U.S. Report Finds Dismal Training of Afghan Police
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Five years after the fall of the Taliban, the police force in Afghanistan is largely incapable of carrying out routine tasks, a report said.
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The European Union took over a mission to train Afghanistan&#39;s police force in a ceremony overshadowed by the killing of 35 people in a suicide attack on a police bus hours earlier.
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A report into alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British troops is expected to say there were serious flaws in the training of soldiers to handle detainees.
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Iraqi authorities have taken a police brigade out of service and returned them to training because of "complicity" with death squads in the wake of a mass kidnapping in Baghdad this week, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Seven Afghan police officers are killed by US forces in an apparent "friendly fire" incident, Afghan officials say.
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The U.S. foreign service, stretched by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, suffers from morale problems and has about 200 unfilled posts abroad due to staff shortages, said a study released on Tuesday.
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NATO's estimate of Taliban killed this month has created skepticism and worry in Afghanistan, with local officials saying that either the militant force has grown bigger than imagined &#151; or too many innocent Afghans are being killed.
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The Pentagon does not have a clear picture about the state of the war in Afghanistan, with U.S. commanders on the ground offering positive assessments while intelligence reports are more negative, the U.S. Marine Corps chief said on Friday.
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The killing in Afghanistan spirals onward, undermining U.S. claims of success in pacifying the country with less than a week to go before an historic experiment with democracy &#151; direct presidential elections.
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Intensified military raids in Iraq over the past few months have significantly battered the ranks of mid-level insurgents but have scored few gains against the 30 or so most wanted rebels, according to senior U.S. military officers here.
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A U.S. general expressed doubt on Tuesday about reports U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan had killed more than 230 civilians this year, saying it was hard to get a good count as combat took place in remote areas.
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The NATO mission in Afghanistan is being undermined by members' failure to provide adequate troops and by serious strategic mistakes, a panel of British lawmakers said Wednesday in a report.
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An Army brigadier general who inspected U.S.-run detention centers in Afghanistan last summer found many shortcomings, including inadequate enforcement of approved interrogation rules, officials said Friday.
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The U.S. government has squandered millions of dollars intended for police training programs in Iraq because of rampant problems overseeing contractors, according to federal reviews released yesterday.
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A just-released report slams the federal government for failing to coordinate the work of U.S. law enforcement agencies overseas to fight terrorism.
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A U.S. Army investigation into abuse  at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq finds they resulted from failures  of leadership at the highest levels of command, the Washington  Post reported on Friday.
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The United States has invested $19 billion to train and equip nearly 350,000 Iraqi soldiers and police since toppling Saddam Hussein, but the ability of those forces to provide security remains in doubt, according to the findings of a bipartisan congressional investigation to be released today.