Summary: For the second time in a week, Taliban fighters armed with suicide vests and automatic weapons attacked a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, July 25, 2009, triggering hours-long gunbattles that left seven militants dead. … One-year retrospective: On the 11th day of his 2008 campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman reported the response of Mr. Mario A. Hernández of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights in reply to his inquiry whether the August 9, 2008, “Know Your Rights” forum in Cold Spring, Minn., was intended specifically for legal immigrants and whether public funds would be used to benefit undocumented aliens.

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Summary: The Pentagon has identified the captured American soldier who went missing from his forward operating base in Afghanistan as Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, Ketchum, Idaho, a member of 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska. … One-year retrospective: On the fifth day of his campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman highlighted the growing mortgage crisis, noting that from a small-government, fiscally conservative perspective it is difficult to support the Bush administration plan to bail out mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

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Summary: Seven U.S. troops die in three attacks in Afghanistan; commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, issues new guidelines limiting the use of airstrikes against residential compounds and other locations likely to produce civilian casualties, alienating Afghan villagers and causing loss of support for the Afghan government and the international mission.

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Summary: Weekly summary of security incidents in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom).

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Summary: Weekly summary of security incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Summary: A rocket attack on Bagram Air Base, the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, early Sunday, June 21, 2009 killed two U.S. troops and wounded six other Americans. … A truck bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque in Taza, near Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Saturday, June 20, 2009 killing more than 70 people in the deadliest attack of 2009.

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Summary: Daily summary of security developments in Afghanistan, as reported by Reuters.

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Summary: Some 10,000 Marines have poured into Afghanistan, comprising the first wave of 21,000 additional troops President Barack Obama ordered to Afghanistan in 2009 to help defeat an increasingly violent Taliban insurgency.

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Summary: Two roadside bombs have killed four more American troops in Afghanistan as violence continues to mount and U.S. casualties climb to record levels.

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Summary: Suicide bombings in Afghanistan’s northern Kapisa province and Iraq’s western Anbar province have killed six Americans — three in each theater.

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