A top NATO official says more helicopters, surveillance aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and other equipment is needed in Afghanistan. U.S. Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, also wants national authorities to reduce or drop restrictions on how and where troops from their countries can be used in NATO’s Afghanistan mission.Read the rest of this entry »

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Firefighters in California have been fighting thousands of wildfires burning throughout the state. In Modoc County, planes circled over a forest and released fire deterrent fluid onto the blazes as plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the ground.

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Forest fire near Athens 25/06/2008.

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Israel is remaining silent on reports it has rehearsed an attack on nuclear sites in Iran. massive military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean earlier this month involved more than a hundred Israeli F16 and F15 fighters, according to American officials.
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A member of an Iraqi city council shot at U.S. forces Monday outside Baghdad, killing at least three soldiers, two Iraqi Interior Ministry officials said
But the U.S. military said one coalition soldier and an "enemy" were killed and five others were wounded. The military said it is investigating.
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Israel conducts mock attacks as US plans tougher sanctions.

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Paratroopers engage snipers shooting civilians in a building in downtown Baghdad.

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Four civilians including two children were killed when militants fired rockets at NATO bases in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance force and police said. Some 20 rockets slammed the area in two separate incidents, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.Read the rest of this entry »

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Paratroopers engage snipers shooting civilians in a building in downtown Baghdad.

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Four soldiers were killed on Thursday in an exchange of fire with unknown attackers along the Line of Control, the military said.Adding that two of our soldiers embraced martyrdom on the spot and two others injured later died at hospital
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The attack underscored distrust between the two countries that has deepened since they became allies in the US-led "war on terror" after the attacks on Sept 11, 2001. The strike, which occurred late on Tuesday night, followed a clash between Afghan forces and Taliban militants in Kunar near the Pakistani Mohmand tribal area. Pakistan's prime minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, condemned the attack.Read the rest of this entry »

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Three women and a child were killed along with 17 militants in an attack by the United States-led forces on a militant compound in eastern Afghanistan, the force and an official said Wednesday.
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Iran's defense minister warned of a "painful response" if Israel attacks Iran, the official news agency of Iran reported. Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar was responding to statements from Shaul Mofaz, an Israeli Cabinet minister, who warned Friday that Israel will attack Iran if it doesn't abandon its nuclear program.Read the rest of this entry »

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The bodies of thirteen security officials killed during Afghan forces attack have been recovered whereas 40 officials are reported missing. According to official sources, Afghan forces attacked Chopara check post with automatic and heavy weapons near Afghan border in Mohmand Agency late Tuesday night killing 13 security officials including Major Akbar. Security forces had retaliated the attack.Read the rest of this entry »

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