Afghan President Hamid Karzai has leveled serious accusations at U.S. military forces in his nation, claiming they have been involved in the torture and murder of “innocent people.” Karzai ordered U.S. special forces to leave a strategically
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Local officials in Yemen say that a United States-led drone strike over the weekend there killed 13 civilians. Members of the Yemeni government tells reporters that an unmanned aerial vehicle operated remotely by the United States military executed more than a dozen civilians, including three women, near the town of Rada in al-Baitha province on Sunday.
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Noor Mohammad is a 58-year-old farmer living in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan. He and his family grow poppy for a living. In his long-stretched poppy field, Noor told Xinhua, "I know it is banned, but we have to grow poppy. Planting wheat and other things cannot support our families."
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DURING the past five years the war on terror in Afghanistan has cost New Zealand $NZ185 million ($A143.07 million).
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Thousands of US soldiers are going into battle fueled by all sorts of prescription medications, be they amphetamines, antidepressants, sedatives or others. Largely unmonitored consumption of drugs can lead to aberrant behavior and mental disorders.
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Only 27% say they back the effort, and 66% say the oppose the war
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on US troops to tighten up discipline and display "integrity" after a series of public relations disasters in Afghanistan
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The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the...
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