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Soldiers killed after Taliban move
Four US troops have been killed in an attack in Afghanistan which came just hours after Washington announced plans to open talks with the ...
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NATO Leaves Afghanistan After Transfering Power to Kabul
Brussels, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) The NATO military forces will leave Afghanistan towards 2014 after transferring the control of the country to local authorities, said today the NATO general secretary, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The decision will be discussed in the NATO's summit to be held next weekend in Lisbon, where the strategy to withdraw near 97.000 soldiers placed in Afghanistan will be ...
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Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict
For centuries, Pashtun women have traded stories, feelings and life wisdom in the form of two-line oral poems called landays. Eliza Griswold, a journalist and poet herself, traveled to Afghanistan to learn more about daily life there through the modern exchange of poetry. Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at Griswold's ...
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Short Potent Poetry Offers Bite of Afghan Life
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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Washington gets into huddle with sworn enemy the Taliban
The United States and the Taliban cleared the decks for peace talks even as a deadly attack on US troops underlined the destructive nature of their decade-long war. US officials welcomed the Islamist insurgent group's opening of an office in Qatar to serve as a front for talks with Washington and President Hamid Karzai's Afghan administration, and said the sides would meet this week. ...
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4 Coalition Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
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ICRC office attacked in Afghanistan one guard killed
A group of terrorists attacked a provincial office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Wednesday afternoon in Jalalabad city, east Afghanistan, marking the first ever attack on the humanitarian organization in this war-hit nation. Provincial Deputy Police Chief Massom Hashimi confirmed to Xinhua that a car bomb exploded at around 5:30 p.m. local time in front of the ICRC ...
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Taliban will talk peace with U.S. and Afghan officials
New soldiers of the Afghan National Army attend their graduation ceremony in Kabul. NATO plans to end all combat operations in Afghanistan by December of next year. (Rahmat Gul/The Associated ...
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Why Taliban would talk to U.S.
CNN's Nic Robertson assesses why the Taliban would want to talk now Possibility of a grand bargain between U.S and Taliban is possible but lots of hurdles remain Taliban group agreeing to talks is the one that was in charge of Afghanistan for 9/11 attacks Taliban might think that if civil war returns to Afghanistan they may not be ...
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U.S. official 4 Americans killed at U.S. base in Afghanistan
ISAF says four NATO coalition service members have been killed ISAF did not disclose the nationality of those killed A Pentagon official says the attack happened at Bagram Air ...
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US Taliban to meet in Doha
/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON - The United States will meet the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha for a peace process in Afghanistan, US officials said on Tuesday. "The US will have its first formal meeting with the Taliban, and indeed first meeting with the Taliban for several years, in a couple of days in Doha," a senior administration official told reporters via conference ...
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Afghan forces take control of Nato security following news of peace talks
Afghan national forces will lead all military operations in the country from 19 June, President Hamid Karzai has said. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft ...
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Editorial The Taliban Agree to Talk
The Taliban, more used to lobbing mortars and laying improvised explosive devices on the battlefields of Afghanistan, used a televised address in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday to declare their interest in a negotiated peace agreement. After nearly three years of stumbling starts, the announcement counts as a breakthrough of sorts. Given ...
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Smith outlines Afghan mission post-2014
Australia will maintain an ongoing force of several hundred troops after most of the diggers come home by the end of this year, Defence Minister Stephen Smith has told parliament.Presenting possibly his last update to parliament on the mission in Afghanistan, Mr Smith said the troops remaining would include about 75 personnel, including instructors, support staff and soldiers for protection at ...
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Engagement in Direct Talks by Taliban Reflects Afghanistans Desire for Peace
As Afghan forces took control of their country's security, the Taliban agreed to join the U.S. and Afghanistan for negotiations. Gwen Ifill talks to former Defense Department official David Sedney, retired Col. David Lamm of the National Defense University and Pamela Constable of The Washington Post about this turning ...
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Taliban to Join Talks With Negotiators as Afghanistan Takes Control of Security
A breakthrough could be coming for the longest conflict in American history. Senior U.S. officials say they are scheduled to have direct talks with the Taliban and Afghan negotiators. The announcement came as international forces formally handed over full security control to Afghan authorities. Gwen Ifill ...
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Taliban announces willingness to talk with US
After 12 years fighting our nation's longest war, NATO is handing over control of national security to the Afghans and the Taliban has agreed to talks with the U.S. NBC's Duncan Golestani ...
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Dateline Doha At last it’s time for America to talk to the men from the Taliban
No more long dinners in Qatari restaurants, or idle afternoons in the capital's many shopping centres. Since they were first secretly delivered by US plane to Doha in 2010, the senior Taliban emissaries whom Washington hoped would eventually agree a peace deal with Kabul have not been rushed off their feet; efforts to kick-start a formal negotiating process to end the war repeatedly ...
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Video Afghan military officially takes control of countrys security
President Obama's plan for leaving Afghanistan reached a new milestone Tuesday as the Afghan military officially took responsibility for the country's security. The White House also said it would try again to hold peace talks with the Taliban. Major Garrett ...
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U.S. Taliban to meet in Doha
The United States will meet the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha for a peace process in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. "The U.S. will have its first formal meeting with the Taliban, and indeed first meeting with the Taliban for several years, in a couple of days in Doha," a senior administration official told reporters via conference call. The meeting comes at a ...
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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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Blast Apparently Aimed at an Afghan Politician Kills 3 in Kabul
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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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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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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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