Afghanistan
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Obama apologizes to Afghan President for Quran burnings
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The Afghan president's office says it has received a letter from President Barack Obama formally apologizing for the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
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Afghan woman heads to Olympics for boxing
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Besides going after a medal in the boxing ring at the London Olympics, Sadaf Rahimi will be taking a few punches in the fight for equal rights for Afghan women.
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Photos of Marines with Nazi symbol surfaces
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The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS — a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others.
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Panetta: U.S. combat in Afghanistan to end next year
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Panetta called 2013 a critical year for the Afghanistan mission that has dragged on for more than a decade with little sign that the Taliban will be decisively defeated.
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Marines name general to handle video probes
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The Marine Corps on Friday laid the groundwork for deciding what, if any, disciplinary action will be taken in the case of an Internet video purporting to show Marine snipers urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan.
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Md. flags lowered in memory of Army Spc. Ronald Wildrick
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has ordered that the United States and state flags be flown at half-staff in memory of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
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Panetta promises full probe into video of urination on corpses
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Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from a video depicting what appears to be four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.
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Ronald Wildrick, killed in Afghanistan, returns home to Woodsboro
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Family, friends and people from the community paid their respects to Army Specialist Ronald H. Wildrick Jr. who died in Afghanistan last month.
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Cherissa Jackson returns from Afghanistan to surprise daughters, Ashley, Anita
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U.S. Air Force Capt. Cherissa Jackson returned home from Afghanistan today to her two unsuspecting twin daughters.
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Matthew Seidler, of Westminster, Md., killed in Afghanistan
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Matthew Seidler, 24, an Airman 1st class from Westminster, Md., was killed in Afghanistan Thursday. Some of his friends and neighbors talked about him with ABC7's Sunlen Miller.
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D.C. National Guard soldiers deploying to Afghanistan
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Nearly a hundred members of two D.C. National Guard units are about to begin a year's deployment in Afghanistan. For many of them this is not the first time being called to duty .
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Attacks on Shiites kill, wound many in Afghanistan
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In Afghanistan's first major sectarian assault since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago, a suicide bomber slaughtered 56 Shiite worshippers and wounded more than 160 others Tuesday outside a Shiite shrine in the capital.
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US soldier found guilty in Afghan thrill-killings
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Calvin Gibbs, the U.S. Army soldier accused of exhorting his bored underlings to slaughter three civilians for sport in Afghanistan, was convicted of murder and several other charges Thursday.
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POLITICO: Top U.S. commander relieved of duties
A top U.S. commander in Afghanistan was relieved of his duties on Friday after comments he made to POLITICO disparaging President Hamid Karzai.
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U.S. had advance warning of abuse at Afghan prisons, officials say
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The prospect that U.S. officials failed to act on prior warnings raises questions about their compliance with a law that prohibits the U.S. from funding units of foreign security forces when there is credible evidence they have committed human rights abuses.
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Prosecutions going up for war zone crime, reports say
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As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, the number of people indicted and convicted by the U.S. for bribery, theft and other reconstruction-related crimes in both countries is rapidly rising.
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13 Americans killed in Afghan bombing, U.S. officials say
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A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armored NATO bus Saturday in Kabul, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans, U.S. and Afghan officials said, in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in more than two months.
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Jerome Miller, local airman, dies in Afghanistan
CommentAn airman based at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland has died in Afghanistan.
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