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  France mulls early Afghanistan pullout as 4 killed

  France suspended its training operations in Afghanistan and threatened to withdraw its entire force from the country early after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French troops Friday and wounded 15 others.

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  Gunman opens fire on NATO troops in Afghanistan

  A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on coalition troops in western Afghanistan, military authorities said Monday. An official said several NATO troops were wounded in the shooting and the gunman was killed.

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  Bomb kills 5 Polish troops in Afghanistan

  A roadside bomb blast killed five Polish soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, NATO and a Polish official said, in the deadliest single attack for the Polish military there.

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  Bomber kills 13 Americans in Afghanistan

  A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armored NATO bus Saturday, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans on a busy street in Kabul in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in more than two months and a major setback for the U.S.-led coalition as it begins to draw down combat troops.

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  Karzai: Pakistan firing missiles into Afghanistan

  Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused Pakistan of firing 470 rockets into two eastern Afghan provinces over the past three weeks, a deadly rain of artillery that Afghan officials said killed 36 people, including 12 children.

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  Afghans: 2 dead in attack in Defense Ministry

  An alleged Taliban sleeper agent opened fire Monday inside the Defense Ministry, killing at least two soldiers before he was gunned down in the third deadly breach of security in Afghanistan in less than a week.

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  Afghan official blasts NATO for civilian deaths

  A provincial governor in Afghanistan said Wednesday that a battle between NATO and the Taliban the previous day killed three women and two children, and called on the coalition to "pay attention" to civilian casualties.

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  Taliban kills 13 Afghan soldiers, police

  Taliban fighters struck at Afghan security forces Sunday, storming an army recruiting center in the north that sparked a daylong gunbattle, and ambushing a bus carrying army officers in the capital — the first major attack in Kabul in months.

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  A roadside bomb targeting the car of a district police chief killed three police officers Thursday in southern Afghanistan, where militants have stepped up attacks on government workers in response to increased pressure from international troops.

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  NATO air strike accidentally kills 5 Afghan troops

  NATO mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in an air strike Wednesday while the Afghans were attacking insurgents in the country's east, officials said.

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