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Minister confident about Afghan resources industry
Afghan mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, says his country has launched an aggressive program to develop a strong base for the governance of the mining ...
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Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that ...
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Local soldier drowns in Afghanistan
A soldier from Liberty drowned Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan, while attempting to cross a body of water during combat operations, the defense department announced ...
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Ky. veteran killed in Afghanistan blast
FORT THOMAS, Ky. - A Kentucky veteran who was working as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan has died in an explosion in Kabul that killed at least 15 people including six Americans.The father of Michael Robert Bradford, 26, of Fort Thomas and Augusta, Ga., said his son was smart, good in different sports and about to become a father.Gary "Moose" Bradford, also of Fort Thomas, told ...
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Car bombing in Kandahar gated community connected to Karzai kills 9
the Associated Press reported . There were two vehicle IEDs (improvised explosive devices)," Javed Faisal, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial ...
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US Marines pack up as Taliban wages spring offensive
Battalion, 8th Marines, patrolled hard in the mountainous, heavily disputed Kajaki Dam area of Helmand province.Between missions, they broke their remote firebase down to the nails and plywood. They were going home. Derstine’s commanders explained that this was not your usual "RIP" or swap-out with a follow-on unit. (In the military RIP stands for "Relief in Place" ...
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Soldier from Dalton killed in Afghanistan
DALTON - A Dalton man is mourning the death of his soldier son who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.Officials at Fort Bliss, Texas, said 24-year-old Army Spc. Mitchell Kirk Daehling is among three soldiers killed in the Tuesday attack.Kirk Daehling said Friday he remembers his son as someone who "just loved life He always had a smile He was proud to serve ...
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Army general who served in Afghanistan is Pentagon pick to command US troops in South Korea
WASHINGTON - An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. troops in South Korea. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the promotion of Lt. Gen. Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti at a Pentagon news conference Friday. The moves comes at a tense time on the Korean Peninsula. The North has stepped ...
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Russian-made helicopters to go to Afghanistan military
The Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport announced it will deliver 12 military transport helicopters to the Afghan army by the end of the year. The Mi-17V5 helicopters are part of a $367.5 million deal between the U.S. military and Rosoboronexport in 2011, an agreement that could be worth up to $900 million when spare parts and equipment servicing are included, the Afghan online ...
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Khaled Hosseini returns with a novel that embodies Afghan storytelling
Hosseini weaves a complex pattern of interlinked lives like a finely knotted carpet. This is a tale of separations, and of people searching for what they sense is missing. Parents get separated from their children. Brothers get separated from their sisters. Neighbours get separated from their friends. And at its heart, though much of the book takes place in Europe and the United ...
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Bombs kills 9 wound 70 in Afghanistan
At least nine people were killed and more than 70 were injured in Kandahar city Two vehicles detonated simultaneously when an Afghan police car was passing There was no claim of responsibility, the incident comes amid Taliban's spring ...
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Afghanistan bombs kill 9 in Kandahar housing complex
A young injured Afghan boy is carried by his father into the emergency room at the hospital in Kandahar on Friday after a car bomb exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. (Allauddin Khan/Associated ...
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Explosions at Pakistani mosques kill 15
Bombs at two mosques in the Malakand area of Pakistan exploded after Friday prayers, killing 15 and injuring 100, a government official confirmed. "The explosive was a timed device planted apparently among the pillows and sheets of worshippers inside the mosque," Amjad Ali, the deputy commissioner of Malakand, said of one of the blasts. The explosions shook the Bar Kalley and Jamia ...
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Deadly Car Bombs Hits Afghan South
Afghan officials say at least nine people were killed and dozens injured after twin car bombs exploded inside a barricaded housing complex in the country's restive south. Kandahar provincial spokesman Jawid Faisal said the blasts occurred inside Aino Mina, a housing complex that was developed in part by Mahmood Karzai, President Hamid Karzai's brother, on May 17. Faisal said at ...
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Bomb kills 9 inside elite Afghan housing complex
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say a car bomb has exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of President Hamid Karzai near the southern city of Kandahar. At least nine people are dead and more than 70 wounded.Kandahar government spokesman Javeed Faisal says the Friday evening blast happened inside Aino Mina, a housing complex on the northern outskirts of the ...
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Taliban leader arrested in Afghanistan
A top Taliban leader was seized during a military operation in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province Friday, officials said. The operation was carried out jointly by Afghan and coalition security forces, Khaama Press reported. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, in a statement about the operation, said: "An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior ...
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Why Afghanistan is nervous about the US troop withdrawal
A US soldier secures the area where a suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. Next year will mark the end of NATO's combat mission in Afghanistan. By December 2014 the US and other foreign troops still here will be ...
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Stepdad home from Afghanistan surprises Brevard grad
Alesha Tackett, a graduating senior at Space Coast Junior/Senior High School, is surprised by her stepfather, Eric Besvold, who returned home after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan with the U.S. Navy - Friday, May 17, 2013. (VIDEO STILL/Jerry Hume, ...
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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
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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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