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WITNESS - Battlefield dead haunt U.S. Marines and Afghans alike

Reuters : South Asia: 1 hour ago
MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Corporal Jacob Turbett gave out a single groan of pain before the Taliban bullet, which had pierced his heart, ended his life. ...read article

Suicide blasts in Pakistan's Lahore kill 45

Reuters : South Asia: 1 hour ago
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military killed at least 45 people in Lahore on Friday, officials said, in a challenge to government assertions that crackdowns have weakened Taliban insurgents. ...read article

Sri Lanka to try former army chief next week

Reuters : South Asia: 19 hours ago
COLOMBO (Reuters) - The court martial of defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka will begin next week on charges of engaging in politics while army chief and procurement malpractices, officials said on Thursday. ...read article

ANALYSIS - Pakistani Taliban militants may be down, but not out

Reuters : South Asia: 19 hours ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's unprecedented crackdown on its homegrown Taliban may have weakened the militants but the insurgency is still a threat to the unpopular U.S.-backed government. ...read article

UK troops to hand over to U.S. in Afghan district

Reuters : South Asia: 19 hours ago
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers will take over security from British troops in the Musa Qala area of southern Afghanistan as Washington builds up its force as part of a new counter-insurgency strategy, Britain said on Thursday. ...read article

We don't want proxy wars in Afghanistan, Karzai says

Reuters : South Asia: 1 day ago
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan does not want a proxy war between Pakistan and India or anybody else fought on its soil, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday during a visit to Pakistan. ...read article

U.S. House to vote on pullout from Afghanistan

Reuters : South Asia: 1 day ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy, U.S. lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war. ...read article

UK minister urges push for Afghan peace settlement

Reuters : South Asia: 1 day ago
LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbours must support such an agreement. ...read article

Decisive phase of Afghan war looms - U.S.'s Gates

Reuters : South Asia: 2 days ago
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates told troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday they would soon be part of a "decisive phase" in the war -- an operation to impose control over the ... ...read article

Iran's Ahmadinejad plans Afghan visit on Wednesday

Reuters : South Asia: 3 days ago
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to travel to Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, a day after the United States accused the Islamic state of a "double game" in its neighbour. ...read article

Gates: Afghan war's "decisive phase" looms in Kandahar

Reuters : South Asia: 3 days ago
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday they would soon be part of a "decisive phase" in the war -- an operation to impose control over the ... ...read article

Bomb attack on Pakistani police kills 12

Reuters : South Asia: 4 days ago
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb attack on a police intelligence unit in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least 12 people and wounded about 65 during Monday's morning rush hour, officials said. ...read article

Afghanistan commander sees slow buildup in Kandahar

Reuters : South Asia: 4 days ago
KABUL (Reuters) - NATO will amass troops gradually to control the Taliban's birthplace Kandahar rather than launch one big assault as they did in nearby Helmand last month, the commander of foreign troops in Afghanistan said on Monday. ...read article

Gates in Kabul, cautions against over-optimism

Reuters : South Asia: 4 days ago
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates cautioned against over-optimism despite "bits and pieces of good news" from Afghanistan, warning of hard days ahead as he arrived on Monday to meet generals and President Hamid Karzai. ...read article

Karzai visits Afghan battle zone, vows to rebuild

Reuters : South Asia: 4 days ago
MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an unannounced visit to the southern town of Marjah on Sunday, promising angry elders that he will rebuild the former Taliban stronghold after a big NATO operation. ...read article

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