Over 5, 200 dead and 23, 800 wounded in one week as General George McClellan attacked then retreated, somehow finding his superior numbers inadequate, utterly incapable of admitting that he was being out-smarted by the new commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E.

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The king's arrival has been welcomed not only by fellow members of the Pushtun ethnic majority, like Mohammed Ali Jalali, of the eastern province of Paktika, but even by General Wasequllah, an ethnic Tajik and former Northern Alliance commander, who has just been named a general in the new Afghan army.

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Even then, the mustachioed warriors of Iraqi Kurdistan will pay more attention to the battle unfolding on and across their northern borders between the Turkish army and Turkey's own Kurdish rebels than to any new adventures in Iraq.

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