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Russia Counting on UN for Post-ISAF Afghanistan Proposals
SOCHI, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow is counting on the UN to develop proposals regarding the international presence in Afghanistan after 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. "We consider it important to start discussing in advance what forms of [international] presence there will be in Afghanistan after 2014; we will count on the proposals that the [UN] ...
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Afghanistan suicide blast targeting NATO convoy kills 2 U.S. troops 4 American contracters
KABUL, Afghanistan A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing two U.S. troops and four American civilian contractors, U.S. and NATO officials confirmed. Eight Afghans civilians also died in the explosion and more than 30 were wounded, according to a senior Afghan police official. Cmdr. Bill Speaks, a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Secretary, confirmed ...
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Afghan Women Harassed into Unemployment
- While global attention is fixed on the scheduled pullout of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan in 2014, women here have a much more immediate concern: how will they survive another day at ...
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Combined Force Arrests Taliban Leader in Baghlan Province
From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, May 17, 2013 A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior Taliban leader in the Baghlan-e Jadid district of Afghanistan's Baghlan province today, military officials reported. The senior leader oversees insurgent cells responsible for attacks against Afghan and coalition ...
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Photos Soldiers train for Afghanistan
Soldiers walk away from the firing line to reload their weapons and magazines. Task Force 2-13 live ammunition weapons training at the CFB Edmonton Range. In all 700 soldiers from Land Force Western Area will deploy to Kabul, Afghanistan as part of Operation ...
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CSTO countries to help Tajikistan secure its border with Afghanistan after ISAF withdrawal
MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) - Member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will offer all possible help to Tajikistan to ensure security at its borders after the withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from Afghanistan, CSTO secretary general Nikolai Bordyuzha told journalists on ...
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Talk Khaled Hosseini on How the Iraq War Hurt Afghanistan
In your new book, ...
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Interview In 78 Countries Blind Hatred Persists Against Homosexuals
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations in the countries of our broadcast area. If you are having problems listening to programs on the internet, please read ...
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Fearing Afghanistan instability Russia mulls border troops
By Amie Ferris-RotmanKABUL (Reuters) - Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow's envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview.Moscow, still sore from its disastrous, decade-long war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, is increasingly concerned by what it describes ...
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Taliban supported government has come into power in Pakistan
Lahore, May 17 : Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has said that a "Taliban supported government" has come into power after "strange elections" where both the winners and losers have staged protests against ...
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Edmonton troops ready themselves for last deployment to Afghanistan
Soldiers unload the magazines of their 9mm handguns at the firing line during live ammunition weapons training at the CFB Edmonton Range. In all 700 soldiers from Land Force Western Area will deploy to Kabul, Afghanistan as part of Operation ATTENTION. Video by Shaughn ...
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Video Are Afghan troops ready to take over
American combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan after next year and are training Afghans to take over security. Charlie D'Agata caught up with one unit who are allowing the trainees to take the lead on daily foot ...
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Afghan soldiers incompetence raises concerns about U.S. withdrawal plans
causing a massive explosion . Six Americans died: Two soldiers and four civilian contractors. Nine Afghans were also killed. Islamic militants claimed responsibility. American combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan after next year and are training Afghans to take over security. But are they ...
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Are Afghan soldiers too incompetent to be on their own
causing a massive explosion . Six Americans died: Two soldiers and four civilian contractors. Nine Afghans were also killed. Islamic militants claimed responsibility. American combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan after next year and are training Afghans to take over security. But are they ...
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Afghanistan seeks enhanced military help from India
The government has so far been reluctant to offer more military help to Afghanistan restricting itself to mostly training Afghan military staff in India ...
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Afghan woman recounts how U.S. soldier killed her husband in rampage
Rafiullah, 16, talks in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Sunday, April 21, 2013 about a pre-dawn attack last year in a southern Afghan village, when he says a U.S. soldier burst into his family's house. Rafiullah remembers the soldier smashing through the door waving his pistol. Awakened in a room with his grandmother and his sister, Zardana, Rafiullah said they didn't know what to do. ...
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6 Americans die in suicide blast in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide car bombing on Thursday tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul, killing at least 15 people -- including six Americans -- in a blast so powerful that it rattled the other side of 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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