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In this photo released by the Australian Defense Department, an Australian Surveillance Reconnaissance Vehicle (SRV) patrols outside the perimeter of a forward operating base in Afghanistan Sept. 17, 2005. An elite Australian commando was injured and an Afghani soldier killed when their patrol clashed with insurgents in Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 23, 2005. The clash came less than a month after a group of 190 Australian special forces commandos began arriving in Afghanistan to bolster international efforts to restore law and order amid an upsurge in violence blamed on the al-Qaida terror network and supporters of the ousted Taliban regi
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 The Daily Telegraph Australia 
Command role for Aussies in Afghanistan
| AUSTRALIA is under increasing pressure to take command of coalition forces in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province after Dutch troops withdraw later this year. | The Daily Telegraph understands plans... (photo: AP / Australian Defense Department, CPL Bernard Pearson, HO)
An Afghan boy looks back as U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment patrol in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010.
Afghanistan   Defence   NATO   Photos   US  
 Asia Times 
Marjah, the city that never was
| By Gareth Porter | WASHINGTON - For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logist... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder)
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai walk together on the Presidential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.  BBC News 
Robert Gates warns of 'hard Afghan fight ahead'
| US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned that "hard fighting" lies ahead, in his first visit to Afghanistan since the launch of a major offensive there. | After meeting military chiefs... (photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen)
Afghanistan   Defence   Photos   S Asia   US   War  
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates testifies before the House Armed Services Committee about the 2010 National Defense Authorization Budget Request May 13, 2009, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington.  Star Tribune 
Gates praises troops in hard-hit battle unit in southern Afghanistan
| FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin to push back against the Tali... (photo: US Navy file / Chad J. McNeeley)
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 Democratic presidential hopeful, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, speaks at the "Take Back America" political conference in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)   (js1) Merinews
Americans: Dont quit Afghanistan
SOME VOICES in the US Congress are crying hoarse that the President order the American forces to pull out of Afghanistan within 30 days. if that entails danger to US... (photo: AP/Charles Dharapak)
Afghanistan   Kucinich   Military   Photos   US  
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and commander of the U.S. Forces Afghanistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan. The Columbus Dispatch
U.S. general in Afghanistan has eyes on Kandahar next
| KABUL - NATO-led troops are wrapping up the biggest military offensive of the Afghan war and laying the groundwork for the next push into the Taliban heartland of Kanda... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Afghanistan   Kabul   Nato   Photos   US  
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York Tuesday, Sept. 23, The New York Times
Iranian President to Visit Afghanistan
| Filed at 3:17 a.m. ET | TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Afghanistan on Wednesday. | Tuesday's announcement coincided with a visi... (photo: AP / Seth Weni)
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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference with President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010. The Dallas Morning News
Reconciliation with Taliban not likely in near future, Gates says
| KABUL - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that recent military offensives against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan had gained momentum but that a reconcilia... (photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen)
Afghanistan   Defense   Photos   Taliban   US  
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates walks with Maj. Wayne Don, Advisor for the Mongolian Expeditionary Task Force, and Mongolian Lt. Col. Javkhlanbayar, senior representative of the contingent, at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010. The New York Times
Gates Praises Troops in Southern Afghanistan
| Filed at 3:02 a.m. ET | FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy los... (photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen)
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2009.02.25
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