DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Taliban Strike U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan - Killing At Least 4

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Taliban Strike U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan - Killing At Least 4

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 15, 2013: The Taliban attacked a U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan with car bombs and guns on Friday, killing at least four Afghans but failing to enter the compound or hurt any Americans.

 

The attack in the city of Herat underscored concerns about an insurgency that shows no signs of letting up as U.S.-led troops reduce their presence ahead of a full withdrawal next year.

Within hours of the assault, the U.S. temporarily evacuated many of its consular personnel to the embassy in Kabul, 650 kilometres (400 miles) to the east Herat lies near Afghanistan's border with Iran and is considered one of the safer cities in the country, with a strong Iranian influence. Friday's attack highlighted the Taliban's reach: The militants once concentrated their activities in the east and the south, but in recent years have demonstrated an ability to strike with more frequency in the once-peaceful north and west.

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DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Taliban Strike U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan - Killing At Least 4

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Taliban Strike U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan - Killing At Least 4

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 15, 2013: The Taliban attacked a U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan with car bombs and guns on Friday, killing at least four Afghans but failing to enter the compound or hurt any Americans.

 

The attack in the city of Herat underscored concerns about an insurgency that shows no signs of letting up as U.S.-led troops reduce their presence ahead of a full withdrawal next year.

Within hours of the assault, the U.S. temporarily evacuated many of its consular personnel to the embassy in Kabul, 650 kilometres (400 miles) to the east Herat lies near Afghanistan's border with Iran and is considered one of the safer cities in the country, with a strong Iranian influence. Friday's attack highlighted the Taliban's reach: The militants once concentrated their activities in the east and the south, but in recent years have demonstrated an ability to strike with more frequency in the once-peaceful north and west.

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DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Taliban Strike U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan - Killing At Least 4

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Taliban Strike U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan - Killing At Least 4

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 15, 2013: The Taliban attacked a U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan with car bombs and guns on Friday, killing at least four Afghans but failing to enter the compound or hurt any Americans.

 

The attack in the city of Herat underscored concerns about an insurgency that shows no signs of letting up as U.S.-led troops reduce their presence ahead of a full withdrawal next year.

Within hours of the assault, the U.S. temporarily evacuated many of its consular personnel to the embassy in Kabul, 650 kilometres (400 miles) to the east Herat lies near Afghanistan's border with Iran and is considered one of the safer cities in the country, with a strong Iranian influence. Friday's attack highlighted the Taliban's reach: The militants once concentrated their activities in the east and the south, but in recent years have demonstrated an ability to strike with more frequency in the once-peaceful north and west.

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DTN News - KARZAI AT PENTAGON: Panetta Hosts Arrival Ceremony, Meets With Afghan President At Pentagon

DTN News - KARZAI AT PENTAGON: Panetta Hosts Arrival Ceremony, Meets With Afghan President At Pentagon

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 12, 2013:  Afghan President Hamid Karzai passes and reviews U.S. troops during an arrival ceremony with full honors at the Pentagon, Jan. 10, 2013.

 DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

DTN News - KARZAI AT PENTAGON: Panetta Hosts Arrival Ceremony, Meets With Afghan President At Pentagon

DTN News - KARZAI AT PENTAGON: Panetta Hosts Arrival Ceremony, Meets With Afghan President At Pentagon

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 12, 2013: U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta hosts an arrival ceremony with full honors to welcome Afghan President Hamid Karzai to the Pentagon, Jan. 10, 2013. 

DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

DTN News - KARZAI AT PENTAGON: Panetta Hosts Arrival Ceremony, Meets With Afghan President At Pentagon

DTN News - KARZAI AT PENTAGON: Panetta Hosts Arrival Ceremony, Meets With Afghan President At Pentagon

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 12, 2013: U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, center right, escorts Afghan President Hamid Karzai through an honor cordon at the Pentagon, Jan. 10, 2013. 

DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

DTN News - KARZAI AT PENTAGON: Panetta Hosts Arrival Ceremony, Meets With Afghan President At Pentagon

DTN News - KARZAI AT PENTAGON: Panetta Hosts Arrival Ceremony, Meets With Afghan President At Pentagon

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 12, 2013:  U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta welcomes Afghan President Hamid Karzai to the Pentagon, Jan. 10, 2013, before hosting an arrival ceremony with full honors. 

DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley 

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Female Car Bomber Kills 12 In Kabul

DTN News - AFGHAN WAR NEWS: Female Car Bomber Kills 12 In Kabul

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 18, 2012: Afghanistan police and officials investigate the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on September 18, 2012. 

A suicide bomber blew himself up alongside a minivan carrying foreigners on a major highway leading to the international airport in the Afghan capital, police said, killing at least 12 people, including nine foreigners was in revenge for an anti-Islam film made in America. (Photo - AFP)

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DTN News - HILLARY CLINTON IN HANOI: Clinton Supports Vietnam's To Resolve Issues In Disputed South China Sea

DTN News - HILLARY CLINTON IN HANOI: Clinton Supports Vietnam's To Resolve Issues In Disputed South China Sea

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 10, 2012: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, poses for a photo with Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the Government Office in Hanoi Tuesday, July 10, 2012. 

U.S. Secretary of State Clinton says she supports Vietnam's work to help resolve issues in the disputed South China Sea but believes the communist country needs to do more to protect human rights.  (Photo - AP)

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DTN News - HILLARY CLINTON IN KABUL: Clinton Greets Troops Before Departing Kabul

DTN News - HILLARY CLINTON IN KABUL: Clinton Greets Troops Before Departing Kabul

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 10, 2012: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, greets troops before departing Kabul International Airport Saturday July 7, 2012. The Obama administration on Saturday declared Afghanistan the United States' newest "major non-NATO ally," an action designed to facilitate close defense cooperation after U.S. combat troops withdraw from the country in 2014 and as a political statement of support for Afghanistan's long-term stability.

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DTN News - HILLARY CLINTON IN KABUL: US Declared Afghanistan "Major Non-NATO Ally"

DTN News - HILLARY CLINTON IN KABUL: US Declared Afghanistan "Major Non-NATO Ally"

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 10, 2012: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks during a press conference with President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul Saturday July 7, 2012. 

The Obama administration on Saturday declared Afghanistan the United States' newest "major non-NATO ally," an action designed to facilitate close defense cooperation after U.S. combat troops withdraw from the country in 2014 and as a political statement of support for Afghanistan's long-term stability.

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DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over

DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 15, 2011: Soldiers during the ceremony in Baghdad on Thursday.

U.S. forces formally ended their nine-year war in Iraq on Thursday with a low key flag ceremony in Baghdad, while to the north flickering violence highlighted ethnic and sectarian strains threatening the country in years ahead. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over

DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 15, 2011: More than one million Americans have served in Iraq.

U.S. forces formally ended their nine-year war in Iraq on Thursday with a low key flag ceremony in Baghdad, while to the north flickering violence highlighted ethnic and sectarian strains threatening the country in years ahead(Michael Kamber for The New York Times)

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DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over

DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 15, 2011: A ceremony ending the American military engagement in Iraq.

U.S. forces formally ended their nine-year war in Iraq on Thursday with a low key flag ceremony in Baghdad, while to the north flickering violence highlighted ethnic and sectarian strains threatening the country in years ahead (Michael Kamber for The New York Times)

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DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over

DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 15, 2011:Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta addressed the ceremony.

