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Senior US General Encouraged by News of Taliban Talks
PENTAGON -- The White House announced Tuesday that U.S. representatives will open direct talks with Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, within the next few days, aimed at finding a political solution to the Afghan war. The announcement is being welcomed by the commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford. General Dunford said his forces had no ...
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British military stock left over from Afghan war being moved out
The details of what has been happening to Britain's military equipment in Afghanistan were given today as the government there assumed responsibility for security across the country and international forces embarked on the final part of their exit strategy from the ...
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Transition Opens New Opportunities in Afghanistan Region
By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service TAMPA, Fla., June 18, 2013 Afghan forces formally assuming the lead in security operations throughout their country today and U.S. and coalition forces continuing their drawdowns in Afghanistan is opening new opportunities for the United States to engage more broadly, not just in Afghanistan, but across the region, the top policy and planning ...
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Afghan troops take lead for security Karzai
KABUL--Afghan forces have taken over the lead from the U.S.-led NATO coalition for security nationwide, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai announced on Tuesday in a significant milestone in the 12-year ...
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Afghanistan Avoid and account for civilian casualties after security handover
The ANSF are obliged under international law to ensure accountability for their actions and to provide remedy for civilian casualties of military ...
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Pak Taliban other militant outfits behind MQM leaders killing Malik
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Raza Haider in Karachi was part of a plan hatched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other banned outfits to destabilise the country. Haider was gunned down in the financial capital along with his security guard by unidentified gunmen inside Jamia Masjid on Monday. Malik said outlawed ...
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United States to meet Taliban to seek Afghan peace
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The United States will meet the Taliban this week for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan, where the United States and the insurgents have fought a bloody and costly war for the past 12 years, U.S. officials said on ...
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Cameron backs US-Taliban talks
Guests arrive for the opening ceremony of the new Taliban political office in Doha on June 18, 2013. British Prime Minister David Cameron said the United States was doing the right thing by meeting with Taliban representatives after the Afghan militants opened an office in ...
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Taliban Agrees to Join Peace Talks
The Taliban said today that they are prepared to sit down for direct peace talks with Afghan and U.S. officials over the future of Afghanistan. The news comes as Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced today that Afghan security forces have taken over the country’s security lead from the U.S.-led NATO coalition. Both developments were major milestones in the 12 year war that began ...
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Afghanistan UN concerned over appointment of new human rights commissioners
Print 18 June 2013 – The United Nations human rights Office today expressed concern over President Hâmid Karzai’s appointment of five new commissioners to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), stressing that selection processes must follow agreed international standards. ';The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has asked her ...
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Taliban held secret talks in Norway to broker Doha deal
OSLO (Reuters) - The Taliban held secret negotiations in Norway over the past few months, helping yield a deal that allowed the radical Afghan rebels to open an office in Qatar, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Tuesday."We have played a key role in this process," Barth Eide told state broadcaster NRK. "It has been a strictly confidential process but we can now reveal ...
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From Afghanistan thank you Bradley Manning
An appeal from Afghanistan to whistle-blow on war From Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers Recognition that 95 million human beings were killed in World War I and II has helped the people of the world understand that the method of war is not cost-effective. An awakened world hoped the United Nations could, as determined in the UN Charter, eventually "save succeeding generations from ...
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Afghan Forces Take Security Lead for Entire Nation
By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 Afghans now are in the lead for security throughout their country, and this inflection point points the way toward a stable nation, the commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan said today. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. told Pentagon reporters via a phone hook-up from the Afghan capital of Kabul that the ...
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Afghan Taliban opens Qatar office in search of political solution
14/11/2012 18:17 CET The Afghan Taliban has announced its opened an office in Qatar to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war. Speaking at a news conference its representative Mohammed Naeem said the Islamist insurgency wanted a political solution that would bring a just government and end foreign occupation. It also wants good relations with Afghanistan’s neighbouring ...
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Handover to Afghan armed forces marred by bungled bomb attack
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his country's armed forces have assumed control of the country's security from the US-led Nato coalition. The handover of responsibility last night marked a significant milestone in the nearly 12-year war and a turning point for American and Nato military forces, which will now move entirely into a supporting role. It also opens the way for their full ...
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US Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war
KABUL, Afghanistan — In a major breakthrough, the Taliban and the U.S. announced Tuesday that they will hold formal talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan but President Barack Obama warned the process won't be quick or ...
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US Taliban to meet in Doha
Washington, June 18 : The US will meet the Taliban in Qatari capital Doha for talks on the peace process in Afghanistan, US officials said ...
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Chatter Afghanistan looks after itself
Afghanistan is officially responsible for its own security . Afghan police and soldiers formally took over from NATO troops at a ceremony this morning, marking the first time in more than 20 years that goverment forces have been in charge of maintaining security throughout the whole of Afghanistan. Analysts say the main significance of today's handover-the final step in a process begun two ...
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Afghan forces take control of country’s security
Twelve years after the Taliban were toppled from power in Afghanistan, international troops have handed over responsibility for security to the country's army. But as the ceremony took place, a suicide bomb killed three people, a reminder of the constant challenge that lies ahead. ITN's Nick Thatcher ...
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US to Meet with Taliban for Talks to End Afghanistan War
WASHINGTON, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Representatives from the United States and the Taliban will meet in the coming days for their first formal talks to try to find a peaceful settlement to the war in Afghanistan, senior US government officials said Tuesday. Speaking on the condition of anonymity during a background briefing, the senior officials from US President Barack Obama’s ...
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Taliban ready for Afghan peace talks
KABUL - The Taliban is willing to consider peace talks with the Afghan state following secret discussions, a senior Afghan official said on Tuesday, in what may be the first significant step towards an end to the long-running ...
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Video Afghan forces take the lead
Afghan forces have taken over the lead from the U.S.-led NATO coalition for security nationwide, President Hamid Karzai announced in a significant milestone in the 12-year war. Charlie D'Agata ...
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Taliban opens office in Doha to hold talks
Swarnim Sankul-I: Narendra Modi's Rs 150 crore office Built at a cost of Rs 150 crore and spread across 35,000 sq ft, the four-storey building has ...
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Key milestone US Taliban to finally meet
By Jim Miklaszewski, Courtney Kube and Erin McClam, NBC News U.S. and Taliban representatives will meet soon for the first time to begin what are expected to be long and complex negotiations for a peaceful settlement to the war in Afghanistan, senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday.The officials told NBC News that the meeting will take place in the next several days in the Qatari ...
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USA in Afghanistan To lose without losing face
In the end, ensuring the future of Afghanistan is likely to become more expensive than Washington expected, given the fact that the U.S. defense budget was reduced, and European NATO countries should comply with the policy of austerity. Since last year's presidential election, Obama administration officials say that the United States would insist on early withdrawal from Afghanistan. By 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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