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Like a bad dream, the gory images have come back to haunt the land of famished fields and parched valleys veiled in dense layers of dust. Just about when the picture of a woman — covered from head to toe in a blue burqa with a narrow screen in front of...
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AP, Kabul
The top NATO general in Afghanistan on Sunday rejected the idea that NATO is losing the Afghanistan war to an increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency.
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AP, Islamabad
Pakistani tribesmen are raising armies to battle al-Qaida and Taliban militants close to the Afghan border _ a movement encouraged by the military and hailed as a sign...
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AP, Kabul
Afghanistan’s intelligence service said Saturday it broke up a Taliban plot to attack the country’s most notorious prison with a wave of suicide bombers.
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The Saudi Arabia had been asked by Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai to arrange talks with the ‘Taliban’ about some kind of power-sharing. The...
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AP, Budapest
NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to US$100 million (euro74 million) a year into the...
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AP, Budapest
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says a number of NATO countries are balking at the United States’ request that their troops in Afghanistan do more to confront drug...
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I had previously reported on the efforts of Afghani President Hamid Karzai to negotiate a truce with the Taliban than would bring them into the government. I noted then...
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AP, Islamabad
Pakistan’s new spy chief briefed lawmakers Wednesday in an unusual private session focused on the fledgling government’s fight against Taliban and al-Qaida...
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Taliban leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with the Afghan government to end the country’s bloody conflict and are severing their ties with al Qaeda. King...
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AP, Islamabad
Afghan refugees ordered out of a Pakistani war zone begged Tuesday for bus fares and flowed over the border into their homeland, worsening a humanitarian crisis...
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AP, Islamabad
Afghan refugees were flowing over the border from a Pakistani battle zone Tuesday after officials accused them of links with Taliban militants and ordered them out,...
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The crackdown on Islamic militants/Taliban has taken a new turn as local tribesmen in the Orakzai Agency, near the northwestern town of Hangu in Pakistan, have started...
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AP, Aboard A Military Aircraft
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday endorsed efforts to reach out to members of the Taliban or other militants in Afghanistan who may be considered reconcilable,...
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AP, Khar
Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban...
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AP, Kabul
Taliban representatives met with Afghan government officials last month in Saudi Arabia, a former high-level Taliban ambassador said Monday, but he denied the meeting...
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AP, Kabul
Afghanistan began registering voters Monday for next year’s presidential polls, an election likely to be the most dangerous and challenging since the Taliban were...
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The American-led NATO effort in Afghanistan has encountered tough times. The Taliban is operating a fierce insurgency. The Taliban have become so effective that Afghani...
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AP, Dera Ismail Khan
Two people wounded in a suspected U.S. missile strike in Pakistan’s northwest have died, bringing the death toll to 24 in an assault that has deeply angered the...
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AP, London
Decisive military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the Taliban may well be part of a long-term solution for the country, the senior British commander in...
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AP, Kabul
The U.S. coalition says its forces have killed five militants in two operations targeting al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.
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