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Six US fighter jets destroyed in Prince Harry base attack

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Six US fighter jets were destroyed and two significantly damaged when insurgents stormed a heavily fortified Afghan base where Britain's Prince Harry is deployed on Friday, a NATO spokesman said.

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US Marines killed in Afghan base attack: Official

Two US Marines were killed in an attack Saturday on the military post in southern Afghanistan where Britain's Prince Harry is based, officials said, adding he was 'not in any danger'.

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US hands over Bagram prison to Afghans

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U.S. officials handed over formal control of Afghanistan's only large-scale U.S.-run prison to Kabul on Monday, even as disagreements between the two countries over the thousands of Taliban and terror

Prince Harry in Afghanistan for second tour of duty

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Britain's Prince Harry is back in Afghanistan to serve as a military helicopter pilot four years after his previous deployment there had to be cut short, the Ministry of Defence said on Friday.

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2 NATO killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash: Military

A NATO helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two NATO personnel in an area south of Kabul that is largely under Taliban control, officials said.

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Suicide attack kills many at Afghan funeral

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A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan government official at a village funeral near the Pakistan border on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more in one of the deadliest attacks of

US halts training some Afghan forces after attacks

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The U.S. military has halted the training of Afghan government-backed militias for at least a month to give the Americans time to redo the vetting of new recruits after a string of attacks by Afghan s

Many beheaded at party in bloody Afghan day

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Taliban Islamist insurgents beheaded 17 party-goers, 10 Afghan soldiers were killed and two NATO troops shot dead in a new insider attack in a bloody day across Afghanistan, officials said Monday.

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US troops punished over Quran burning, urination video

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The U.S. military said on Monday it was disciplining U.S. troops over two incidents that provoked outrage in Afghanistan early this year, one involving a video depicting Marines urinating on corpses a

Cricket bringing peace in Afghanistan, says Zakhilwal

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Cricket is bringing peace to war-ravaged Afghanistan and can further stabilise the country if foreign teams tour, an official said Sunday.

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