-- KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide attacker detonated himself next to German soldiers shopping in a crowded market in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 10 people and wounding 16, officials said.Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted decisively to the deaths of the 3 German soldiers...
“These perfidious murders fill us all with disgust and horror,” Merkel said in a statement. “The German military is carrying out an important mission for the reconstruction and stabilization of Afghanistan.**********
It is the goal of the attackers to destroy the established successes of this rebuilding process.”
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LAST WORD: Give a little, get a lot...
Nearly 70 Taliban fighters are believed to have died in an ambush by US-led forces and Afghan soldiers in eastern Afghanistan while some 20 others were killed in a battle northeast of Kabul.
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