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US Taliban to start talks on ending war in Afghanistan
Afghan security forces members stand guard at the site of a blast near the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June, 18, 2013. The large bomb exploded in the Afghan capital on Tuesday as the international military coalition hands over responsibility for fighting the Taliban insurgency to the nascent national army and police they have been ...
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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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US to meet with Taliban as militants open Qatar office
KABUL (AFP) - US officials said Tuesday that they hoped to meet the Taliban within days, after the insurgents opened an office in Qatar and the Afghan government took control of nationwide security from NATO.The Islamist militia, which has been fighting against US-led NATO troops and the Afghan government for 12 years, broke off initial contacts with the Americans last year and have refused to ...
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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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U.S. and Taliban to hold Afghanistan peace talks
-- In a major breakthrough, the Taliban and the U.S. announced Tuesday that they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan as the Islamic militant movement opened an office in ...
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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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U.S. Direct talks with Taliban to begin Thursday
Afghanistan will begin Thursday in Qatar, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday. The talks between American and Afghan representatives and a delegation approved by Taliban leader Mohammed Omar could breath new life into hopes for a political solution to the Afghan conflict, which have been on life support for nearly three years, The Washington Post reported. Senior administration officials, ...
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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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Officials US Taliban to open direct dialogue
US officials on Tuesday said that the first formal meeting involving US and Taliban representatives is scheduled to be held next week in Doha.A senior Taliban official said on Tuesday no date had been agreed for talks in Qatar on ending Afghanistan's 12-year-long war, after US officials said they would meet representatives of the Islamist insurgency next week in the Gulf ...
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UPDATE 1-Britains Cameron says U.S. is right to talk to Taliban
Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:01pm EDT ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland, June 18 (Reuters) - The United States is right to decide to hold peace talks with the Taliban on Afghanistan, although the process will be difficult, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. U.S. officials said earlier that the first formal meeting involving U.S. and Taliban representatives is scheduled to be held next week ...
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US agrees to talks with Taliban
al Qaida . Formal meetings will begin within days.The decision was a reversal of months of failed efforts to start peace talks while Taliban militants intensified a campaign targeting urban centres and government installations.In Doha a Taliban spokesman said the group opposes the use of Afghan soil to threaten other countries and supports the negotiating process, two key demands of both the US ...
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Obama New Taliban office an important first step
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the opening of a Taliban political office in Qatar is an important first step toward reconciliation between the Taliban and Afghanistan's government. But he says the process won't be quick or easy. He's predicting there will be bumps along the ...
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United States Taliban to start talks in Qatar office
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a major breakthrough, the Taliban and the U.S. announced Tuesday that they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan as the Islamic militant movement opened an office in ...
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U.S. commander in Afghanistan skeptical Haqqanis will reconcile
Doha for peace talks. "All I've seen of the Haqqani would make it hard for me to believe they were reconcilable," General Joseph Dunford told Pentagon reporters, speaking by phone from Kabul. Earlier on Tuesday, a senior U.S. official said the Haqqanis - widely considered the most dangerous U.S. foe in Afghanistan - would be represented by the Taliban delegation in Doha. ...
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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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