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Taliban We killed 4 U.S. troops at Afghan air base
KABUL, Afghanistan The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack in Afghanistan that killed four American troops just hours after the insurgent group announced it would hold talks with the U.S. on finding a political solution to ending the nearly 12-year war in the country. The deadly attack underscores the challenges ahead in trying to end the violence roiling Afghanistan via peace ...
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US-Taliban talks set to begin
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Nearly 12 years after the United States ousted the Taliban from power, the White House announced on Tuesday that the US will begin formal talks with the militant Islamist group in Qatar later this week as part of Afghanistan's national reconciliation process. The announcement, which coincided with ceremonies marking the formal transfer of primary security ...
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Taliban Claim Killing of 4 US Troops
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four U.S. troops in Afghanistan, hours after the U.S. announced it was opening formal talks with the insurgent ...
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Taliban defy peace bid with deadly attack on Americans
KABUL (AFP) - The Taliban on Wednesday claimed an audacious attack in Afghanistan that killed four US troops mere hours after Washington said it would talk to the insurgents about ending more than a decade of war.The deadly rocket attack on Bagram, Afghanistan's biggest US-led military base just north of Kabul, was a stark reminder of the potency of an Islamist insurgency that has time and ...
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U.S. Journalist Known For Afghan Iraq Work Dead At 33
The American award-winning war correspondent Michael Hastings, who authored notable articles and books about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been killed in a car accident in Los Angeles. He was 33. The news website BuzzFeed, for which Hastings wrote, said he died early on June 18. Hastings is known for a 2010 profile in "Rolling Stone" magazine of General Stanley ...
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Taliban admits attack on air base
Kabul , on Tuesday evening. American officials confirmed the base had come under attack by indirect fire - likely a mortar or rocket - and that four US troops were killed.The attack came just hours after the Taliban opened a political office in the Qatari capital ...
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Taliban attacks Bagram Air Base following Obama statments
A U.S. soldier at Bargram Air Base, about 60km from Kabul. (Photo courtesy: U.S. Air Force) The Taliban on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the killings of four U.S. forces in an overnight attack on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, just hours after ...
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Soviets find Afghan rebels no pushover From the archive 19 June 1980
Afghanistan and wipe out the guerrillas in the mountains, the Soviet Union would need an estimated force of 250,000 to 400,000 combat troops, according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Even this, its annual Strategic Survey, published yesterday, concludes, "would not be enough to ensure success."The Soviet Union's "swift and effective entry into ...
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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
KABUL, 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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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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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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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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