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Riyadh strives to avoid Afghan-style blowback from conflict
RIYADH: Chastened by the experience of Afghanistan, where hundreds of Saudis fought before returning to sow terror at home, the kingdom is battling to avoid similar blowback from the conflict in Syria, analysts say.In recent months, Saudi officials have issued increasingly stern warnings against volunteers from the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom heading off to fight alongside the mainly Sunni ...
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Obama submits request to lower Afghan war funding to USD79.4b
(MENAFN) In order to lessen the US presence in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama lowered his funding request for the war in the country and other operations abroad to USD79.4 billion, reported Reuters.The new funding is 10 percent lower than the original request of USD88.5 billion to finance overseas contingency operations in fiscal 2014, which will start on October 1.According to National ...
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Canadian military gear stranded in Afghanistan
Canadians soldiers load baggage at Kandahar airbase in 2011. Hundreds of shipping containers filled with military supplies remain stranded in Afghanistan. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated ...
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Taliban attacks kill 10 police in Afghanistan
KABUL // Taliban attacks killed at least 10 Afghan police yesterday, officials said, in the latest violence against the force, which is due to take more security responsibility from Nato troops before next year's withdrawal. In one incident, Taliban fighters attacked a security check post in the Muqur district of Ghazni province in southern Afghanistan, killing six police, according to the ...
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Afghan helicopter crews learn air assault tactics as their troops take lead in combat
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - With Afghan troops increasingly leading combat operations on the ground, the Afghan Air Force's fledgling helicopter fleet based in Kabul has learned new techniques to support them from the air. The U.S. Army's 101st Combat Aviation Brigade started a new training program at Bagram Air Field for Afghan helicopter pilots to learn how to perform air ...
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Afghanistan India to Discuss Military Aid
A spokesman for the Afghan president says Mr. Karzai will ask for assistance for the strengthening of the country's military and security institutions. Afghanistan and India signed a strategic partnership in 2011 which included India's training of Afghan forces as they prepare to takeover security from foreign troops in 2014. Pakistan has also offered a strategic partnership ...
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Hundreds of shipping containers with Canadian military supplies stuck in Afghanistan
Two Canadian soldiers walk into the Christmas Day sunset at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009. (Colin Perkel / THE CANADIAN ...
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Girls were poisoned by a toxic gas sprayed at their high school in Afghanistan`s northern state of Balkh
Girls were poisoned by a toxic gas sprayed at their high school in Afghanistan`s northern state of Balkh KABUL - 150 girls got poisoned by a toxic gas at their high school in Afghanistan`s northern state of Balkh.The teachers and students of the Kharti Khorasan Girls` High School in Mazar-i-Sharif were hospitalized after they got poisoned by a toxic gas which was sprayed at their ...
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3 NATO soldiers killed in S. Afghan bombing
UKABUL, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Three NATO soldiers died as a car bombing rocked southern Afghanistan on Monday, the military alliance confirmed in a ...
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Afghanistan to ask India for military aid
KABUL, Afghanistan An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India's archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan when he visits New Delhi starting Monday. He added that Karzai ...
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At least six Afghan police officers dead in Taliban fighting
At least six Afghan police officers died and four others were injured Sunday in clashes with Taliban militants in Ghazni province, officials said. Moqor District Gov. Sahib Khan Elham said an unknown number of Taliban militants attacked Afghan police at checkpoints in the district. The Taliban suffered casualties as well, although an exact number of killed and injured was not reported, Khaama ...
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Boko Haram - African version of Taliban
In Syria, they are chewing the hearts of cadavers; on Indian border they are beheading the soldiers and in the US they are exploding the cooker bombs. How could Africa lag behind when all the continents are on fire? So the richest and most advanced country of this continent after South Africa, namely Nigeria got it in the form of 'Boko ...
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Divisive womens law overlooked by Afghan Parliament
The country's Parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women. President Hamid Karzai approved the law by decree in 2009 and Parliament's endorsement was required. But a rift between conservative and more secular members of the assembly resulted in debate being deferred to a later date. Religious members objected to at least eight articles in the ...
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Why should American troops remain in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is widely regarded, even by its own people, as a puppet state, and has little hope of breaking away from US influence in the foreseeable future, there is wide-spread resentment toward foreign troops, and increasingly loud calls in the states for a withdrawal of troops. But, like or not, these two countries have been tied together irrevocably, even before the war on terror.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001, the country’s destiny has in many ways not been its own. Read more
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