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U.S. official resigns over Afghan war »
Posted by: Patience 1 month ago in News
When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to ...
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8 US Troops Die in Deadliest Month of Afghan War »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 1 month ago in Political News
Eight American troops were killed in two separate insurgent attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the war for U.S ...
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Obama stakes claim in Afghan war - Washington Times »
Posted by: monicachenoa 3 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Owning an increasingly difficult struggle in Afghanistan, President Obama told 5,000 veterans to brace for a daunting and perhaps bloody period in a war ...
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Suspected U.S. drone kills Pakistan Taliban chief\'s wife »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The wife of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was among three people killed on Wednesday in a missile strike by a suspected U.S. drone ...
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BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Afghan helicopter crash kills 16 »
Posted by: ConquistadorForLife 4 months, 1 week ago in News
A civilian helicopter crashes in south Afghanistan killing at least 16 people, with Nato saying it was not shot down.
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How the US Funds the Taliban »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
It is certainly worth asking why NCL, a company with no known trucking experience, and little security experience to speak of, would win a contract ...
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Afghan Women Trade Burqas for Chadors »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Style
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nehmatullah Yusefy's burqa sales have dropped 50 percent since the Taliban were toppled in 2001 and he says he will soon ...
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Official says Taliban Storm Hospital in Afghanistan »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months ago in Political News
Afghan officials say Taliban militants stormed a hospital in eastern Paktika province Wednesday, sparking a gun battle with coalition forces in which at least 14 ...
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new law rolls back rights for Afghan women »
Posted by: Progressive 8 months ago in Family
Hamid Karzai has been accused of trying to win votes in Afghanistan's presidential election by backing a law the UN says legalizes rape within ...
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Afghan cleric upholds oppressive sharia law »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Top Afghan Shiite cleric Mohammad Asif Mohseni speaks during a press conference in Kabul on April 11, 2009. Afghanistan's top Shiite cleric defended a ...
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US docs save burned girl, 8, victim of Afghan war »
Posted by: SeanRasmussen 5 months ago in News
The American military doctors watched in horror as the oxygen mask on the young Afghan girl's face started to melt.
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Officials: Fake Afghan poll sites favored Karzai »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
President Hamid Karzai's loyalists set up hundreds of fake polling sites where no one voted but where hundreds of thousands of ballots were recorded ...
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Pakistani Military Pushes Deeper in Militant Territory »
Posted by: The-Shark 3 weeks, 6 days ago in News
South Waziristan fighting continues as weapons, supplies, possible 9/11-linked passports seized
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German Limits on War Face Afghan Reality »
Posted by: engineer 1 month ago in News
Forced to confront the rising insurgency in once peaceful northern Afghanistan, the German Army is engaged in sustained and bloody ground combat for the first ...
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McChrystal Calls for 'Civilian Surge' »
Posted by: gbudavid 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In addition to requesting some 45,000 additional U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the country's top American military commander will ask the ...
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