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2010 is the tenth and deadliest year in Washington’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for targeted assassinations and untargeted “collateral damage.”

Feb. 28 (BBC News) - A roadside bomb has killed 11 civilians in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, officials say.

Feb. 22 (BBC News) - US-led forces fighting to clear a Taliban stronghold in south Afghanistan are making "steady progress", the US' most senior US military commander says.

Feb. 22 (Al Jazeera) - At least 15 people have died after a suicide bomber blew himself up among a tribal leaders and government officials meeting recently returned Afghan refugees in eastern Nangarhar province.

Feb. 21 (BBC News) - The current offensive around the southern Afghan town of Marjah is the initial operation of a long campaign, the head of US Central Command says.

Feb. 21 (Al Jazeera) - Pakistan's latest moves against Taliban fighters on their territory have been hailed by the United States, but others have questioned whether the increased co-operation is a ploy by Islamabad to assert its position as a key player in negotiations with the movement.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (Dawn) - US President Barack Obama has reviewed the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan with his senior officials and diplomats as his administration continues a two-pronged offensive to subdue militants in that region.

Feb. 17 (Times Online) - The White House has hailed the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar as a significant win in efforts to deny the Taleban a safe haven in the lawless tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistan frontier.

LONDON, Feb. 16 (Montreal Gazette) -  Amnesty International appealed Tuesday to NATO forces involved in a major assault in southern Afghanistan and their Taliban opponents to protect civilians caught up in the conflict.

As the strategy in the war in Afghanistan is re-designated from counterterrorist to counterinsurgency, the United States continues its thirty-year war in the country. In doing so the US risks falling into the very trap it meant to set for the Soviet Union so many years ago.