Canadian Soldier And Afghan BoyU.S. Troops Dying on Afghan Border With ... IRAN?
Allied combat deaths in Afghanistan surpassed those in Iraq for a second straight month in June. Meanwhile, New Yorker reporter Sy Hersh writes that U.S. covert operators are infiltrating Iran.
What do these two developments have in common? Maybe nothing. But as we report in Thursday’s New York Daily News, one new factor in the record high casualties of the ever-escalating Afghan war is that American troops are suddenly dying along the country’s border with Iran.
At least 10 Americans have been killed in action since May 25 in Afghanistan’s Farah province, which lies on the Iranian border.
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More News on Afghanistan/Pakistan Tribal Region:
Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan -- CNN
AFGHANISTAN: 30 days to scrounge more troops? -- L.A. Times
FACTBOX - Security developments in Afghanistan -- Reuters/Yahoo
Afghan Army kills 25 Taliban after ambush in the northwestern province of Badghis -- Long War Journal
US repels Taliban attack on the Pakistani border -- Long War journal
22 civilians killed by U.S. airstrike, Afghan governor says -- International Herald Tribune
US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 468 -- Boston.com
U.S. helicopter shot down in Afghanistan -- Yahoo News
NATO forces should drop Afghan "caveats": commander -- Yahoo News
Britain gives Pakistan £1bn to fight extremism -- Times Online
Musharraf Okay's US Strikes in Pakistan Targeting Bin Laden -- Gateway Pundit
Haqqani urges patience as new govt moves to root out tererorism -- Associate Press Of Pakistan
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