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September 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Around a third of young children in southern Afghanistan are acutely malnourished, with a level of deprivation similar to that found in famine zones, a government survey has found, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid that has been poured into the region. Full news...
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September 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: They work hard; and despite their country’s poverty and political instability, they play hard, too. Few Afghans have benefited more from the past 10 years of post-Taliban government than children, and few stand to lose more if their nation slips back under Taliban rule after US and NATO troops depart in 2014. Full news...
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September 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Stars and Stripes: The words returned to Lt. Col. Daniel Mouton months later, freighted with a new and troubling connotation. “Good people come to Muqur, but good people don’t leave,” Afghan Col. Mohammad Wasil told him this past spring, during one of their earliest conversations. “It is impossible to stay clean in Muqur.” Full news...
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September 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: On the bed of this village’s only pickup truck, three bullet-riddled bodies were laid out on Sunday, hastily wrapped in sheets. Behind the truck, several cars, their hatchbacks propped open as they bounced down the dirt roads, carried one or two bodies each. All 15 of the village’s vehicles, most of them shabby and old, joined the grim convoy, stuffed with 200 distraught relatives and 11 of their dead. Full news...
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September 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Abdul Karim was inside when the first rocket struck, killing nearly everyone in a neighboring mud-brick house. Many more rockets followed, raining down on the village as Karim and others fled for safety in the nearby mountains. Within minutes, it was over, but it was only a sign of what was to come. Full news...
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September 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: An attack by two suicide bombers just outside a U.S. military outpost in Wardak province at daybreak Saturday, Sept. 1, killed at least a dozen Afghans and wounded 58 others, according to Afghan and U.S. officials. Several U.S. soldiers were also wounded. The same military base suffered a devastating truck bombing last year on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Full news...
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