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The Taliban rebels ready for the peace table
religious extremism . The Taliban emerged in the 1990s, garnering support in Afghanistan by bringing order to rural areas wrecked by warlords, before imposing their austere version of Sunni Islamic law after fighting their way to power in 1996. Television, music and cinema were banned, girls were stopped from going to school, woman had to wear the all-covering burqa and men had to grow beards, ...
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Kabul lashes out over prospective Taliban-US talks
KABUL (AFP) - The Afghan government on Wednesday lashed out at US efforts to broker peace with the Taliban, suspending crucial security talks with Washington and threatening to boycott prospective contacts with the insurgents in Qatar.Kabul issued two strongly worded statements threatening to sabotage US efforts to start talks with the Taliban, just one day after its foes opened an office for ...
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Video Obama says friction in Afghan talks no surprise
Speaking at a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Obama said it's no surprise that there's friction in early efforts to launch peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan's ...
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U.S. Defends Peace Talk Efforts With Taliban As Kabul Responds Coolly
Muhammad Naeem (right), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan, speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha on June ...
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Afghanistan suspends talks with US
The Afghanistan government made the announcement a day after the Taliban opened an office at Qatar's capital Doha on Tuesday.The US on the same day said they would hold talks with the Taliban soon."In view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the Peace Process, the Afghan government suspended the negotiations, currently ...
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25 militants killed in Afghan operations govt
Twenty-five Taliban militants have been killed and 14 wounded in a series of military operations in Afghanistan, said the country's Interior Ministry on Wednesday."Afghan National Police (ANP) with the cooperation with the army, intelligence agency and the NATO-led coalition forces conducted several cleanup operations in Kandahar, Zabul, Wardak, Ghazni, Farah and Nimroz provinces, as a ...
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Morning Brief U.S. Peace Initiative with Taliban Draws Fire from Karzai
achieved a diplomatic breakthrough Tuesday with the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar and the announcement that negotiations would begin Thursday, reviving a peace process that has been stalled for the past 18 months. But the plan quickly hit a snag. Apparently angered over the lack of preconditions for the talks, President Hamid ...
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Defense officials Four US troops killed in Afghanistan
The Afghan Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four US troops on the same day that peace talks between America and the group were ...
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Neither heat nor gloom ... Afghan post office delivers
As the Afghan government struggles to develop, the post office has quietly managed to become one of the nation's most efficient institutions - and with extremely limited international ...
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Afghanistan Rejects Talks With Taliban and the U.S.
KABUL, Afghanistan ...
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Afghan Government Suspends Peace Talks With U.S.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hands with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The Afghan government stalled the peace process with the U.S. on ...
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US-Taliban talks in doubt as Karzai fumes over flag
By Sohel Uddin and Alastair Jamieson, NBC News KABUL, Afghanistan -- Peace talks between the United States and the Taliban were thrown into doubt Wednesday – less than 24 hours after they were announced – when Afghan President Hamid Karzai angrily suspended his involvement.In a statement, Karzai accused the U.S. of "a contradiction" over its decision to meet Taliban ...
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Chatter Afghanistan slams inconsistent US peace talks
The Afghan government suspends security negotiations with the US, Brazil sends in security forces to deal with growing protests, Barack Obama prepares to be ein Berliner, and North Korea has a little Hitler ...
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Combined Force in Kandahar Arrests Taliban Leader
From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19, 2013 A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban leader and another extremist in Kandahar City, the provincial capital of Afghanistan's Kandahar province, today, military officials reported. The Taliban leader is responsible for attacks on Afghan and coalition ...
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Karzai sets new conditions for talks with Taliban
View Photo Associated Press/Rahmat Gul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks at a press conference during a ceremony at a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Afghan ...
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Afghanistan suspends discussions on coalition withdrawal after being left out of US-Taliban peace talks
Statement from President Hamid Karzai indicating breakdown in talks comes on the same day as handover of nationwide security control to Afghan ...
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Obama voices hope Afghan peace talks will go on
US President Barack Obama said Wednesday he always expected "friction" at Afghan reconciliation talks but voiced hope they could still take place despite a row over the name of a new Taliban office in Doha."My hope is that despite those challenges the process will proceed," Obama said after the Afghan government cut off security talks with Washington.Afghan President Hamid ...
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Afghan government to shun U.S. talks with Taliban
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen following a security handover ceremony at a military academy outside Kabul June 18, ...
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Video Eye Opener Four Americans killed in Afghanistan
Four American troops have been killed in Afghanistan and the country's leader walks away from talks with the United States. Also, President Obama visits a historic spot for American leaders with a new message for the world. Plus, obesity is now recognized as a disease. All that, and all that mattered, in today's "Eye ...
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Afghan president Karzai suspends talks with US
Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai suspended talks with the United States about American forces staying in Afghanistan after 2014 in protest to U.S. peace talks with the ...
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Pentagon source says four killed in Afghan attack were Americans
Four Americans were killed in a rocket attack at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan, a Pentagon source said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told CNN Tuesday the four NATO coalition members killed in the attack were all Americans. The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed the attack on Bagram but identified the victims only as "NATO ...
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Four US soldiers killed at Bagram as US seeks talks with Taliban
The Taliban killed four US soldiers at Bagram Airbase overnight, as the US sought talks with the militant group, infuriating Afghan President Hamid ...
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Afghan forces take over doubts loom
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan security forces are now officially in charge of protecting their country from the insurgents whom the U.S.-led coalition of foreign troops has been fighting here for more than 11 years, President Hamid Karzai announced during a ceremony Tuesday, even as news broke that the Taliban were opening a long-discussed political office in Qatar, clearing a potential path to ...
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U.S. meeting with Taliban nears but will new threats derail peace talks
Qatari Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali bin Fahd al-Hajri, right, and Muhammad Naeem a representative of the Taliban attend a press conference at the official opening of the Taliban office in Doha, ...
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China welcomes developments in Afghan reconciliation FM spokeswoman
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Wednesday that China welcomes the positive development of the ongoing reconciliation process in Afghanistan.Hua's comment came after the Afghan Taliban on Tuesday set up a liaison office in the Qatari capital of Doha in order to initiate talks with international organizations.The Taliban will use the Doha office to maintain contact with 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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