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• Five Afghanistan scholars missing from UW
SEATTLE – Federal investigators are trying to find out if five Afghanistan scholars missing from the University of Washington vanished on their own or if something else happened to them. The men, all in their 20’s and 30’s, are in the United ...
• 3 NATO soldiers, 16 civilians die in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, part of the reason violence has spiked in the country, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday. In a ...
• 5 missing Afghan scholars turn up in Canada
SEATTLE - Five visiting scholars from Afghanistan who disappeared from the University of Washington were found Wednesday morning in Canada after crossing the border separately over the past several days, a U.S. immigration official said. "We wanted ...
• Afghanistan to NATO: Help us fight drugs
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Afghanistan appealed Thursday for more NATO help to attack heroin dealers whose thriving trade is blamed for bankrolling the widening insurgency against the pro-Western government and international forces. Afghan Defense Minister ...
• Gitmo prosecutor consulted priest for help
A 48-year-old veteran of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Vandeveld has testified he went to Guantanamo in 2007 as a "true believer" in the Pentagon's specially designed system for prosecuting terror suspects. He was assigned to lead the case ...