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Medical care for troops in Afghanistan lags behind military growth without trained doctors
American and Afghan military medical staff carry a wounded Afghan patient on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 to a medical clinic in Nari District, Kunar Province. As Afghan forces take over fighting this year, the Afghan National Army is struggling with a shortage of doctors. (AP Photo/Kristin M. ...
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Taliban offers prisoner swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
This image from a video released by a Taliban affiliated group on Nov. 24, 2010 shows captive U.S. Army Spc. Bowe Bergdahl alongside his suspected captor, Mullah Sangeen ...
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Afghan peace plans in limbo as US placates Karzai
KABUL (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday mulled his response to US efforts to repair damaged ties after a public spat over the Taliban opening an office in Qatar for peace talks.Karzai and US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke twice by telephone after the Afghan government became enraged that the office was opened in a blaze of publicity and US officials were apparently about to ...
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Talibans Doha office to be renamed US
The Taliban office in Doha will be renamed to remove any reference to the state of Afghanistan, the United States has told Kabul, an Afghan official says.US Secretary of State John Kerry had "assured that the Qatari government has removed the name Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the Taliban office," a palace official said on condition of anonymity."It will be called the Bureau ...
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Hopeful Week In Afghanistan Turns Sour
Earlier this week, the Obama administration sounded a hopeful note on Afghanistan. It was announced that Afghan forces had taken the lead on security and that the Taliban was opening an office in Qatar, giving hope for renewed peace talks. Within hours, a Taliban attack killed four Americans and Afghan officials called off their talks with the U.S. For a look at where things stand, Renee ...
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Taliban hints at Afghan power-sharing
By Abubakar Siddique The Taliban have expressed their readiness to share power in Afghanistan a day after the hardline Islamic group opened a political office in Qatar. Mohammad Naeem, the spokesman for the Qatar office, told RFE/RL that the Taliban want to have an inclusive Afghan government. "In his speeches and statements, our leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has repeatedly said that we ...
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No sign of US Taliban peace talks in Doha
Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between US and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place on Thursday as had been expected, a source familiar with the matter told ...
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Video Why Taliban peace talks are critical to Afghanistans future
Flash Points: CBS News correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News senior national security analyst Juan Zarate about the ongoing struggle to begin peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and why you "can't see stability" in Afghanistan "until there's a political solution" that incorporates the ...
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11 militants killed in operations in Afghanistan
KABUL, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Up to 11 militants have been killed and 40 others detained in the latest military operations in different Afghan provinces, authorities said Saturday. "Afghan police supporting by army and the NATO-led coalition forces carried out eight cleanup operations in Kapisa, Kunduz, Sar- e-Pul, Ghazni, Paktia, Farah and Helmand provinces, killing five armed Taliban ...
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US and Taliban talks unlikely to take place
Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between the US and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place as expected today. A source said no meeting had been scheduled and there was no date set for the talks. Yesterday, revived Afghan peace talks hit their first roadblock a day after they were announced. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his government would not join US talks with the Taliban ...
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U.S. Says Uzbekistan Russia Iran Worst For Human Trafficking
WASHINGTON -- Uzbekistan and Russia have received the lowest possible rating from the U.S. State Department in its annual report on human trafficking around the world. Along with Iran, the two countries received failing marks from Washington because their governments have not addressed -- and have no concrete plans to address -- the problem. As punishment, the United States could decide to ...
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US hails transfer of security in Afghanistan
/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday hailed the NATO's transfer of security responsibility in Afghanistan as a "critical milestone" achieved by the determination of Afghan people and sacrifices by NATO and Afghan troops. "This critical milestone is a tribute to the determination of the people of Afghanistan to take responsibility for ...
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US preconditions may scuttle talks with Afghanistan says Pakistans JUI-F chief.
Pakistan's Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has criticised the US and said that stringent preconditions could put Afghan reconciliation process in jeopardy. "Such preconditions can even scuttle the prospects of talks before any meaningful negotiations kick off," he said. "Instead, the US should take confidence-building measures that will lead to ...
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US-Taliban talks in Qatar not expected on Thursday Source
Asked if the meeting would happen on Thursday, the source replied: "There is nothing scheduled that I am aware of." Asked if that meant they would not happen today, the source added: "Yes that's correct." A senior US official said on Wednesday that talks with the Taliban were likely to be held within the next few days in Qatar, after delays caused by tensions over the ...
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No dates set for US-Taliban talks Source
Asked if the meeting would happen on Thursday, the source replied: "There is nothing scheduled that I am aware of." Asked if that meant they would not happen today, the source added: "Yes that's correct." A senior US official said on Wednesday that talks with the Taliban were likely to be held within the next few days in Qatar, after delays caused by tensions over the ...
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Taliban talks run into problems
Peace talks between the US and the Taliban, due to take place in Qatar, have already run into difficulties just a day after being ...
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No US-Taliban talks scheduled State Department
Taliban after reports that discussions with the Afghan rebel group could begin this week in Qatar. "Because we're working with the Afghans on what the next appropriate step is, there isn't a meeting. I know there were reports of it, but reports of a meeting being scheduled or on the books aren't accurate," State Department ...
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Afghanistan no room for false starts and obstacles
WAM ABU DHABI: Afghan President Hamid Karzai must reconsider his decision to walk away from the negotiating table as "too much is at stake", a local newspaper wrote today. In an editorial comment, the English language Gulf News urged all stakeholders to view with "cautious optimism" the ray of hope that percolates out of Afghanistan, effected by the fact that the Taliban, ...
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US Postpones Taliban Talks Amid Karzai Fury
Talks between the US and the Taliban aimed at ending the Afghan war have been delayed for several days following anger from President Hamid ...
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Washington seeks Taliban deal as Afghanistan casualties mount
US negotiators are expected to meet in the Qatari capital of Doha this week with representatives of the Taliban, the Islamist movement that the US toppled from power nearly a dozen years ago, only to fight a war with it and other Afghans opposed to foreign occupation ever since.The talks triggered a political crisis before they even began, with US-backed Afghan president Hamid Karzai issuing a ...
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US and Taliban ‘Negotiate and fight as if there were no negotiations’
Terrorism Despite a deal to negotiate, neither the United States nor the Taliban has declared a ceasefire or a promise to stop fighting, Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis told RT. Meanwhile, the shaky peace process in Afghanistan is under threat, after President Karzai suspended talks with the US on a new security deal in response to Washington's U-turn decision to open direct ...
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U.S. tries to save peace talks after Karzai objects to Taliban’s Qatar ‘embassy’
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants. What provoked Afghanistan’s mercurial president and infuriated many of his compatriots was a ...
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Nameplate to blame for halt in Afghan-Taliban talks
Secretary of State John Kerry personally pleaded with Hamid Karzai to keep alive the possibility of peace talks with the Taliban. Over the course of two phone calls with the Afghan president, Kerry reportedly gave assurances that the U.S. would not give the Taliban political ...
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US will continue to work with India Pak Afghan Hagel
Interest rates are already coming down. So the foreigners' faith in India that India has got disproportionate allocation in emerging markets is also validating ...
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Afghanistan calls off talks with US
/enpproperty--> KABUL - The Afghan government on Wednesday announced that it suspended talks with the United States on the proposed security agreement, saying the United States had contradictory stance over the peace process in Afghanistan, local media reported. "The ongoing fourth round of talks between Afghanistan and the United States on the security agreement is suspended," ...
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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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