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12 19th, 2008|
Reuters - The incoming Barack Obama administration will inherit an urgent crisis in Afghanistan and must increase U.S. and NATO troop levels there while enlarging the Afghan army, a U.S. think tank recommended on Thursday.
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AFP - The United States denied Thursday that the government of Kyrgyzstan to close the US military base at Bishkek airport which supports military operations in Afghanistan.
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AP - As of Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008, at least 558 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EST.