days ago have arrived home to a Delaware air base. Tuesday's crash in southern Afghanistan's Zabul province was the deadliest for coalition forces in nearly a year. NATO said it's investigating the cause, but...

US Troops Allegedly Took Afghan Fingers as Souvenirs

(Sept. 9) -- In one of the most grisly war crimes investigations to date, 12 American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly murdered Afghan civilians for sport and collected bits of their fingers as war souvenirs. Five of the soldiers have been charged with killing three Afghan civilians in...

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05/14/12 British dead and wounded in Afghanistan, month by month Source: The Guardian - London - UK Two British soldiers have been killed in an indirect fire attack the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has reported.
03/29/12 Afghanistan:UK troops will keep dying until late 2014 Source: Voice of Russia The British command plans to withdraw the bulk of British troops from Afghanistan only by September 2014, The Daily Telegraph reports.
01/27/12 Karzai Meets Sarkozy After France Threatens Afghan... Source: Voice of America (VOA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets Friday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday, a week after the French leader threatened to pull his troops out of Afghanistan early.
12/16/10 Daily Number: 35% - Far Fewer Democrats Support... Source: Pew Research Center In the past six months, the American public has not changed its assessment of the war in Afghanistan -- roughly half (47%) still say the military effort is going well -- but there has been a significant decline in the percentage saying the U.S. will achieve its goals in that country.