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BBC News
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A Canadian Senate committee says the government should consider withdrawing from Afghanistan unless its Nato allies provide additional troops there. The Canadian contingent has been involved in some of the heaviest fighting in the volatile south, with..
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BBC News
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Nato and Afghan forces have launched an operation to drive Taleban insurgents from the outskirts of the southern city of Kandahar.
Troops backed by helicopter gunships are patrolling west of the Arghandab river, a Nato statement said.
There have bee..
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FOX News
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NATO says a roadside bomb has killed six soldiers and their Afghan interpreter in southern Afghanistan.
Afghan police officials say the attack happened in a volatile region of Kandahar province.
NATO hasn't released the nationalities of the victims,..
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BBC News
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Taleban rebels have captured a district in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar after days of fierce fighting.
Afghan forces say they pulled out of Myanishen district as a tactical move.
Correspondents say the militants have taken a number of di..
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Al Jazeera
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Eric Damfreville was handed to tribal elders in the southern province of Kandahar and then to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Franz Rauchenstein, ICRC deputy head of delegation, also confirmed the release. "He has been handed over..
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Al Jazeera
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A United Nations spokesman said a vehicle from the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) had been attacked while travelling to the UN's base in Kandahar city.
"The blast has claimed the lives of an Afghan driver and four Nepalese contract..
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