Marines Open Fire After Afghan Ambush
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 4 -- At least eight Afghan civilians were killed Sunday in eastern Afghanistan when U.S. Marines traveling in a convoy were hit by a car bomb and responded by firing in a way that some witnesses called reckless.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bombing aimed at a US military convoy triggered a chaotic round of gunfire on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, leaving at least eight Afghan civilians dead and about three dozen others wounded, officials said.
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"Out the window I could see shots being fired at the guardpost by the gate"  In a coordinated assault rarely seen in Kabul, militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47s attacked the Afghan capital's most popular luxury hotel Monday, killing at least two people and wounding several, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.The 6:12 p.m. attack came on a night the Norwegian embassy was holding a meeting at the Serena Hotel. An American inside said she saw a body she believed to be dead and pools of blood in the lobby, and hotel employees reported two dead. She said three foreigners were wounded. Read more
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an assassination bid on Thursday when a rocket was fired at his US military helicopter as it was landing in the southeastern town of Gardez.
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NATO-led troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants Tuesday in a volatile southern Afghan province where hundreds of militant fighters have amassed.
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A British Royal Marine is killed and another wounded in a battle with Taleban fighters in Afghanistan, the MoD said.
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US marines probe whether a soldier shot dead an unarmed, injured insurgent at close range in Falluja.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., Oct. 6 -- Eight members of a Marine squad planned to kill a suspected Iraqi insurgent and developed a cover story before their April raid, but when they could not find their target, they pulled a neighbor from his bed and shot him to death instead, a Navy medic who was part...
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Up to 40 US soldiers streamed out of a CH-47 Chinook in an air assault on a Taliban position in southern Afghanistan shortly before the helicopter crashed, officials said yesterday, killing five Americans, a Briton, and a Canadian.
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A Royal Marine has died during an exchange of fire with insurgents in Afghanistan, the MoD confirms.
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The US military says marines in Fallujah shot and killed an insurgent who engaged them as he was faking being dead, a week after footage of a marine killing an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi caused a stir in the region.
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U.S. forces in central Afghanistan called in the airstrike after coming under rocket fire on Sunday night.
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Rebel fighters attacked U.S. troops and fired rockets at American helicopters in a skirmish in southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.
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Description: An American Marine is shown on videotape shooting an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi man in a mosque in the city of Fallujah.
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U.S. forces in central Afghanistan called in the airstrike after coming under rocket fire Sunday.
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Taliban used heavy machine guns and rocket propelled grenades to ambush a U.S.-led coalition patrol in southern Afghanistan that wounded nine troops, a coalition statement said Thursday.
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French troops have shot dead a gunman in the Afghan capital, Kabul, after he opened fire on them, the US military says.