Taliban fears inhibit turnout in Afghan elections
KABUL Taliban threats appeared to dampen voter turnout in the militant south today when Afghans chose the next president for their deeply troubled country. Insurgents launched scattered rocket, suicide and bomb attacks that closed some polling site...
 6.5K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 249.0 New technology protects soldiers and civilians
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Henson goes out on patrol with a computer on his back and a joystick in his holster. He also carries a rifle, but the military is hoping he ll soon have less need for it. A wire...
4.8K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 249.0 Three British troops killed in Afghanistan
KABUL (AP) Three British paratroopers and an American service member were killed in attacks in Afghanistan s south and east, officials said today, raising the number of international troops slain in the first week of August to 19. The pace of Weste...
3.9K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 249.0 Taliban launches rocket attacks before election
KABUL (AP) A string of rockets slammed into Kabul at daybreak today in the first major attack on the relatively calm Afghan capital in the run-up to this month s presidential election, police and residents said. A suicide bomber also killed five pe...
4.9K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 249.0 U.S. troops die in Afghan ambush
KABUL (AP) Three American soldiers died in a complex militant ambush in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, raising NATO s two-day August death toll to nine and continuing the bloodiest period of the eight-year war for U.S. and allied troops. The U.N. s...
5.5K - Aug. 2, 2009; scored 249.0 Marines start talking to tribal chiefs
NAWA, Afghanistan U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan today, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest military operation here since the fall of th...
6.8K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 Marines exchange fire with Taliban
NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants today after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major op...
7.7K - Jul. 2, 2009; scored 249.0 Attack on U.S. convoy kills 20 people
KABUL, Afghanistan A suicide bomber rammed his car into a U.S. military convoy as it was passing through a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan today, killing at least 20 civilians and an American soldier, officials said. The attack outside Jalala...
2.5K - Nov. 13, 2008; scored 249.0 | 
