insurgents
Jul 2 2008, Madhuri Katti

According to recent Pentagon and an independent website reports, combat deaths are on rise in parts of Afghanistan. American military death toll has been the highest in this month of June and they are still counting. There are no confirmed records of...

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In this image released by the US Army, former insurgents line up at a US military base in Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 22, 2008. The U.S. military said more than 140 suspected insurgents turned themselves over to...