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Afghanistan News
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Afghans hope for change along with the rest of the world. Here's how the new president could really make a difference
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BRUSSELS, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- NATO Secretary General Jaap ...
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Militant attacks killed a Pakistani soldier near the crucial supply route to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan on Monday, while suspected Taliban militants bombed five schools in a nearby valley in their growing campaign against girls' education. Al-Qaida...
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KABUL, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Two explosions in ...
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KABUL, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry ...
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Pakistan temporarily closed the major supply route to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan on Monday after suspected insurgents ...
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As the world awaits the inauguration of the next US president, expectations are running high in Germany as well. But issues like Afghanistan, the environment and the auto industry are likely to cause friction soon.
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German authorities said Sunday that they believe a purported al Qaeda video in which a man threatens Germany over its military presence in Afghanistan is authentic.
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Mr. Obama will inherit a nation at war and one of his first acts as president expected to be is to discuss Iraq and Afghanistan with military leaders
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German authorities are evaluating a purported al-Qaeda video in which a speaker appears to threaten Germany over its military presence in Afghanistan.
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Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan Saturday - one by a suicide bomber who attacked the German Embassy in the capital, the other when a helicopter crash-landed under enemy fire. Six other American service members were injured.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Across the street from the Evening in Paris wedding hall, a monument to opulence surrounded by neon-lighted fountains and a five-story replica of the Eiffel Tower, is a little colony of tents where 65 families, mostly returnees from Pakistan, huddle against the winter cold and wish they had never gone home.
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KABUL, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- A military helicopter of ...
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Lingering decisions on how quickly the Pentagon can get U.S. forces out of Iraq and into Afghanistan are being pushed off until after the Obama administration takes over next week, as military commanders wrangle over where the troops are needed most.
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Two U.S. service members are dead in separate attacks in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide car bomb attack Saturday on a heavily guarded road between a U.S. military base and the German Embassy in the Afghan capital killed one U.S. service member and four Afghan civilians, officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide car bomb attack Saturday on a heavily guarded road between the German Embassy and a U.S. military base in the Afghan capital killed one U.S. service member and four Afghan civilians, officials said.
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Lingering decisions on how quickly the Pentagon can get U.S. forces out of Iraq and into Afghanistan are being pushed off until ...
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BISHKEK, (AFP) - Kyrgystan will order the closure of a US military airbase used to support operations in Afghanistan "in a matter of days" under pressure from Russia, a senior Kyrgyz official told AFP.
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In a sign of things to come, the US defense department announced on Friday that a military construction crew is bound for Afghanistan instead of the Iraq war.
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An investigation has been launched into whether two British soldiers, who were killed this week in Afghanistan, died as a result of "friendly fire".
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Two British servicemen killed in an explosion in Afghanistan's Helmand Province have been named.
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When Barack Obama takes office next week, he'll inherit an increasingly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. A troop increase has already begun, but some question the signals that strategy sends. In addition, analysts urge Obama to take a regional approach.
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George Bush has left a dismal legacy, but Barack Obama can do much to repair the damage
SHORTLY after midday on January 20th, Barack Obama will sit for the first time at the desk where the buck stops. The American presidency is always the world’s hardest and most consequential job, but it seems particularly so this month. A global recession of a severity not seen for perhaps 80 years; a new war in the Middle East and old ones in Africa; missions very far from accomplished in Iraq and Afghanistan; a prickly Russia and a rising China. These international challenges must jostle for the president’s attention alongside noisy domestic concerns like rocketing unemployment, the desperate need for a better health-care system, exploding deficits and failing cities. The burdens, surely, are too many for one man to bear.
Yet neither America nor the world seems to see it that way. A crowd of 2m or more is making its way to Washington, DC, to witness the inauguration of Mr Obama. Billions more will watch it on television. All will do so in a spirit that has been missing for a while—one of optimism. This is not just because a presidency knocked sideways by the events of September 11th 2001, is ending. Next week’s inauguration also bears witness to America’s awesome power of self-renewal. Because he is young, handsome and intelligent, and also because as the child of a Kansan and a Kenyan he reconciles in his own person one of the world’s most hateful divisions, Mr Obama carries with him the hopes of the planet. ...
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One survey shows liberty shrivelling; another names the “spoilers”
WHETHER your purpose is to promote freedom, to curb it, or to quibble about its definition, the reports of Freedom House, an American lobby group, make good reading. The new 2009 edition paints a sombre picture of how the world fared during George Bush’s time in office. An initial five years of improvement were followed by a three-year decline—less in 2008 than previously, but still disappointing. Russia’s rigged elections and cowed media attract particular criticism in the gloomy ex-Soviet section. Though Iraq posts a slightly better score, Afghanistan shifts from “partly free” to “not free” in Freedom House’s broad three-category system. The Middle East and north Africa region—the centrepiece of Mr Bush’s efforts to promote freedom—showed little measurable improvement over the previous year.
More widely, the number of “electoral democracies” (those with tolerably free and fair elections) dropped by two, to 119 (thanks to four demotions and two promotions). The general trend was down too, with declines in freedom of expression and association, and a weaker rule of law. ...
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