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01 26th, 2010|
AFP - A suicide bomber struck near a US military base in Kabul on Tuesday injuring at least nine Afghans, police and the NATO force said, just days ahead of a global summit on tackling a Taliban-led insurgency.
Jan
26
AP - A suicide car bomber struck a barrier outside a U.S. base in Kabul on Tuesday, wounding six Afghans and eight American troops hours after gunmen killed four policemen in southern Afghanistan.
Nov
8
AFP - A top US army officer said on Sunday he did not have confidence in a hand-held device used by Iraq’s security forces to detect explosives and stop suicide bombers passing through checkpoints.
Oct
8
AFP - The Pentagon said a giant “bunker buster” bomb will be ready within months, adding a powerful weapon to the US arsenal amid tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.
Sep
17
AP - A suicide car bomber killed six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians Thursday in the heavily guarded capital of Kabul a grim reminder of the Taliban’s reach amid political uncertainty in Afghanistan.
Aug
3
AFP - The US Defense Department on Monday said it wants to speed up production plans for an enormous “bunker buster” bomb amid concern over underground nuclear sites in Iran and North Korea.
Aug
3
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Reuters - The Pentagon is seeking to speed deployment of an ultra-large “bunker-buster” bomb on the most advanced U.S. bomber as soon as July 2010, the Air Force said on Sunday, amid concerns over perceived nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran.
Jul
12
AP - A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have deployed in a massive operation to oust Taliban fighters from the country’s opium poppy region, officials said Sunday.
Jul
10
AFP - A suicide car bomb exploded outside a NATO military base in Afghanistan on Monday, killing two Afghans, as US Marines pushed on with an assault against Taliban strongholds in the south.
Jul
1
AFP - Iraqi security forces jubilantly paraded in tanks and armoured vehicles on Tuesday as they took control of towns and cities, but the celebrations were marred by a car bomb that killed 27 people.