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Gucci Mane — Pleads NOT GUILTY to Assault Charges

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Gucci Mane just pled NOT GUILTY to aggravated assault in Atlanta for allegedly bashing a U.S. soldier over the head with a champagne bottle.Gucci (real name Radric Davis) allegedly bottled the Afghanistan vet back in March in an Atlanta nightclub…

GUCCI MANE Arrest Warrant Issued After Soldier Claims Assault

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An arrest warrant has been issued for rapper Gucci Mane after a soldier claims he tried to get a picture (more…)

Britain charges five Royal Marines with murder

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Five members of the Royal Marines have been charged with murder in relation to an incident in Afghanistan in 2011. Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said seven marines were arrested on Thursday and the Royal Military Police (RMP) had arrested two more on suspicion of murder, one on Friday and the other on Saturday, taking the total number of More >

UK a man with rare fever dies in hospital

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A man being treated for Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) after returning to the UK from Afghanistan has died in hospital. It was the first laboratory-confirmed case of CCHF in the UK, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA). CCHF is especially common in east and west Africa and is fatal in about 30 percent of human cases.

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The Taliban made $US400m in taxes and extortion

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THE Taliban raised $US400 million last year through taxes, donations, and extorting businessmen and narcotics dealers in Afghanistan, according to a new UN report. The Islamist group has also taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the billions pumped into Afghanistan for development projects, according to the report released this week by UN More >

British soldiers in Afghanistan being forced to act as bait

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British soldiers in Afghanistan are being forced to act as bait in an attempt to draw the Taleban into opening fire, a serving platoon commander has alleged. Soldiers are risking their lives to get around strict rules of engagement that allow them to shoot only if they are being attacked or are in “imminent danger”. The Taleban is increasingly More >

US military helicopter crashed in Afghanistan 11 kill

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A US military helicopter has crashed during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan, killing seven Americans and four Afghans in one of the deadliest air disasters of a war now into its second decade. The Taliban claimed they gunned down the Black Hawk.

American service personnel are dying at a rate of about one per More >

46 people killed across Afghanistan following bomb attack

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SUICIDE bombers have launched multiple attacks in a remote corner of southwestern Afghanistan near the Iranian border, killing policemen and shoppers buying food to break their daily Ramadan fast. A market bombing in northern Afghanistan brought the overall toll to 46 in the deadliest day for civilians this year.

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President Putin regrets NATO’s plan to leave Afghanistan

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MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is supporting the NATO mission in Afghanistan by providing a transit hub and isn’t happy about the alliance’s planned withdrawal.

Moscow has provided the U.S. and other NATO member states with air corridors and railway routes for carrying supplies to and from landlocked Afghanistan. Under More >

Government official and son killed in Afghanistan

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AN Afghan government official and his son were killed on Sunday in an attack claimed by Taliban in central Afghanistan, a government spokesman says.

“Ismael Wafa, the district governor of Chak district, Wardak province, was heading to his office along with his son when a group of Taliban insurgents opened fire on his vehicle, killing him and More >

Political motivation cited in US military scandal in Afghanistan

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US military officers have accused one of the highest-ranking US commanders in Afghanistan of trying to cover up a scandal at a US-funded hospital in Kabul to limit bad news in an election year.

The problems date back to 2010, when US officers expressed concerns about the possible embezzlement of funds from the Afghan-run Dawood National Military More >

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