U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Anthony Stea, center, looks back during a dismounted patrol while Cpl. Pete, his military working dog, returns to him after searching the area for improvised explosive devices near the Kajaki Bazaar in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 27, 2011. Stea is a dog handler assigned to the personal security detachment for the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Marco Mancha
Afghanistan Success Is In Eye Of Beholder -- L.A. Times
As NATO insists that violence is declining while many Afghans say daily life has grown more perilous, tension has grown over so-called metrics that can be used to chart progress or deterioration.
Reporting from Forward Operating Base Ghazni, — The young U.S. Army sergeant had lost nearly all the blood in his body by the time he was rushed into a military field clinic at this dusty base in eastern Afghanistan.
As his distraught unit mates converged on the surgical suite, some of them weeping, the entire camp pitched in for an emergency blood drive. But military doctors' frantic efforts were futile, and Sgt. John A. Lyons, a 26-year-old from New Jersey who had studied Latin in college, died of the wounds he had suffered in a Taliban ambush.
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Bomb Blast in Eastern Afghanistan Kills 8 -- Voice of America
'Hundreds of UK troops' in Afghanistan after 2015 -- BBC
Shady goings-on behind latest Digger deaths -- The Age
Afghanistan to hold conference on US relations, Taliban talks -- Boston Herald/Deutsche Presse-Agentur
US seeking to dissolve Loya Jirga: Afghan analyst -- The Nation (Pakistan)
Soldiers take down and send home Kandahar memorial to Canada's war dead -- Yahoo News/Canadian Press
Remembrance Sunday: British troops in Helmand honour fallen comrades -- The Telegraph
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