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Large Blast Hits Center of Afghan Capital
Afghan police say the blast went off close to the hospital for the state intelligence service. There were no immediate reports of ...
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Suicide bomb hits Kabul as Taliban battle police
Afghan police aim their weapons after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. (AP Photo/Ahmad ...
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Aid group official says 4 wounded in Afghan attack
Afghan police aim their weapons after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. (AP Photo/Ahmad ...
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Gunbattle Inside Kabul Building Follows Large Blast
KABUL -- Reports say gunmen have taken positions inside a building in the Afghan capital after an attack that apparently began with at least two large blasts. Eyewitnesses on May 24 said that they heard heavy shooting after the explosions, which reportedly targeted a security building. The afternoon attack happened in an area where some security buildings and offices of international ...
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Next security conference in Moscow to be dedicated to situation in Afghanistan
MOSCOW, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - Afghanistan will be in the focus of the next international conference on security the Russian defence ministry plans to hold in Moscow in 2014, a source in the defence ministry told Itar-Tass on ...
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Taliban launches major attack in Kabul
Taliban fighters have launched a deadly coordinated attack on a UN compound in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off explosions and battling security forces, Reuters reported. A plume of smoke hung over the city centre after the attack was launched on Friday, eight days after six Americans, soldiers and civilians, and nine Afghans were killed in a suicide car bombing in Kabul. ...
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Several explosions rock Afghan capital
It was not clear what the attackers 'target was, but the intersection is close to UN accommodation and the headquarters of the Afghan Public Protection Force ...
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Large bomb blast heard in Afghan capital
The first blast was a suicide car bomb and occurred at about 4 pm (11.30 Irish time) near an intersection in the district of Borj-e Sharahah, said Hashmatullah Stanikzai, a spokesman for the Kabul police ...
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Taliban attack U.N. compound in Afghan capital police
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a U.N. compound in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday setting off explosions and battling the security ...
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Kabul suicide bomber strikes in heart of Afghan capital
A suicide bomber has struck in the heart of the Afghan capital, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week.There were no immediate reports of casualties and details were sketchy. The explosion was followed by a gun battle that raged an hour after the blast in the central district.Police officer Latif Khan, director of the ...
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Police Suicide bomb hits heart of Afghan capital
A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police ...
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Kabul Explosions gunfire near Indian embassy in Taliban attack no casualties reported yet
Kabul: Several large explosions hit the centre of Kabul on Friday, with Afghan police and the NATO-led international coalition unable to confirm the cause.The explosion occurred near the Indian embassy and was felt several kilometers away. But the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement that the embassy was not the target and all the Indians present in the premises are safe.Police ...
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Explosion heard in Afghanistans capital
KABUL, Afghanistan – An explosion has sent smoke rising over the heart of Afghanistan's capital. The strong blast was felt several miles away. An Associated Press cameraman who witnessed Friday's blast said it was near a hospital for the National Security Directorate, the state intelligence service. He said the blast collapsed a building wall, but was not clear if there were any ...
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Blasts shooting in center of Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) - Several large explosions rocked a busy area in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday with Reuters witnesses describing shooting in the ...
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Michael Adebolajos dangerous ignorance about Afghanistan | Richard Kemp
'My own regiment did not fire a shot in anger in Afghanistan, and protected many Iraqi Muslims from the extremist killers.' Photograph: Sgt Rupert Frere ...
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Explosion in Afghan capital sends smoke rising over downtown Kabul
KABUL - An explosion has sent smoke rising over the heart of Afghanistan's capital. The strong blast was felt several kilometres (miles) away. An Associated Press cameraman who witnessed Friday's blast said it was near a hospital for the National Security Directorate, the state intelligence service. He said the blast collapsed a building wall, but was not clear if there were any ...
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NATO chief welcomes Romania spending more on defence thanks country for role in Afghanistan
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, center, approaches Romanian President Traian Basescu, right, at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 24, 2013.(AP Photo/Vadim ...
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Combined Force Arrests Taliban Facilitator in Kandahar
From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, May 24, 2013 An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban facilitator and two other insurgents during an operation in the Dand district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province today, military officials reported. The facilitator is a vital member of improvised explosive device networks ...
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Suicide bomber strikes vehicle of Afghan religious leader killing 3 people in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Police say a suicide bomber walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan religious leader in northwestern Pakistan and set off his explosives, killing three people. The leader, Haji Hayatullah, was not harmed in the attack in Peshawar city because he was in a nearby mosque attending Friday prayers. Police officer Riaz Ali Shah says Hayatullah's driver and guard were ...
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Mass. soldier killed in Afghanistan remembered
PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Family and friends are paying final respects to a soldier from Massachusetts killed in Afghanistan.A funeral Mass with full military honors for U.S. Army Spc. Mitchell Daehling is scheduled for Friday at St. Agnes Church in Dalton. He will receive the Bronze Star and Purple Heart posthumously.Daehling was killed by an improvised explosive device May 14.The Dalton resident ...
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UK soldier killed in London in reprisal for Afghanistan and Iraq wars
The killing of drummer Lee Rigby, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, near London's Woolwich army barracks on Wednesday was a horrific act. Rigby was first run down by two men in a car, who then set about him with knives and a cleaver.One of the men who carried out the killing was identified as Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old British citizen of Nigerian descent. The other has only ...
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Woolwich attack Suspect Michael Adebolajolost friend in Iraq Drummer Lee Rigby feared for his girlfriend in Afghanistan
ONE of the men allegedly behind the brutal slaying of soldier Lee Rigby had to himself be consoled by friends in 2007 after a soldier mate was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Two terror suspects shot by police in Woolwich remain under arrest in hospital. They were named as Michael Adebolajo, originally of Romford, Essex, and Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, South East London The ...
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Obama warns of new terror threats
Sept. 11 , 2001, the country is more secure and fewer U.S. troops are in harm's way, Obama said while speaking at the U.S. Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington. However, he warned: "Now, make no mistake, our nation is still threatened by terrorists. From Benghazi to Boston, we have been tragically reminded of that truth. But we have to recognize that the ...
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Women on the Afghan frontlines to fight Taliban
Kabul: The women of Afghanistan have the worst to fear from the return of the Taliban, but not everyone is waiting for someone else to write the script of their lives. On the outskirts of Kabul, at the special forces base, we meet Najla, one of the first and few female soldiers in Afghanistan. Najla has taken part in every operation of her unit and is getting ready to fight the extremists who ...
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Intelligence Analyst Obama Made A Promise He Cant Keep
Anthony Cordesman is a former director of intelligence assessment for the U.S. secretary of defense’s office and a recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He now holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He gave RFE/RL Washington Bureau Chief Heather Maher his thoughts ...
Afghanistan Feature
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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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