Afghanistan
Obama must send more troops to Afghanistan: Sen. Lieberman AFP 09/09/2009 | Afghanistan election commission orders partial vote recount CNN 09/08/2009 |
 WASHINGTON — The United States has a new Afghan war strategy that will "turn the tide" against the Taliban, but requires more troops to join the eight-year-old conflict, a US senator said Tuesday. |  Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission on Tuesday ordered a partial recount of the ballots in the August 20 presidential election. |
NATO Selects Canadian General to Probe Deadly Afghan Air StrikeGregory Viscusi Bloomberg.com 09/08/2009 | |
 BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she "deeply regrets" any innocent victims in Afghanistan, after an air strike last week ordered by a German commander left scores dead. |  NATO’s commander in Afghanistan appointed a Canadian general to investigate a Sept. 4 air strike that may have killed civilians. |
Three dead in suicide attack on Kabul airbaseLynne O'Donnell AFP 09/08/2009 | Pictures of dying marine bring war home to AmericaGaby Hinsliff The Guardian 09/07/2009 |
 KABUL — A suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy outside Kabul's military airport Tuesday, killing three civilians and wounding four foreign soldiers in a fiery vehicle blast claimed by the resurgent Taliban. |  It is a graphic image of the harsh realities of war: the fatally wounded young marine lying crumpled in the mud, his vulnerable face turned to the camera. And it is one the US defence secretary would rather you did not see. |
Afghan rights body: dozens of civilians died in NATO strikeSayed Salahuddin Reuters 09/07/2009 | Afghan officials disqualify votes from 450 polling placesM. Karim Faiez and Laura King Los Angeles Times 09/07/2009 |
 Scores of civilians died in last week's NATO air strike on Taliban insurgents in northern Afghanistan, a prominent domestic rights group said on Monday in a first independent estimate of the death toll. |  Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey -- Afghan election officials on Sunday announced their first mass disqualification of votes because of possible fraud in the bitterly contested presidential race, even as President Hamid Karzai edged closer to the majority he needs for a first-round victory. |
Britain may send more troops to AfghanistanPatrick Wintour The Guardian 09/05/2009 | Afghan officials say NATO airstrike killed mostly civiliansM. Karim Faiez and Laura King Los Angeles Times 09/05/2009 |
 Britain is considering a further short-term increase in its 9,000 troop strength in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown said yesterday in a speech seeking to prop up waning public support for the war. |  Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey -- In an incident that could seriously undermine the central U.S. aim in Afghanistan, dozens of civilians were killed or injured early Friday in a NATO airstrike, Afghan authorities said. |
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