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Reuters
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Canadian troops have broken the back of an insurgency by Taliban militants near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the scene of fierce recent fighting, Defense Minister Gordon O'Connor said on Tuesday...
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BBC News
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Nato countries risk turning a blind eye to torture by continuing to transfer detainees to Afghan prisons, according to a report from Amnesty International.
The report cites what it calls "consistent" incidences of torture and other abuse by Afghanistan..
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SF Gate
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Katrin Fakiri's office is a constant rush of phone calls, e-mail messages, and people entering and leaving. On a wall, a framed picture of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with Fakiri and several other women hangs crookedly.
Fakiri, 35, is the direc..
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BBC News
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has begun a two-day visit to the US, where he will hold security talks with President George W Bush.
But the trip is likely to be overshadowed by the detention of 21 South Koreans by Taleban militants.
Meanwhile a medic..
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CNN
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will meet with one of his prominent critics, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, this week to discuss efforts to battle militants who have established a haven in Pakistan. Musharraf has been the target of intense criticism..
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USA Today
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A NATO vehicle rolled over a mine in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, triggering a blast that killed one soldier, the 90th foreign military fatality in a year of surging violence. The United Nations, meanwhile, said it had suspended shipments of food aid to..
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SF Gate
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave Iran his full embrace Monday, saying it has been his country's "very close friend," even as U.S. officials meeting with him here repeated their accusation that Iranian-made weapons were flowing to Taliban fighters.
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CNN
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About 4,000 artifacts seized by border police in Denmark have been returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan, the Danish prime minister said Thursday during a visit to the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The Afghan archaeological artifacts -- including coi..
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Al Jazeera
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Thousands of Afghans pushed out of Iran are living in the Afghan border province of Nimroz without shelter, angering politicians who said the ministers should have stood firm against the expulsions.
Spanta had been in the post of foreign minister just..
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Independent
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Afghan opium production rose to record levels yet again last year, the US State Department has said, in what has become an annual announcement of failure.
Despite a programme to wipe out Afghan opium production by the Americans, the British and the gov..
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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The top U.S. anti-drug official said Saturday that Afghan poppies would be sprayed with herbicide to combat an opium trade that produced a record heroin haul this year, a measure likely to anger farmers and scare Afghans unfamiliar with weed killers...
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BBC News
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Increasing numbers of Afghan women are committing suicide by setting fire to themselves to escape difficult lives, according to NGOs based in the country...
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Economist
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PESSIMISM is something of an Afghan tradition. Yet the gloom that blankets Kabul ahead of the first snows of winter is as acute as it has been since the Taliban were ejected from the city on November 12th 2001. “Already the Americans are removing their..
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Globe and Mail
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It will be at least 10 years before Afghan troops can handle national security without help from Canadians and other foreign soldiers, says a top military trainer here...
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New York Times
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A recent Central Intelligence Agency assessment found that the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, had been significantly weakened by rising popular frustration with his American-backed government, American officials say...
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Times Online
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THE first thing one notices about 16-year-old Gul Zam is her eyes, pretty and dark yet as watchful as a hunted animal’s. But then the scarf covering her head shifts slightly, exposing a livid red scar on her neck. The hands that play nervously in her la..
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BBC News
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An international women's rights group says guarantees given to Afghan women after the fall of the Taleban in 2001 have not translated into real change...
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