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Four US troops killed in attack on Afghan base official
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Four American troops were killed Tuesday in an insurgent attack on Afghanistan's Bagram air base, a US defense official said, as Washington announced plans to hold talks with the Taliban.The deaths were caused by insurgent "indirect fire," either mortars or rockets, said the official, who spoke on condition of ...
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Talking with the Taliban
Muhammad Naeem (R), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan, speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha on June 18, 2013. The Afghan Taliban opened the office in Qatar to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war, saying it wanted a political solution that would bring about a just government and end foreign occupation. (MOHAMMED ...
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A Look Ahead To The Future Of Afghanistan
Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. JOHN DONVAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm John Donvan in Washington. Neal Conan is away. Of course somebody needed to mark the occasion today by setting off a bomb. It was Afghanistan, where what is hoped will be a turning point was reached today when a ...
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Afghan peace talks with Taliban at hand but not without their bumps
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, Qatar | Osama ...
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Blast Apparently Aimed at an Afghan Politician Kills 3 in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan ...
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Journalist Michael Hastings Killed in Car Crash
"We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone. Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians. He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold. Michael ...
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U.S. Taliban to formally talk peace
After more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, and nearly three years of sputtering and unsuccessful attempts at talks, the United States will open formal negotiations with the Taliban this week aimed at ending terror attacks, officials said on ...
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US Set for Negotiations With Taliban Who Want Commanders Released From Guantanamo Bay
A US Army soldier walks through a cell block at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. US military hearings on the "enemy combatant" status of 14 top terror suspects began Friday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba out of sight of the media and defense ...
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US to talk to Taliban as they open Qatar office
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US envoys will launch talks this week with the Taliban, officials announced Tuesday, in a tentative first step towards finding a negotiated escape from the decade-long Afghan war.The chance to start a dialogue came as the Islamist insurgent group opened a political office in the Qatari capital Doha to act as an embassy to its foes in Washington and President Hamid ...
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U.S. and Taliban to begin Afghanistan war talks at the movements new Qatar office
An Afghan police officer runs 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 training. (AP Photo/Ahmad ...
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Obama Hollande hold private meeting after G8
Obama said. The two leaders had a private conversation after the Group of Eight meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland. Obama, describing France as the "oldest ally" of the United States, said he and Hollande discussed a wide range of issues. On Afghanistan, they discussed the announcement that local authorities are now taking the lead on security. And they talked about ...
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Afghan Business Owners Pin Hopes On Peace Talks
Kabul-based businesswoman Hassina Syed thinks talks with the Taliban are critical for the Afghan economy. She heads The Syed Group of Companies, which includes restaurants, hotels and an export-import business. Syed tells anchor Marco Werman that as US military forces leave her country, she’s already lost the majority of her business. ';I think 60 or 75 percent of damage came up ...
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Former Afghanistan Advisor Not Optimistic About Taliban Talks
The US is to open direct peace talks with the Taliban after more than 10 years of war in Afghanistan, senior White House officials have ...
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US to hold talks with Taliban
United States envoys will meet with Taliban representatives within days, senior officials say, after the Afghan militants opened an office in Qatar to oversee peace negotiations. US-led NATO forces are still fighting Taliban guerillas on the Afghan battlefield, but the unveiling of the Islamist group's Doha mission is the most concrete symbol yet of behind the scenes moves to end the ...
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2103
As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...
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Afghanistan peace talks no surrender behind the Talibans white flowers
Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.Separated from journalists by white flower arrangements that would not have looked out of place at a wedding, two Taliban officials caught much of the world by surprise with their offer of peace talks on Tuesday.News that a political delegation would work out of an office in Qatar, first proposed two years ago, brought a glimmer of hope that a decade of ...
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A look at US-Taliban relations
Word that the Taliban and U.S. will hold formal talks to find a political solution to end nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan comes after years of failed efforts at peace talks. A look at the evolution of U.S. relations with the ...
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U.S. to hold meeting with Taliban
U.S. officials will soon hold their first formal political meeting with the Taliban in an effort to kickstart peace talks between the armed opposition and Afghanistan’s government, senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday. The talks will follow the expected release of a statement from the Taliban that it opposes "the use of Afghan soil to threaten other countries" and ...
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Canada Deploys 900 Military Personnel to Afghanistan
Ottawa, June 18 (Prensa Latina) Canada started sending 900 soldiers to Afghanistan to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to train and advise the Army and Police of that Asian country, occupied by NATO since 2001. Major Craig Butl confirmed to journalists that a first batch of 100 troops left yesterday, another 350 will leave for Afghanistan this week and the rest will do it in the next ...
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Pulling Back the Burka A Glimpse of Afghan Life Through Poetry
Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, has been covering events in Afghanistan for 20 years. He narrates a slideshow of some of his favorite ...
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U.S. Taliban to Hold Formal Peace Talks
The Taliban will join peace talks with the United States and begin negotiating with Afghan officials, leaders from both sides announced Tuesday. Those talks will take place in Qatar as early as Thursday. The goal is to find a political solution to end the nearly 12-year-old war in Afghanistan. President Obama predicted the process will be challenging and he warned the Taliban will still be ...
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Video Obama US will meet Taliban ahead of Afghan-led peace process
President Obama said the United States will meet the Taliban for peace talks in Doha, but insisted an "Afghan-owned peace process is the best way to end the violence" in a region torn apart by a bloody 12-year ...
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Taliban Opens Office For Talks with US Afghan Government
Muhammad Naeem (L), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan, speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha, June 18, ...
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Security Transfer Sparks Pride Concern Among Afghans
ISLAMABAD -- Afghans welcomed their national forces taking responsibility of security across the country, ending 12 years of US and NATO-led control. Many are concerned about the Afghan security forces’ logistic capabilities to face down violent militant networks operating in the country. Barely an hour before a simple closed door ceremony was held here in Kabul marking the transfer of ...
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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 ...
Afghanistan Feature
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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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