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Taliban launch attack in central Kabul
CIA . A suicide car-bomb blast was followed by several other explosions as the militants exchanged gunfire with Afghan troops supported by Norwegian special forces. A Taliban spokesman said the attack was aimed at foreigners who were training Afghan security members. There was no immediate report of casualties. One witness told how security cameras helped him escape: ';An explosion ...
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President of the United States Obama said the US is fighting against the Al Qaeda and Taliban and the affiliates
President of the United States Obama said the US is fighting against the Al Qaeda and Taliban; and the affiliates WASHINGTON - President of the United States Barrack Obama said on Thursday the US is in war with Al Qaeda and Taliban and affiliated powers, not with Islam.In his speech at the National Defense University in the US capital Washington D.C., President Obama outlined the changes in US ...
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Girls were poisoned by a toxic gas sprayed at their high school in Afghanistan`s…
Girls were poisoned by a toxic gas sprayed at their high school in Afghanistan`s northern state of Balkh KABUL - 150 girls got poisoned by a toxic gas at their high school in Afghanistan`s northern state of Balkh.The teachers and students of the Kharti Khorasan Girls` High School in Mazar-i-Sharif were hospitalized after they got poisoned by a toxic gas which was sprayed at their ...
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Afghan capital attacked by suicide bombers
At least three alleged suicide bombers died in coordinated attacks Friday on Afghanistan's capital city, officials say. Clashes between the attackers and Afghan security forces were still going on mid-afternoon in Kabul, Khaama Press reported. At least two Afghan security forces and two civilians were injured, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi. Five suicide bombers had ...
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Two killed in suicide attack on Afghan religious leaders vehicle
Two people were killed in Pakistan Friday after a suicide bomber attacked a vehicle belonging to an Afghan religious leader, officials say. The driver and a bodyguard of Haji Hayatullah, a leader of the group Jamaatul Dawat Alquran and Al-Sunnah, died in the blast, Dawn News reported. Hayatullah was not in the vehicle. The attack occurred after Friday prayers near a seminary in a suburb of ...
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Taliban claim massive bomb attack in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. There were no immediate reports of casualties and details were sketchy. The explosion was followed by a gun battle that was still continuing an hour after the blast in the central ...
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3 NATO soldiers killed in S. Afghan bombing
UKABUL, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Three NATO soldiers died as a car bombing rocked southern Afghanistan on Monday, the military alliance confirmed in a ...
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Explosions Gunfire Hit Center of Afghan Capital
Two large explosions shook a busy area in the center of the Afghan capital Friday, in the second major attack in Kabul in a little more than a ...
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Large Blast Hits Center of Afghan Capital
Afghan police say the blast went off close to the hospital for the state intelligence service. There were no immediate reports of ...
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Suicide bomb hits Kabul as Taliban battle police
Afghan police aim their weapons after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. (AP Photo/Ahmad ...
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Aid group official says 4 wounded in Afghan attack
Afghan police aim their weapons after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. (AP Photo/Ahmad ...
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Gunbattle Inside Kabul Building Follows Large Blast
KABUL -- Reports say gunmen have taken positions inside a building in the Afghan capital after an attack that apparently began with at least two large blasts. Eyewitnesses on May 24 said that they heard heavy shooting after the explosions, which reportedly targeted a security building. The afternoon attack happened in an area where some security buildings and offices of international ...
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Next security conference in Moscow to be dedicated to situation in Afghanistan
MOSCOW, May 24 (Itar-Tass) - Afghanistan will be in the focus of the next international conference on security the Russian defence ministry plans to hold in Moscow in 2014, a source in the defence ministry told Itar-Tass on ...
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Taliban launches major attack in Kabul
Taliban fighters have launched a deadly coordinated attack on a UN compound in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off explosions and battling security forces, Reuters reported. A plume of smoke hung over the city centre after the attack was launched on Friday, eight days after six Americans, soldiers and civilians, and nine Afghans were killed in a suicide car bombing in Kabul. ...
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Several explosions rock Afghan capital
It was not clear what the attackers 'target was, but the intersection is close to UN accommodation and the headquarters of the Afghan Public Protection Force ...
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Large bomb blast heard in Afghan capital
The first blast was a suicide car bomb and occurred at about 4 pm (11.30 Irish time) near an intersection in the district of Borj-e Sharahah, said Hashmatullah Stanikzai, a spokesman for the Kabul police ...
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Taliban attack U.N. compound in Afghan capital police
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a U.N. compound in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday setting off explosions and battling the security ...
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Kabul suicide bomber strikes in heart of Afghan capital
A suicide bomber has struck in the heart of the Afghan capital, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week.There were no immediate reports of casualties and details were sketchy. The explosion was followed by a gun battle that raged an hour after the blast in the central district.Police officer Latif Khan, director of the ...
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Police Suicide bomb hits heart of Afghan capital
A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police ...
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Kabul Explosions gunfire near Indian embassy in Taliban attack no casualties reported yet
Kabul: Several large explosions hit the centre of Kabul on Friday, with Afghan police and the NATO-led international coalition unable to confirm the cause.The explosion occurred near the Indian embassy and was felt several kilometers away. But the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement that the embassy was not the target and all the Indians present in the premises are safe.Police ...
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Explosion heard in Afghanistans capital
KABUL, Afghanistan – An explosion has sent smoke rising over the heart of Afghanistan's capital. The strong blast was felt several miles away. An Associated Press cameraman who witnessed Friday's blast said it was near a hospital for the National Security Directorate, the state intelligence service. He said the blast collapsed a building wall, but was not clear if there were any ...
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Blasts shooting in center of Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) - Several large explosions rocked a busy area in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday with Reuters witnesses describing shooting in the ...
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Michael Adebolajos dangerous ignorance about Afghanistan | Richard Kemp
'My own regiment did not fire a shot in anger in Afghanistan, and protected many Iraqi Muslims from the extremist killers.' Photograph: Sgt Rupert Frere ...
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Explosion in Afghan capital sends smoke rising over downtown Kabul
KABUL - An explosion has sent smoke rising over the heart of Afghanistan's capital. The strong blast was felt several kilometres (miles) away. An Associated Press cameraman who witnessed Friday's blast said it was near a hospital for the National Security Directorate, the state intelligence service. He said the blast collapsed a building wall, but was not clear if there were any ...
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NATO chief welcomes Romania spending more on defence thanks country for role in Afghanistan
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, center, approaches Romanian President Traian Basescu, right, at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 24, 2013.(AP Photo/Vadim ...
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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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