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  <title>NI soldier killed in Afghanistan  </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Neil Turkington from Portadown is one of three serviceman killed by a renegade Afghan soldier in Helmand.]]>  </description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:11:48 EDT  </pubDate>
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  <title>John Simpson on Afghan strategy  </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The fatal attack on three British servicemen by an Afghan soldier has raised fresh questions about the coalition's strategy to train local recruits to deal with security in Afghanistan. ]]>  </description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:21:49 EDT  </pubDate>
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  <title>Afghan raids kill five US troops  </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Five US soldiers are killed in separate gun attacks and bombing incidents in the east and south of Afghanistan, Nato says.]]>  </description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:20:42 EDT  </pubDate>
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  <title>Six U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan  </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Deaths raise number of American troops killed this month to 23


  
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  <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EDT  </pubDate>
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  <title>Petraeus assumes Afghan command  </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The new commander of US-led forces in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, formally takes over the 130,000-strong force. ]]>  </description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:05:40 EDT  </pubDate>
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  <title>The hollow shell that is NATO  </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Afghanistan is the last, tragic time this giant alliance will play a major military role in the world


  
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  <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:03:00 EDT  </pubDate>
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  <title>Petraeus arrives in Afghanistan  </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[US Gen David Petraeus arrives in Afghanistan to take command of American and Nato forces fighting the Taliban insurgency.]]>  </description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:37:53 EDT  </pubDate>
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  <title>New U.S. commander pushes faltering Afghan war effort  </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[KABUL (Reuters) - The United States' top field commander arrived in Afghanistan on Friday to take charge of the faltering war, pledging to tackle the nine-year-old Taliban insurgency with a strategy he successfully pioneered in Iraq.
  
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  <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:35:41 EDT  </pubDate>
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