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October 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Helmand, with a population of 1.4 million and an area roughly the size of Switzerland, is among the largest of Afghanistan's southwestern provinces. Its vast expanse of desert and arid mountains border Pakistan and stretch to within 100 kilometers of Iran. At the heart of the battle for Afghanistan's future, Helmand also is inarguably the country's most troubled province. Full news...
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October 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: A woman and child were among the civilians killed in a raid by a US-led coalition force against a Taliban hideout in Afghanistan, officials say. The coalition said its forces responded to an attack by destroying the building in which militants were hiding. Full news...
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October 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Dawn: A US congressional panel was warned on Thursday that the Bush administration's Afghan policy had totally failed and Afghanistan was on its way to be lost forever. Full news...
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October 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP via CNN: Violence in Afghanistan has surged this year with suicide bombings inflicting an especially high toll on civilians, a new United Nations report says. The report said Afghanistan is averaging 550 violent incidents a month, up from an average of 425 last year. It said three-fourths of suicide bombings are targeting international and Afghan security forces, but suicide bombers also killed 143 civilians through August. Full news...
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October 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned the hanging of a teenager boy by Taliban insurgents in Sangin District of volatile Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. Full news...
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September 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The International Herald Tribune: A suicide bomber wearing an Afghan military uniform detonated his explosive belt near a bus full of Afghan soldiers on their way to work here in the capital Saturday, killing at least 30 people, including two civilians, officials said. The bombing was among the deadliest in Afghanistan this year. Full news...
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September 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: NATO warplanes killed six Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, in an air strike during a battle with Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, a district governor told AFP Friday. Full news...
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September 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Newsday.com: Nearly six years after the United States toppled the Taliban regime in the wake of Sept. 11, Nuristan, like the rest of the country, has no effective government. For this province half the size of New Jersey and home to about 750,000 people, Gov. Tamim Nuristani is authorized 300 police officers -- barely more than the number assigned to a typical Long Island precinct. When he begged to hire 180 men as auxiliary cops last year to help stop guerrillas infiltrating from neighboring Pakistan, the government agreed, but then said it had no money for salaries and fired them. Full news...
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September 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: South Korea paid Afghanistan's Taliban more than $20 million to release 19 missionaries they were holding hostage, a senior insurgent leader said on Saturday, vowing to use the funds to buy arms and mount suicide attacks. Full news...
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August 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
EurasiaNet: Two men from one family were dragged from their home in Paktia Province on August 19 and beheaded, Pajhwak Afghan News reported. The attack occurred around midnight in the village of Abdal in Zurmat district, according to Din Mohammad Darwesh, a spokesman for the provincial governor. Full news...
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August 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times of India: Close on the heels of a US intelligence report of a resurgence of Taliban in Pakistan's border areas, newly declassified documents reveal that Islamabad was directly involved in funding, arming and advising the militant group. Full news...
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August 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Herald Tribune: On the eve of his Camp David meeting with President George W. Bush, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan painted a bleak picture of life in his country, saying that the security situation had worsened and that the United States and its allies were no closer to catching Osama bin Laden than they were a few years ago. Full news...
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August 4, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world's near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say. Full news...
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August 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA News: Afghan officials and residents say civilians are among the dead and wounded following U.S. coalition airstrikes in southern Afghanistan. Full news...
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August 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Taliban have executed the four judges they had kidnapped from Andar district of Ghazni last week. Their bodies were retrieved by police in the district this morning, officials told Pajhwok Afghan News on Wednesday. The slain also included a senior official of the Paktika courts. Full news...
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July 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Taliban kidnappers shot dead a male South Korean hostage on Monday, a spokesman for the group said, accusing the Afghan government of not listening to rebel demands for the release of Taliban prisoners. Full news...
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July 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Earth Times: Erstwhile enemies who once stood on the brink of war, Iran and the Taliban now appear linked by conflicts against the US, as officials and political analysts accuse Tehran of training and arming the Afghan insurgents. Full news...
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July 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: A suicide bomber targeted a NATO patrol in a marketplace filled with children Tuesday, killing 13 elementary school students and at least four other people. The U.N. and NATO quickly condemned the attack for harming so many civilians. Full news...
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July 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Middle East Times: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai Sunday ordered a probe into civilian casualties from a foreign military airstrike three days ago, which elders said had killed at least 45 villagers. The elders said they had recovered the bodies of 45 civilians, mostly women and children, from the airstrike Friday, which was aimed at Taliban fighters in Girishk town in Helmand province, district chief Dur Alisha said. Full news...
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June 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: An enormous bomb ripped through a police academy bus at Kabul's busiest transportation hub Sunday, killing at least 35 people in the deadliest insurgent attack in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. The Taliban claimed responsibility. Full news...
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May 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Taliban insurgents and armed Afghan groups are processing opium in makeshift laboratories to maximise drug profits and better fund the fight against Western forces, a top US drug official said on Monday. Full news...
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May 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Britain's defense minister said Tuesday there was some indication that Iran may be helping Taliban forces fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan. Full news...
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May 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: The war-era weapons were being smuggled from northern parts to the restive southern zone, said an official of the Disarmament of Irresponsible Armed Groups (DIAG) programme in Balkh on Sunday. Full news...
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May 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deccan Herald: According to an official report, 51 villagers died during a US-led operation against Taliban militants in western Afghanistan. Afghanistan can no longer accept or understand civilian deaths, President Hamid Karzai said, after officials reported that 51 villagers died during a US-led operation against Taliban militants in western Afghanistan. Full news...
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April 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan's Taliban movement has used a 12-year-old boy to execute a man accused of helping U.S. forces hunt down and kill one of its top commanders in December, Al Arabiya television reported on Saturday. Full news...
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April 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: U.S. forces in Afghanistan recently intercepted Iranian-made mortars and other weaponry in Afghanistan, although it is not clear they were shipped directly from Iran, the military's top general said Tuesday. Full news...
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April 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: The United Nations and two prominent human rights organisations have raised grave concerns about the increasing number of civilians affected in armed conflicts in Afghanistan. On Monday, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on the dramatic rise in civilian casualties during insurgent attacks in Afghanistan. Full news...
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April 11, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: President Karzai may have helped save the Prodi government by trading Taliban prisoners for an Italian hostage, but in the process, he has damaged his own credibility at home. Full news...
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April 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Scotsman: ITALY'S government paid a ransom of £1 million to the Taliban to free an Italian photographer taken hostage in Afghanistan, an aid group has claimed. Full news...
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April 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the world's most fertile opium-producing region. It appeared to be the biggest combat loss for foreign troops in Afghanistan since 2005. Full news...
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