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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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Interview In 78 Countries Blind Hatred Persists Against Homosexuals
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations in the countries of our broadcast area. If you are having problems listening to programs on the internet, please read ...
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Fearing Afghanistan instability Russia mulls border troops
By Amie Ferris-RotmanKABUL (Reuters) - Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow's envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview.Moscow, still sore from its disastrous, decade-long war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, is increasingly concerned by what it describes ...
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Taliban supported government has come into power in Pakistan
Lahore, May 17 : Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has said that a "Taliban supported government" has come into power after "strange elections" where both the winners and losers have staged protests against ...
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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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