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U.S. Calls for Inquiry Into Nigeria Violence
ABC News
Automatic weapons fire punctuated by screams erupted after dark Tuesday in a Nigerian city located near villages where massacres just two days ago left more than 200 people dead. Nerves remained on edge, despite a long-standing dusk-til-dawn curfew...
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Gates Tours 'Reborn' Town In Southern Afghanistan
NPR
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, aiming to show progress in the expanded war against insurgents in south Afghanistan, took a brief, heavily guarded walk Tuesday down a rutted street in this scruffy market town where the Taliban lobbed mortars...
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Bomb Attack Kills 2 NATO Troops in Afghanistan
FOX News
A homicide attack Tuesday on NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan killed two international service members, the military alliance said.The attack was in the Ali Shir district of Khost province, where the alliance has a base near the Pakistan...
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Nigeria urged to end impunity after village massacre
Reuters
By Shuaibu MohammedJOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria must prosecute those behind a weekend massacre and address underlying issues of poverty and discrimination if it is to end a cycle of violence in the zone between its Muslim north...
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Two NATO soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan
Reuters
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two NATO soldiers were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military base in Afghanistan, the alliance and local government sources said.NATO spokesman Lieutenant Commander Iain Baxter confirmed two alliance...
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Nigerians bury massacre victims
AlJazeera
Nigerians are burying victims of a massacre of predominantly Christian villagers near the central city of Jos, blamed on a Muslim group. The burials in mass graves using mechanical excavators follow Sunday's attack on three villages that left...
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'Alone' in Afghanistan
Washington Post
QALAT, AFGHANISTAN -- To work in Zabul province these days is to feel forsaken. The Americans pulled a battalion out in December. The Afghan government promises help but sends little. Meanwhile, Taliban fighters continue to pour in. "I...