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Afghanistan
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
U.S. death toll in Afghanistan was 1 last month
World |
December 2, 2008
One American serviceman died in Afghanistan in November, a significant drop from earlier months that the U.S. military attributed to its campaign against insurgent leaders, operations by Afghan and Pakistani forces and the onset of winter. Read more
Friday, November 28, 2008
Opium poppy harvest falls in Afghanistan
World |
November 28, 2008
Reporting from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and The United Nations – After seven years of extraordinary expansion, Afghanistan’s harvest of poppies used to produce opium has declined by 6% from a record high in 2007, according to the annual opium survey by the United Nations released Thursday. Read more
Monday, November 24, 2008
Marines drafting plan to send more troops to Afghanistan
World |
November 24, 2008
Reporting from Marine Headquarters At Al Asad, Iraq – Marine Corps leaders are devising a plan to send thousands of additional combat troops to Afghanistan to wage aggressive warfare against the Taliban that they expect could take years. Read more
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Remembering California’s war dead
California | Local |
November 23, 2008
Since late 2001, The Times has chronicled the lives of military personnel who have died while serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Gates wants to add to U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan
World |
November 22, 2008
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that he would like to send more American forces to the war in Afghanistan before national elections scheduled for next year, and that grim depictions of the 7-year-old war are “far too pessimistic.” Read more
Thursday, November 20, 2008
U.S. kills 6 as it strikes farther into Pakistan
World |
November 20, 2008
The U.S. military apparently struck at Islamic militants outside Pakistan’s lawless tribal belt for the first time Wednesday, firing a missile that killed six suspected insurgents. Read more
Monday, November 17, 2008
Afghan militants hit truck convoys at border pass
World |
November 17, 2008
Container trucks and oil tankers bound for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan have suspended deliveries after militant attacks prompted Pakistan to block a major supply line, highlighting the vulnerability of the mountain passage. Read more
Saturday, November 15, 2008
32 Pakistanis dead in aerial attacks
World |
November 15, 2008
Suspected U.S. missiles killed 12 people Friday in northwestern Pakistan, and Pakistani troops in attack helicopters killed 20 insurgents. Read more
Monday, November 10, 2008
Journalist abducted in Kabul is released
World |
November 10, 2008
A kidnapped Canadian journalist said captors kept her blindfolded for four weeks in an underground cave so small she could barely stand. Read more
Tending an orchard of grief
California | Local |
November 10, 2008
As they emerge from a tunnel cut beneath the Berkeley Hills, Bay Area Rapid Transit trains hauling eastbound commuters home from San Francisco enter a landscape of low hills and tight valleys, shaded by oaks and pines and filled with winding blocks of well-maintained houses. Read more
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Airstrike kills 13 in Pakistan
World |
November 8, 2008
A suspected U.S. missile strike targeting a Taliban commander killed 13 people on the Pakistan side of the border with Afghanistan, officials said, indicating that America’s new general for the region was ignoring pleas by Islamabad for a halt to the strikes. Read more
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Petraeus takes over Central Command
World |
November 1, 2008
The most important task for Gen. Read more
Airstrikes kill 27 in Pakistan
World |
November 1, 2008
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Peshawar, Pakistan – A pair of missile strikes hours apart killed at least 27 people Friday near the border with Afghanistan, only days after Pakistan demanded that the United States halt an intensifying campaign of using Predator drones to hit at Taliban and Al Qaeda militants. Read more
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Study details sex-abuse rates of deployed female soldiers
Science |
October 28, 2008
One in seven female soldiers who were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and later sought healthcare for any reason reported being sexually harassed or assaulted during their military service, according to a study by Veterans Affairs researchers. Read more
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Why Afghan ‘surge’ isn’t in the works
World |
October 26, 2008
In a sign that the U.S. military is scaling back its goals in Afghanistan, senior Pentagon officials are weighing controversial proposals to send additional teams of highly trained special operations forces to narrowly target the most violent insurgent bands in the country. Read more
Soldier dies in roadside bombing in Afghanistan
California | Local |
October 26, 2008
As a timber faller, Bruno de Solenni labored through the spring and summer in groves of giant redwood, cedar and fir. Read more
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Taliban gunmen kill Western aid worker on Afghan street
World |
October 21, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed a Western woman aid worker in the Afghan capital today, fueling a sense that insurgents are increasingly encroaching on the country’s seat of government. Read more
Friday, October 17, 2008
Afghan policeman kills U.S. soldier
World |
October 17, 2008
An Afghan policeman opened fire and threw a hand grenade at a U.S. military patrol in eastern Afghanistan, killing an American soldier and raising fears that insurgents have infiltrated the police force, officials said Thursday. Read more
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Afghan town is targeted again
World |
October 16, 2008
Afghan and NATO-led forces killed 18 insurgents as dozens of Taliban fighters prepared to attack the capital of the southern province of Helmand for the second time since Saturday, police said Wednesday. Read more
