Below follows a selection of the latest news items from the
sections above.
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Dec 23:
Taliban's Omar rejects reports of peace formula, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters
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Dec 23:
FACTBOX-Security developments Dec 23, Reuters
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Dec 22:
Indications children being hit hard by pneumonia, IRIN
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Dec 22:
NATO to engage tribes in Taliban fight, Golnar Motevalli, Reuters
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Dec 21:
Extra U.S. troops aim for "tipping point", Jon Hemming, Reuters
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Dec 21:
Allies must follow US in boosting Afghan forces-NATO, Reuters
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Dec 21:
US 'can talk to some elements of Taliban', The Telegraoh
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Dec 21:
Taliban Unimpressed by Promised US Surge, Antiwar.com
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Dec 21:
What Motivates the Torture Enablers? Scott Horton, Harpers Magazine
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Dec 21:
Taliban chief proposes formula to end Afghanistan crisis, Hindustan Times
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Dec 20:
Q & A: Hamid Karzai, The Chicago Tribune
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Dec 19:
Soviet failures echo for US, Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor
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Dec 18:
Iran called upon to halt winter deportations, IRIN
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Dec 18:
Pakistani Islamists call for block on U.S. supplies, Zeeshan Haider, Reuters
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Dec 18:
Kabul residents have more fear of gangs than of Taliban, Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers
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Dec 17:
Islamists not main suspects in Paris probe-minister, Reuters
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Dec 17:
Rural Afghans Resistant To Official Judicial System, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, National Public Radio
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Dec 17:
Afghanistan must not replicate Iraq road map, Christian Aid / Reuters
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Dec 17:
“Local integration” key to internal displacement, IRIN
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Dec 16:
'Charmak' disease still killing people, livestock in west, IRIN
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Dec 16:
Cheney defends waterboarding use, Al Jazeera
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Dec 16:
UK troop casualties surge, Jonathon Burch, Reuters
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Dec 16:
Taliban Courts Filling Justice Vacuum, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, National Public Radio
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Dec 16:
Rough Road Ahead For Legal System, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, National Public Radio
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Dec 16:
No relief in sight for war-wracked Afghanistan, Thibauld Malterre, AFP
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Dec 15:
UN commits to preserving mass grave sites, IRIN
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Dec 15:
US costs of Iraq, Afghan wars top $900 bln, David Morgan, Reuters
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Dec 15:
Pakistan haulers refuse to take supplies to Afghanistan, The New Nation / AFP
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Dec 15:
Pleas of Afghan ex-poppy farmers, Bilal Sarwary, BBC
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Dec 14:
Envoys discuss Afghan troubles, Al Jazeera
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Dec 14:
NATO looks to north Afghan neighbours for supplies, Golnar Motevalli, Reuters
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Dec 14:
Taliban Raids on NATO Convoys Crippling - Analysts, Zofeen Ebrahim, IPS
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Dec 14:
Afghans torn over family size, James Palmer, San Fransisco Chronicle
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Dec 14:
Taleban tax: allied supply convoys pay their enemies for safe passage, Tom Coghlan, Times
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Dec 12:
Afghan improvised roadside blasts rise sharply, Reuters
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Dec 12:
Lancet: Dozens of nations inflated vaccine numbers, Maria Cheng, AP
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Dec 12:
Physicians for Human Rights Calls for Probe into Removal of Mass Grave, Press Release Web
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Dec 12:
Kandahar Schools Empty After Acid Attack on Girls, Mohammad Ilyas Dayee, IWPR
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Dec 11:
Saudi Arabia and the Future of Afghanistan, Council of Foreign Relations, Greg Bruno
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Dec 11:
U.S. Senate report ties Rumsfeld to Abu Ghraib abuse, David Morgan, Reuters
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Dec 11:
US aims for more troops, Gates says, Andrew Gray, Reuters
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Dec 10:
Report Confirms Torture at Guantanamo, Becky Akers, The New American
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Dec 10:
Warlords Toughen US Task in Afghanistan, Aryn Baker, Time
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Dec 10:
U.S.-led forces kill 7 Afghans in friendly fire, Reuters
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Dec 10:
Drug producers, smugglers under pressure? IRIN
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Dec 9:
Villagers bombed in August still living with relatives, IRIN
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Dec 8:
