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Talks with the Taliban and a ceasefire are vital prerequisites to any dignified withdrawalNato's decade-long military intervention in Afghanistan will soon be over, but western governments will continue their generosity to that benighted country by maintaining their lavish aid programmes for many years to come. That...(more)
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A glimpse of life after Nato in Afghanistan's wild east
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President plans to deliver TV address Tuesday evening and sign agreement for US presence in Afghanistan after Nato withdrawsPresident Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign an agreement charting future relations with the country, making the secret trip on the first anniversary of the...(more)
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Isolated Afghan border area heavily regulated by shrouded 'morality police' said to surpass even hardline TalibanVillagers in the remoter parts of Afghanistan's mountainous north-east region, tucked up against the lawless border with Pakistan, have long ago adjusted to living alongside insurgents.But the Taliban enforcers who started...(more)
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Visiting French President François Hollande told President Barack Obama on Friday that France's combat troops would leave Afghanistan by year's end and pledged to find a way "for our allies to pursue their mission" in talks at a looming NATO summit. The two leaders also bonded...(more)
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DAKAR (Reuters) - A renegade Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes has begun to recruit child soldiers again to fight the government, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigation released on Wednesday.
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(05-15) 17:04 PDT Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP) -- Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in wars in Iraq...
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The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Marine Gen. John Allen, is likely to leave to become the chief allied commander in Europe early next year as the war effort moves toward its final phase, a senior U.S. defense official said Tuesday.
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Insurgent attacks killed NATO troops in Afghanistan on Saturday while a roadside bomb in the northwest killed four Afghan policemen.
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Letters and documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan suggest his grip on Al Qaeda was not as tight as the world thought.
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The Department of Defense has identified 1,934 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.
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Philip Hammond tells MPs that Afghan forces are now strong enough to allow 500 British combat troops to return homeThe first details of the UK's long march out of Afghanistan were revealed on Thursday when the defence secretary, Philip Hammond, announced Afghan forces were now strong...(more)
