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From the Associated Press: Eight American troops died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including a car bombing and a gunfight outside a police compound in Kandahar, officials said Wednesday as the Taliban push back against a coalition effort to secure the volatile region.

A key element of the new counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan is a redoubled effort to reduce civilian casualties. U.S.-led coalition soldiers abide by some of the strictest rules of engagement in history and increasingly rely on automated technology to reduce civilian deaths. But a new UN report says civilian casualties are, in fact, increasing. The […]

Afghanistan’s president is setting a four-month deadline for private security companies to cease operations in the country, his spokesman said Monday. A presidential decree expected to be issued later Monday will detail the process through which the companies should cease operations, spokesman Waheed Omar told reporters in Kabul. President Hamid Karzai has said repeatedly in […]