[THS] War Stories

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Pakistan: Over 100 militants killed in Orakzai blitz:

Over 100 militants, including four commanders, were killed and their seven hideouts
destroyed when jet fighters blitzed targets in upper parts of Orakzai Agency on
Sunday, official and tribal sources said.
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?227785

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Two killed in Quetta rickshaw blast:

Two persons were killed and 14 others, including three females and seven children,
were injured - some of them seriously - in a powerful bomb explosion in a rickshaw
parked on the Airport Road here on Monday.
http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=29083

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13 Taliban killed in attack in Ghazni, Afghanistan:

Foreign and Afghan forces killed 13 Taliban in an attack involving an air strike on
Monday in an area of Ghazni province, an official said.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6997599.html

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Elder, five civilians killed in Afghanistan:

A bomb ripped through a minibus in western Afghanistan on Monday, killing five
civilians and wounding another eight, some critically, the interior ministry said. The
Toyota Coaster bus had been taking passengers from the district of Pusht Rod in
Farah province to Khaki Safed district.
http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=29076

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Two NATO occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:

"An ISAF servicemember died following a small-arms attack in eastern Afghanistan
today," a statement from the alliance said. NATO had earlier announced another
soldier had been killed by a roadside bomb of the type used by the Taliban in the
country's south.
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n220702

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Afghanistan: US troop numbers surpass Iraq:

The Pentagon has announced that more US forces are now serving in Afghanistan
than in Iraq for the first time since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Pentagon
said on Monday that 94,000 troops had been deployed in Afghanistan compared to
92,000 soldiers in Iraq.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.442521676

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