Mullah Omar calls on Afghans to boycott election, Antara
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Dec 8:
Taliban in 72 pct of Afghanistan, think-tank says, Jon Hemming, Reuters
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Dec 7:
Taliban urges Western troops to leave, Golnar Motevalli, Reuters
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Dec 7:
US to deploy new forces south of Kabul to protect capital, AFP / Sydney Morning Herald
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Dec 7:
Official Calls for Sensitivity to Afghan Demands, Kirk Semple, New York Times
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Dec 4:
Weapons cache discovery underscores risks to civilians, IRIN
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Dec 4:
Governor of key province sacked, Noor Khan, AP
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Dec 4:
Afghanistan says it will sign cluster bomb treaty, Walter Gibbs and Kirk Semple, International Herald Tribune
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Dec 3:
UN calls for more action to protect children, IRIN
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Dec 3:
Afghan Refugees Return Home but Find Only a Life of Desperation, Adam B Ellick, New York Times
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Dec 3:
Afghani fruits, carpets come second among 38 countries, BNA
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Dec 3:
Children at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, Leslie Knott, Relief Web
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Dec 2:
Drought, poverty lead children to abandon school, IRIN
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Dec 2:
Military Inquires Into Possible Detainee Abuse, Kirk Semple, New Semple
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Dec 2:
Spain's Secret Role in the War on Terror, Lisa Abend, Time
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Dec 2:
ISAF Risks Losing Hearts and Minds in North, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, IWPR
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Dec 2:
Terror attacks and winter make humanitarian aid work very dangerous, Relief Web
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Dec 1:
Nazia, "I work as health worker despite threats to my life”, IRIN
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Dec 1:
Afghans wary of Taliban, U.S., Jason Motlagh, Washington Times
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Dec 1:
350 women in Afghan prisons, many for 'moral crimes:' UN, AFP
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Nov 30:
Suicide bomber hits German embassy vehicle in Kabul, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters
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Nov 30:
British soldiers shoot Afghan policeman dead: military, AFP, Yahoonews.com
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Nov 29:
Factbox - Security developments, 29 Nov 2008, Reuters / Relief Web
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Nov 28:
Anger with government after suicide attack, Chris Sands, The National
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Nov 28:
Riot in Kabul after civilian killed, Yousuf Azimy, Swissinfo.ch
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Nov 27:
Blast rocks Afghan capital, Al Jazeera
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Nov 27:
Food insecurity may cause deaths this winter, IRIN
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Nov 27:
Nobody supports the Taliban, but people hate the government, Robert Fisk, The Independent
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Nov 26:
Military' 'hearts and minds' campaign creates no-go zones for aid workers, Christian Aid / Relief Web
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Nov 26:
Afghanistan demands 'timeline' for end of military intervention, AFP
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Nov 26:
Afghan President demands end of civilian killings by UN forces, DPA / Relief Web
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Nov 26:
Factbox - Security developments, 26 Nov 2008, Relief Web
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Nov 26:
Afghan president wishes he could down U.S. planes, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters
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Nov 26:
Life in Afghanistan, BBC
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Nov 26:
Obama's great foreign policy challenge, Robert Fox, The Guardian
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Nov 26:
Kidnapped aid worker targeted by error: colleagues, Joelle Diderich, Yahoonews.com
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Nov 25:
Afghanistan seeks winter food aid, Al Jazeera
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Nov 25:
10 Taliban arrested in school girl acid attack, Noor Khan, AP
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Nov 25:
Pervasive corruption fuels deep anger - Many long for harsh but clean rule of Taliban, Kim Barker, Chicago Tribune
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Nov 25:
Afghanistan's stunning lakes thirst for tourism, Sardar Ahmad and Danny Kemp, Yahoo.com
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Nov 25:
New realism in rhetoric, George Alagiah, BBC News
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Nov 25:
1.6 million children of under 5 yrs age at risk of dying this winter, Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan / Relief Web
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Nov 24:
Karzai's death-penalty dilemma, Graeme Smith, Globe and Mail
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Nov 23:
Taliban to target convoys, Al Jazeera
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Nov 23:
Factbox - Security developments, 23 Nov 2008, Reuters
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Nov 23:
Afghan opposition demands election in April, Reuters
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