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February 28, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CBC News: More than six years after the United States invaded to establish a stable central regime in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai's government in Kabul controls just 30 percent of the country, says the top U.S. intelligence official. Full news...
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February 23, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times: On the outskirts of Kabul stands probably the nicest prison wing between Warsaw and Tokyo — complete with security cameras, electronic locks, shaded visiting areas and UN-approved levels of natural light. Full news...
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February 20, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Candadian Press: Fed up with violence and broken promises, voters in Pakistan's conservative northwest have thrown out the Islamist parties that ruled the province for five years - a sign that Pakistanis rejected religious extremism in a region where al-Qaida and the Taliban have sought refuge. Full news...
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February 19, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Pres: A suicide car bomber killed 38 Afghans at a crowded market Monday, pushing the death toll from two days of militant bombings to about 140. The marketplace blast, which targeted a Canadian army convoy, came a day after the country's deadliest insurgent attack since a U.S. invasion defeated the Taliban regime in late 2001. The toll from that bombing in a crowd watching a dog fight rose to more than 100. Full news...
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February 17, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A suicide bomber killed more than 80 people at a picnic spot in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Sunday in the most deadly attack since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, the government said. Full news...
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February 16, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: With its fortress-like outer walls and posh interior, its sumptuous brunches and post-sauna massages, the Kabul Serena Hotel was a symbol of both progress and privilege -- a haven for foreign visitors in a harsh, unfamiliar environment and an inaccessible tower for most poor Afghans. Full news...
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February 13, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Spero News: It was supposed to be "the good war"; a war against terror; a war of liberation. It was intended to fix the eyes of the world on America's state of the art weaponry, its crack troops and its overwhelming firepower. It was supposed to demonstrate—once and for all-- that the world's only superpower could no longer be beaten or resisted; that Washington could deploy its troops anywhere in the world and crush its adversaries at will. Full news...
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February 4, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The independent: Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December. Full news...
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January 30, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Taliban militants beheaded four local employees of a private construction company in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, said the Interior Ministry in a press release. Full news...
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January 26, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Forget Renaissance Europe. The world's first oil paintings go back nearly 14 centuries to murals in Afghanistan's Bamiyan caves, a Japanese researcher says. Buddhist images painted in the central Afghan region, dated to around 650 AD, are the earliest examples of oil used in art history, says Yoko Taniguchi, an expert at Japan's National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. Full news...
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January 14, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked a luxury hotel on Monday, killing at least six people in the most brazen attack yet on Western civilians in Kabul, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said. Full news...
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January 12, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The intensity of fighting in Afghanistan is laid bare today in new figures which reveal that almost four million bullets have been fired by British Forces in less than a year - almost double the number previously reported. Full news...
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January 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New Statesman: The US and Britain claim defeating the Taliban is part of a "good war" against al-Qaeda. Yet there is evidence the 2001 invasion was planned before 9/11. "To me, I confess, [countries] are pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for dominion of the world." Full news...
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January 9, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian: Mullah Naqibullah, one of the Taliban’s top commanders, has apparently escaped from prison and given several interviews to reporters. He claims he escaped by bribing security officials. Full news...
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January 7, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WorldNetDaily: GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain knocked President Bush for failing to capture Osama bin Laden despite "opportunities over the past six years, and vowed to "get" the terrorist kingpin if voters put him in the White House. Full news...
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January 7, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Press TV: Afghan president appoints an important Taliban commander as the new governor of Musa Qala district in the north of Helmand province. Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, appointed Mullah Abdul Salam the new governor of Musa Qala on Monday, IRNA quoted Helmand Governor General, Assadullah Wafa as saying. Full news...
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January 6, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghanistan's Islamic clerics have called on President Hamid Karzai to clamp down on a burgeoning television industry which it accused of spreading "immorality and unIslamic culture." The call was made during a meeting between Karzai and dozens of clerics from an influential religious council in Kabul on Friday, an official in Karzai's office told AFP under condition of anonymity on Saturday. Full news...
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January 2, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: I bought The Kite Runner in the hope that it might provide some insights into Afghanistan, one of the many areas of the world about which much is said through the lens of the powerful, but little is seen of the actualities of the everyday lives of the people. What I read was anything but. Full news...
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January 2, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
San Francisco Chronicle: In the film “Charlie Wilson’s War,” the nitwit and deeply corrupt congressman elevated to heroic status through Tom Hanks’ ever-charming performance has a meeting with Pakistan's then-dictator Zia ul-Haq, in which they broker a deal for a joint effort to “save” Afghanistan from the Soviets. It's all great fun; the United States is, as always, on the side of the good guys, in this case the Afghan Mujahedeen, who later morphed into the Taliban, hosts of al Qaeda. Full news...
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December 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: After two years in which the violence in Afghanistan has become worse, it is hard to see signs of hope in 2008. The detailed new international commitments, and promises of more money, put forward at the London Conference in January 2006, made little headway as the war against the Taliban went into a new phase. Full news...
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December 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghanistan has ordered a top European Union official and a United Nations staffer to leave the country for threatening national security, government and diplomatic officials said. Full news...
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December 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: Agents from MI6 entered secret talks with Taliban leaders despite Gordon Brown's pledge that Britain would not negotiate with terrorists, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Full news...
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December 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Children are being recruited and in some cases sexually abused by the Afghan police and/or various militias that support the police, as well as by private security companies and the Taliban, according to human rights and provincial officials. Full news...
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December 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwak Afghan News: Residents of Wazikhwa district of the Pakthika province live in constant fear of being struck by Taliban insurgents. "Visiting this area is not without risk," says Khair Mohammad, an elderly person, standing by a deserted shop. Full news...
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November 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: UN rights chief Louise Arbour criticised Afghanistan Tuesday for stalling on a plan to address atrocities and human rights abuses committed in its more than two decades of armed conflict. Full news...
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November 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA News: Afghan security officials say Taliban militants have hanged five policeman in southern Afghanistan as a public warning to others. Full news...
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November 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: It was the coup of a lifetime for a team of young journalists from Helmand. After protracted negotiations with the Taliban, they were invited to film the insurgents' stronghold in the northern town of Musa Qala. They would be the first reporters allowed into Musa Qala since the Taliban hoisted their white flag above the district centre last February. Full news...
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November 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CTV: As Afghan police scrambled to the scene of a bomb blast Tuesday that killed five lawmakers and dozens of children, Malalai Joya, haunted by death threats and assassination attempts in Afghanistan, sat on the other side of the world, clutching a cup of tea with her eyes cast downward. Full news...
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November 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Beheaded bodies of two Afghans, who were abducted by suspected militants days ago, have been found in Rashidan district of central Afghanistan's Ghazni province, the provincial police chief said Saturday. Full news...
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October 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Children in Afghanistan are increasingly at risk as the country's security situation deteriorates and the central government's authority is weakened, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Thursday. Full news...
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