U.S. forces formally ended their nine-year war in Iraq on Thursday with a low key flag ceremony in Baghdad, while to the north flickering violence highlighted ethnic and sectarian strains threatening the country in years ahead (Michael Kamber for The New York Times)

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DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. Military Marks End To Nearly Nine Bloody Years In Iraq

DTN News - IRAQ WAR NEWS: U.S. Military Marks End To Nearly Nine Bloody Years In Iraq

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 15, 2011: U.S. forces formally ended their nine-year war in Iraq on Thursday with a low key flag ceremony in Baghdad, while to the north flickering violence highlighted ethnic and sectarian strains threatening the country in years ahead.

At the height of the war in 2007 there were over 150,000 troops.(Michael Kamber for The New York Times)

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DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: US President Barack Obama With Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki At Arlington National Cemetery In Arlington Virginia

DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: US President Barack Obama With Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki At Arlington National Cemetery In Arlington Virginia

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 12, 2011: U.S. President Barack Obama and Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (3rd L) lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, December 12, 2011. (Photo - Reuters)

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DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: US President Barack Obama With Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki In The Oval Office At White House

DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: US President Barack Obama With Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki In The Oval Office At White House

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 12, 2011: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki (L) shakes hands with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office at the White House December 12, 2011 in Washington, DC. Al-Maliki is in Washington for talks ahead of the full withdrawl of U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of this month. (Photo - Getty)

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DTN News - NATO ATTACK ON PAKISTAN: US officials Say Pakistan Leaving Liaison Centers

DTN News - NATO ATTACK ON PAKISTAN: US officials Say Pakistan Leaving Liaison Centers

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - December 6, 2011: Pakistan is pulling its troops out of at least two of the three centers meant to coordinate military activity across the Afghan border in apparent retaliation for NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, U.S. military officials said.

The move will hamper U.S. efforts to liaise with Pakistani forces, increasing the risk that something could go wrong again, said the officials late Monday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The U.S. and Pakistan have offered different accounts of what led to the NATO attacks against two army posts along the Afghan border before dawn on Nov. 26, but the deadly incident seems to have been caused in part by communication breakdowns.

The soldiers' deaths have plunged the already strained U.S.-Pakistan relations to an all-time low, threatening Washington's attempts to get Pakistan to cooperate on the Afghan war despite billions of dollars in American aid.

Pakistan retaliated immediately by closing its Afghan border crossings to NATO supplies, demanding the U.S. vacate an air base used by American drones and boycotting an international conference held Monday in Bonn, Germany, aimed at stabilizing Afghanistan.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told The Associated Press in an interview Monday that Pakistan wants to repair relations with the United States.

But the military's decision to abandon the border coordination centers shows it is still outraged over the incident, which it has called deliberate - an allegation denied by the U.S. The Pakistan army is considered the strongest organization in Pakistan and will likely determine the future course of ties with the U.S.

Pakistan may still have troops at the coordination center in Torkham in the country's northwest Khyber tribal area, but has pulled out of the other two along the border, said the U.S. officials.

The Pakistani military did not immediately respond to request for comment.

NATO attacks have killed Pakistani troops at least three different times along the porous and poorly defined border since 2008, but the incident on Nov. 26 in the Mohmand tribal area was by far the most deadly.

U.S. officials have said the incident occurred when a joint U.S. and Afghan patrol requested air support after coming under fire. The U.S. checked with the Pakistan military to see if there were friendly troops in the area and were told there were not, they said.

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DTN News - AFGANISTAN TODAY: Afghan Police Officer Demonstrating His Skill During Graduation Ceremony In Adreskan, Herat Province

DTN News - AFGANISTAN TODAY: Afghan Police Officer Demonstrating His Skill During Graduation Ceremony In Adreskan, Herat Province

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 2, 2011: An Afghan police officer demonstrates his skills during a graduation ceremony in Adreskan, Herat province west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Around 500 policemen and officers graduated after four months of training.

The process of taking over security from over 130,000-strong NATO-led ISAF forces by Afghan troops will be completed by the end of 2014 when Afghanistan will take over the full leadership of its own security duties from U.S. and NATO forces. (Photo - AP)

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