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Panetta blasts video of Marines urinating on dead

Pauline Jelinek, Robert Burns The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 10:39am

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.

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An Afghan man is comforted by relatives outside of a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshippers marking a holy day Tuesday in the Afghan capital as scores of people were killed in an unprecedented wave of violence against the minority Islamic sect in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Suicide attacks on Afghan Shiites kill 60

Amir Shah, Rahim Faiez The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 10:47am

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshippers at a mosque in Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least 55 people in the deadliest of two attacks on a Shiite holy day -- the first major sectarian assaults since the fall of the Taliban a decade ago.

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Marines to wind down Afghan combat in 2012

Robert Burns The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 6:27pm

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines will march out of Afghanistan by the thousands next year, winding down combat in the Taliban heartland and testing the U.S. view that Afghan forces are capable of leading the fight against a battered but not yet beaten insurgency in the country’s southwestern reaches, American military officers say.

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(FAREED KHAN/The Associated Press) Troops of Pakistani para military force stand guard during a crack down operation against suspect militants, criminals and suspected target killers in the country’s biggest city of Karachi, Pakistan on Friday, Nov 18, 2011.

Pakistani Taliban, government hold initial talks

Ishtiaq Mahsud The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 21, 2011 - 8:56am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Government intermediaries have held talks with the Pakistani Taliban in recent months, exploring ways to jump-start peace negotiations, intelligence officials and a senior militant commander said.

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(MOHAMMAD JAVED/The Associated Press) In this Dec. 27, 2007 file photo, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrives to address to her last public rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Bhutto was assassinated with 20 others in a suicide attack as she left the rally. A Pakistani government prosecutor said Saturday Nov. 5, 2011, a court has indicted seven men on charges of killing country’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto,

Pakistan indicts 2 more in Bhutto’s assassination

Asif Shahzad The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 4:01pm

ISLAMABAD — Two police officers were indicted Saturday in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and will face trial along with five members of the Pakistani Taliban, a state prosecutor said.

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(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

Deb Riechmann The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 4:33pm

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.

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(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

Amir Shah The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 29, 2011 - 5:25pm

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.

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Attack on NATO convoy kills 17 in Afghanistan

Amir Shah, Deb Riechmann The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 29, 2011 - 4:21pm

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.

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Pakistan asks Taliban to give up arms before talks

Abdul Sattar The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 7:38am

QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Interior Minister says that the Taliban must surrender their arms if they wish to enter peace talks with the government.

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(KAMRAN JEBREILI/The Associated Press) In this Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 file photo, Afghan President Hamid Karzai reacts during a press conference honoring former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani who was killed two days before in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who for years pushed for reconciliation with the Taliban, now says attempts to negotiate with the insurgent movement are futile and efforts at dialogue should focus instead on neighboring Pakistan. The Afghan leader explained in a videotaped speech released by his office Saturday Oct. 1, 2011 that he changed his views after a suicide bomber, claiming to be a peace emissary from the insurgents, killed former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani at his home on Sept. 20. Rabbani was leading Karzai’s effort to broker peace with the Taliban.

Afghan leader gives up trying to talk to Taliban

Deb Riechmann The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 4:29pm

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai has given up trying to talk to the Taliban, saying in a video released Saturday that Pakistan holds the only key to making peace with insurgents and must do more to support a political resolution to the war.

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Afghan president says talks with Taliban useless

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 8:32am

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says trying to talk peace with insurgents is futile and that neighboring Pakistan -- not the Taliban -- needs to be the other party in the peace talks.

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(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

Deb Riechmann The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 4:55pm

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.

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Pakistan warns of plot to free bin Laden's wives

Ashraf Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 8:40am

KARACHI -- Pakistan is warning that the Taliban are plotting to secure the freedom of Osama bin Laden's wives and children by kidnapping a high-ranking government official and then offering to exchange him or her for the slain terror chief's family.

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Pakistani Taliban claim holding 30 abducted boys

Anwarullah Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 7:56am

KHAR, Pakistan -- The Pakistani Taliban said Saturday they are holding around 30 Pakistani boys who were abducted three days ago after being lured across the border into Afghanistan.

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Afghan security forces carry a wounded man at the site of a suicide attack outside the British Council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. Two suicide bombers attacked the British compound in the Afghan capital on Friday.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Afghan militants kill 8 in raid on British compound

Alex Rodriguez, Hashmat Baktash Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, August 19, 2011 - 9:40am

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants used suicide bombers, automatic rifle fire and rocket grenades to launch an hours-long commando-style raid on a British compound in Kabul on Friday that killed at least eight people, a brazen attack that underscored militants' ability to unleash large-scale assaults even in the heavily secured Afghan capital.

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