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Crowds gather around destroyed vehicles following a suicide bomb detonated near Camp Phoenix, a logistics support base for US forces just outside Kabul, yesterday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack

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Prime Minister says Nato will send another 5,000 troops to Afghanistan

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General Sarath Fonseka is expected to lead an alliance of nine small groups in an election set for April

Sri Lanka general: I was sidelined

Sri Lanka's outgoing military chief used his resignation letter to accuse the government of sidelining him on suspicion he was plotting a coup after leading the army to victory over Tamil Tiger rebels.

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