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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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Fly a flag for Cody Army confirms Utah man died in Afghanistan explosion
Jim Towse, father of Cody Towse, talks about his son at his home in Elk Ridge Saturday, May 18, 2013. Cody Towse was standing near an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan when it went off. The military has been unable to locate ...
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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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