Afghanistan War News Updates -- July 10, 2009

Afghans stood by the crater from a truck blast in Logar Province on Thursday. Sixteen children were among the 24 people killed. Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press

A New General, And A New War, In Afghanistan -- Time Magazine

The headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul looks more like a college campus than the nerve center of a military operation involving more than 90,000 troops from 41 countries, its staff officers roaming the halls in each nation's distinct patterns of camouflage. On July 3, on a wooden deck at the back of his office in the compound, shaded by trees and a garden umbrella, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, who recently became ISAF's commander, and that of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, sat down to discuss his new role. Tall, lanky and earnest, with the loping stride of a long-distance runner — McChrystal runs 10 miles before his morning coffee — the general went to Afghanistan after a top job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. He knows Afghanistan well. The conflict there, McChrystal told TIME, is a "tough war, a very tough war."

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More News On Afghanistan

'Very hard summer' for troops in Afghanistan: Brown -- AFP
UK's Brown warns of more losses in Afghanistan -- Reuters
British troops bear brunt of south Afghan assault -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Two more UK deaths in Afghanistan -- BBC
Up to 22 Taliban killed in central Afghanistan -- AP
Operation Khanjari in Afghanistan -- L.A. Times (Photos)
Petraeus: Tough fight still ahead in Afghanistan -- AP
Truck Blast in Afghanistan Leaves at Least 24 Dead -- New York Times
At Least 2 Dozen Killed in Afghanistan Blast -- Washington Post
Truck bomb in Afghanistan kills 25, many of them children -- L.A. Times
War in Afghanistan Is Being Fought on Two Fronts -- Wall Street Journal
U.S. sends more mine-resistant vehicles to Afghanistan -- China View
US troops in Afghanistan safe but slow in more heavily-protected vehicles -- The Guardian
More Mine-resistant Vehicles Flow to Afghanistan -- Army.com
Marines Wrestle With Afghanistan’s New Airstrike Rules -- The Danger Room
Trampled by the 'Civilian Surge' -- Washington Post
Afghanistan tones down contentious marriage law -- AP
Afghanistan revises marriage law but women still required to submit to sexual intercourse -- The Telegraph
US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 647 -- AP