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11/29/12 AFP: Afghan girl’s throat slit over refusal to wed Two men have been arrested for slitting the throat of a 15-year-old Afghan girl after her family refused a marriage proposal, police said Thursday. The girl was carrying water from a river to her village home in northern Kunduz province on Wednesday when she was murdered, police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini told AFP.

11/29/12 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 10 civilians in Afghanistan A roadside bomb exploded under a passenger van in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 10 people, most of them women and children, government officials said. Eight people were wounded in the blast in the Deh Rawood district of Uruzgan province, President Hamid Karzai's office said in a statement. The Interior Ministry said 14 people were wounded.

11/29/12 tolonews: 6 Civilians Killed in Helmand Roadside Blasts Six civilians have been killed in two roadside bomb blasts in southern Helmand province since Tuesday, local officials said. A blast on Wednesday morning killed four civilians from the one family when their Mazda car hit a hidden improvised explosive device in the Nowzad district around 8:00AM, district governor Sayed Murad Agha said.

11/27/12 DoD: Marine Casualty Identified Cpl. Christopher M. Monahan Jr., 25, of Island Heights, N.J., died Nov. 26 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 2, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

11/27/12 KP: Taliban leader killed in eastern Kunar province A local Taliban leader was killed following a joint military operation by Afgahn and coalition security forces in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan on Monday.

11/27/12 Bloomberg: Pentagon readies options for troops in Afghanistan after 2014 Pentagon leaders intend to present options for the number of US troops to keep in Afghanistan next year and beyond to President Obama by year's end, according to the Defense Department's chief spokesman.

11/27/12 paktribune: 6 ANA troops dead, 10 wounded Cops among 6 injured in 2 back-to-back explosion Defence ministry on Monday said six Afghan National Army (ANA) troops were killed and 10 more wounded during separate hostile incidents over the past 24 hours. The ANA troops were killed and wounded in explosions and direct attacks while discharging security responsibilities in Ghazni, Helmand, Uruzgan, Wardak and Faryab province, the defence ministry said in a statement.

11/27/12 paktribune: 6 Taliban perish in Wardak operation Six Taliban were killed and their local commander held in Syedabad district of Wardak province yesterday, officials said Sunday. ISAF conducted bombardment during an operation of joint force in Baghak and Dand areas of Syedabad district yesterday, killing six Taliban fighters, a Wardak press office statement available with the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said. A Taliban commander was arrested during ground operation, it added.

11/27/12 paktribune: 2 killed, 6 wounded in Faryab Two Taliban were killed and six others, including brother of a shadow governor, were wounded in northern Faryab province, a military official said on Monday. The two-day operation was conducted in Mato and Chalgazi areas of Qaisar district, Gen. Noor Muhammad Hamid, the 209th Shaheen Corps commander, told Pajhwok Afghan.