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11 militants killed in operations in Afghanistan
KABUL, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Up to 11 militants have been killed and 40 others detained in the latest military operations in different Afghan provinces, authorities said Saturday. "Afghan police supporting by army and the NATO-led coalition forces carried out eight cleanup operations in Kapisa, Kunduz, Sar- e-Pul, Ghazni, Paktia, Farah and Helmand provinces, killing five armed Taliban ...
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US and Taliban talks unlikely to take place
Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between the US and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place as expected today. A source said no meeting had been scheduled and there was no date set for the talks. Yesterday, revived Afghan peace talks hit their first roadblock a day after they were announced. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his government would not join US talks with the Taliban ...
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U.S. Says Uzbekistan Russia Iran Worst For Human Trafficking
WASHINGTON -- Uzbekistan and Russia have received the lowest possible rating from the U.S. State Department in its annual report on human trafficking around the world. Along with Iran, the two countries received failing marks from Washington because their governments have not addressed -- and have no concrete plans to address -- the problem. As punishment, the United States could decide to ...
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US hails transfer of security in Afghanistan
/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday hailed the NATO's transfer of security responsibility in Afghanistan as a "critical milestone" achieved by the determination of Afghan people and sacrifices by NATO and Afghan troops. "This critical milestone is a tribute to the determination of the people of Afghanistan to take responsibility for ...
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US preconditions may scuttle talks with Afghanistan says Pakistans JUI-F chief.
Pakistan's Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has criticised the US and said that stringent preconditions could put Afghan reconciliation process in jeopardy. "Such preconditions can even scuttle the prospects of talks before any meaningful negotiations kick off," he said. "Instead, the US should take confidence-building measures that will lead to ...
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US-Taliban talks in Qatar not expected on Thursday Source
Asked if the meeting would happen on Thursday, the source replied: "There is nothing scheduled that I am aware of." Asked if that meant they would not happen today, the source added: "Yes that's correct." A senior US official said on Wednesday that talks with the Taliban were likely to be held within the next few days in Qatar, after delays caused by tensions over the ...
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No dates set for US-Taliban talks Source
Asked if the meeting would happen on Thursday, the source replied: "There is nothing scheduled that I am aware of." Asked if that meant they would not happen today, the source added: "Yes that's correct." A senior US official said on Wednesday that talks with the Taliban were likely to be held within the next few days in Qatar, after delays caused by tensions over the ...
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Taliban talks run into problems
Peace talks between the US and the Taliban, due to take place in Qatar, have already run into difficulties just a day after being ...
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Afghanistan threatens to boycott US-backed peace talks in anger at Talibans Qatar office
The United States was racing to gather up the pieces of its always fragile relationship with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan after he broke off security talks with Washington and denounced plans for the start of peace negotiations with the ...
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No US-Taliban talks scheduled State Department
Taliban after reports that discussions with the Afghan rebel group could begin this week in Qatar. "Because we're working with the Afghans on what the next appropriate step is, there isn't a meeting. I know there were reports of it, but reports of a meeting being scheduled or on the books aren't accurate," State Department ...
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Afghanistan no room for false starts and obstacles
WAM ABU DHABI: Afghan President Hamid Karzai must reconsider his decision to walk away from the negotiating table as "too much is at stake", a local newspaper wrote today. In an editorial comment, the English language Gulf News urged all stakeholders to view with "cautious optimism" the ray of hope that percolates out of Afghanistan, effected by the fact that the Taliban, ...
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US Postpones Taliban Talks Amid Karzai Fury
Talks between the US and the Taliban aimed at ending the Afghan war have been delayed for several days following anger from President Hamid ...
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Washington seeks Taliban deal as Afghanistan casualties mount
US negotiators are expected to meet in the Qatari capital of Doha this week with representatives of the Taliban, the Islamist movement that the US toppled from power nearly a dozen years ago, only to fight a war with it and other Afghans opposed to foreign occupation ever since.The talks triggered a political crisis before they even began, with US-backed Afghan president Hamid Karzai issuing a ...
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US and Taliban ‘Negotiate and fight as if there were no negotiations’
Terrorism Despite a deal to negotiate, neither the United States nor the Taliban has declared a ceasefire or a promise to stop fighting, Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis told RT. Meanwhile, the shaky peace process in Afghanistan is under threat, after President Karzai suspended talks with the US on a new security deal in response to Washington's U-turn decision to open direct ...
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U.S. tries to save peace talks after Karzai objects to Taliban’s Qatar ‘embassy’
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants. What provoked Afghanistan’s mercurial president and infuriated many of his compatriots was a ...
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Nameplate to blame for halt in Afghan-Taliban talks
Secretary of State John Kerry personally pleaded with Hamid Karzai to keep alive the possibility of peace talks with the Taliban. Over the course of two phone calls with the Afghan president, Kerry reportedly gave assurances that the U.S. would not give the Taliban political ...
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US will continue to work with India Pak Afghan Hagel
Interest rates are already coming down. So the foreigners' faith in India that India has got disproportionate allocation in emerging markets is also validating ...
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US Scrambles to Salvage Afghan Peace Talks
Top U.S. diplomats scrambled Wednesday to salvage plans for preliminary peace talks with the Taliban, after Afghan President Hamid Karzai refused to participate in the U.S.-led talks in Qatar. Mr. Karzai, apparently irked by the opening of a Taliban political office in Doha, Qatar, also canceled negotiations with Washington on a troop pact governing U.S. presence in the country after NATO ...
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Kerry Karzai Talk Over Taliban Flap
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken by telephone with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a bid to defuse a row that threatens to scuttle renewed peace talks with the Taliban. Karzai on June 19 threatened to boycott U.S.-directed talks with the Taliban and said he was suspending negotiations with Washington on a pact aimed to address U.S.-Afghan relations after 2014. Karzai’s ...
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Afghan Government Backs Away From Talks With Taliban U.S.
A day after an announcement that the Afghan government would open negotiations with the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai reversed that decision, raising objections including the Taliban's use of its formal name at its new office in Qatar. Karzai also suspended talks with the U.S. over security conditions. Jeffrey Brown ...
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Will Setback in Afghan Negotiations Affect Long-Term Prospects for Talks
A day after a breakthrough agreement on holding direct talks, Afghan President Hamid Karzai backed away from announced negotiations with the U.S. and the Taliban. Jeffrey Brown talks with The New York Times' Rob Nordland, from Doha, Qatar, for more detail on the decision and possible next ...
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U.S. scraps $7B in military items it can’t bring home from Afghanistan
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Facing a tight withdrawal deadline and tough terrain, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds worth of vehicles and other military equipment as it rushes to wind down its role in the Afghanistan war by the end of ...
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UN stresses commitment to peace building process in Afghanistan
The United Nations on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to an Afghan-led and -owned peace process.The statement came when UN deputy spokesperson Eduardo del Buey answered a question from the press about the world body's response to the proposed peace talks in Afghanistan."The United Nations maintains that long term peace in Afghanistan can only be achieved through a political ...
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Afghan leader backs away from US-Taliban talks
Afghanistan's president said Wednesday he will not pursue peace talks with the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations, while also insisting the militant group stop its violent attacks on the ground after it claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that killed four ...
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Talking to the Taliban
A logic analogous to Northern Ireland's early peace process would also begin to be played out, with US diplomats starting three years of secret meetings through diplomatic back channels to lay the basis for talks. And, like the North ahead of key turning points, an elaborately choreographed dance was this week being performed: the Taliban opened a diplomatic office ...
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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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