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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech to present his New Year wishes to the foreign diplomatic corps at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. France is suspending its training operations in Afghanistan and threatening to withdraw its entire force from the country early, after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French troops Friday and wounded several others. (AP Photo/Charles Platiau, pool)

France retreats from Afghanistan after 4 deaths

JAIPUR, India -- President Nicolas Sarkozy's announcement Friday that France is suspending joint combat and training programs, and considering an early withdrawal from Afghanistan highlights the Taliban's possible payoff for efforts to discourage its foes from continuing to fight a long, unpopular war.

Sarkozy said his country would review its role in the U.S.-led war after four French soldiers were killed and more than a dozen wounded by an Afghan soldier who turned on them Thursday in Kapisa province, just north of Kabul.

Pakistan Taliban leader possibly dead in US strike

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani intelligence officials say they have intercepted militant radio communications indicating the Pakistani Taliban's leader may have been killed in a recent U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan.

This video frame grab purports to depict four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.

Panetta blasts video of Marines urinating on dead

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday condemned as "utterly deplorable" a video that purports to depict four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, saying such behavior is "entirely inappropriate for members of the United States military" and those responsible will be held accountable.

Afghan policemen are seen at the scene of Tuesday's night explosion in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. Officials say three explosions in a day have killed 13 people in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

8 NATO troops die in 24 hours in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Eight members of the NATO force were killed in southern Afghanistan in a 24-hour period ending Friday, Western military officials said.

Mistakes led to NATO attack on Pakistani soldiers

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An investigation into a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month near the Afghan border has concluded that a combination of mistrust and bad maps led to the airstrikes on two Pakistani outposts, the U.S. Department of Defense and a NATO official said on Thursday.

Polish soldiers with the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard near the scene where a Polish armored military vehicle was hit by a road side bomb in Ghazni, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Five Polish soldiers were killed Wednesday when the roadside bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance and a Polish official said. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

5 Polish troops killed by bomb in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb blast killed five Polish soldiers in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, NATO and a Polish official said, in the deadliest single attack for the Polish military there.

3 NATO troops killed in eastern Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bombing killed three NATO service members Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said.

Pakistani supporters of Jammat-ud-Dawa, shout anti-U.S slogans during a rally to condemn NATO helicopters attacks on Pakistani troops, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Confusion and a communication breakdown prevented Pakistan's airforce from scrambling to defend troops on the ground during the deadly NATO bombing last weekend of two border outposts, the military said Friday, responding to rare domestic criticism of the powerful institution. Placards center reads in English, " We Do not accept American terrorism and bases in our country". (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Pakistan defends lack of action during NATO attack

ISLAMABAD -- Confusion and a communication breakdown prevented Pakistan's airforce from scrambling to defend troops on the ground during the deadly NATO bombing last weekend of two border outposts, the military said Friday, responding to rare domestic criticism of the powerful institution.

People offer funeral prayers of Saturday's NATO attack victims in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Nov 27, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistan says NATO ignored its pleas during attack

ISLAMABAD -- The NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers lasted almost two hours and continued even after commanders at the bases pleaded with coalition forces to stop, Pakistan's military claimed Monday, charges that could further inflame anger in Pakistan.

(MUHAMMED MUHEISEN/The Associated Press) Afghan security men stand near the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed.

NATO convoy bomb adds urgency to protecting Kabul

KABUL, Afghanistan — The weekend suicide bombing of a NATO convoy that killed 17 people in Kabul adds urgency to the U.S.-led coalition’s work to expand a security bubble around the Afghan capital.

(AHMAD JAMSHID/The Associated Press) US soldiers gather by bodies of victims of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed.

Afghan suicide bombing, shooting kills at least 6

KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in Kabul, killing at least four people, Afghan officials said. In the south, a man wearing an Afghan military uniform turned his weapons on NATO and Afghan troops, killing two NATO service members, the U.S.-led coalition said.

Attack on NATO convoy kills 17 in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan  -- A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an armored NATO bus Saturday on a busy thoroughfare in Kabul, killing 17 people, including a dozen Americans, in the deadliest strike against the U.S.-led coalition in the Afghan capital since the war began.

(MUSADEQ SADEQ/The Associated Press) An Afghan soldier takes position under a huge poster of Afghan President Hamid Karzai with his late brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, during a gun battle with militants in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday in a brazen attack two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Building used by CIA attacked in Afghan capital

KABUL, Afghanistan — A building used by the CIA in Kabul came under attack Sunday, U.S. and Afghan officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital.

3 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO says three service members have died in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan.

(MUSADEQ SADEQ/The Associated Press) An Afghan policeman looks at the bodies of militants, unseen, in the building which was occupied by Taliban militants in Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday Sept. 14, 2011. The Afghan government says the two-day insurgent assault in the heart of Kabul has ended and all the attackers have been killed.

NATO commander says 27 dead in Kabul attack

KABUL, Afghanistan — The top commander for NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan says the Kabul attack has left 27 dead — including Afghan police, civilians and insurgents.

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