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Karzai Told to Dump U.S.
Wall Street Journal
Pakistan is lobbying Afghanistan's president against building a long-term strategic partnership with the US, urging him instead to look to Pakistan—and its Chinese ally—for help in striking a peace deal with the Taliban and ...

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In this March 2, 2010 photo, U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus flight medic Sgt. Nathaniel Dabney closes the door of a medevac helicopter in preparation for takeoff, after loading aboard a wounded U.S. Marine, during an ongoing firefight, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban's momentum.


In this March 2, 2010 photo, U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus flight medic Sgt. Nathaniel Dabney closes the door of a medevac helicopter in preparation for takeoff, after loading aboard a wounded U.S. Marine, during an ongoing firefight, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban's momentum.


The Taliban, bracing for an American offensive in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, are showing their power there in an intensifying campaign of fear.

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The officials were killed after scores of Taliban militants attacked a security outpost in the Orakzai tribal region, where fierce fighting has broken out in recent days.

A Greek breast cancer patient, prepares for a radiological medical examination in an Athens hospital October 29, 2008. REUTERS/Yannis BehrakisAP - For some women, having a breast removed once they're diagnosed with cancer doesn't always mean they'll live longer, a new study says.


Pakistani naval soldiers are pictured as they demonstrate their skills on a beach in Karachi, on March 23. Pakistan's military said on Friday that five soldiers and at least 21 militants were killed in a heavy gun battle in the country's northwestern tribal belt along the Afghan border.(AFP/File/Asif Hassan)Reuters - Pakistani troops killed at least 34 militants after about 150 Taliban attacked a military checkpost in the northwest on Friday, challenging government assertions crackdowns have weakened the group.


File picture shows US troops in Afghanistan. Online scammers are posing as US serviceman posted overseas and promising love and marriage to cheat women out of thousands of dollars, the US Army's Criminal Investigation Command has warned(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - Online scammers are posing as US serviceman posted overseas and promising love and marriage to cheat women out of thousands of dollars, the US Army's Criminal Investigation Command has warned.


Pakistani jets carried out two attacks on Taliban targets in a tribal region in the northwest on Thursday, killing nearly 50 people, officials said.