From AP :
Gen.
David Petraeus said the number of attacks in Afghanistan over the last week hit the highest level since the December 2001 fall of the Taliban.
“Some of this will go up because we are going to go after their sanctuaries and safe havens as we must,” Petraeus, head of U.S.
Central Command, said during a speech at the Washington think-tank Center for a New American Security.
“But there is...
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