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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Afghanistan Sun.com http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:17:13 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:17:13 -0500 30 Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, has reportedly sent US President Barack Obama a letter, indicating an interest to initiate peace talks. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203220988/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:00:09 -0500 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203220988/cs/1/ The Taliban wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes without Pakistan, senior journalist Sandy Gall well versed with the war in Afghanistan has claimed in his new book "War Against the Taliban". http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200478/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:40:09 -0500 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200478/cs/1/ The premeditated murder of four women at the hands of family patriarch Mohammed Shafia, along with his accomplice wife and son, has Canada’s Afghan community as bewildered and outraged as the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223284/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:48:39 -0500 The Globe and Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223284/ McClatchy Newspapers MAHMUD RAQI, Afghanistan -- The Afghan soldier accused of killing four French troops last month bribed an Afghan army recruiter to forge his enlistment papers, deserted ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223301/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:44:58 -0500 Star-Telegram http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223301/ ISLAMABAD -; Pakistan's prime minister will travel to the Gulf state of Qatar next week to talk with government leaders there about moves to broker a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban. The ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203222824/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:44:08 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203222824/ The military operation has caused displacement of about 70,000 people from the region. The deceased soldiers were identified as Mohammad Hussain Mohmand, Sanaullah Khattak, Nadir Khan, Irfan, Jannat ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223137/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:09:58 -0500 Asia News Network http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223137/ The Tolonews website runs a story on its front page reporting about the news of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in Kabulin this May 23, 2011, file photo. The White House received a ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223289/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:56:05 -0500 Canada.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223289/ Children gathered around a fire last week in the Nasaji Bagrami refugee camp in Kabul, where 14 Afghan infants have frozen to death in the past ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223304/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:37:01 -0500 New York Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223304/ Barack Obama will host British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha during an official state visit to Washington DC scheduled for next month. A state dinner is also ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223009/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:27:00 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223009/ KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban are not beaten, the peace process is bogged down in internal squabbles and Afghan security forces aren't ready to take control of the nation. Yet the U.S. ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223282/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:17:26 -0500 Deseret News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223282/ OPA-LOCKA (CBS4) – Nearly two hundred Army Reserve soldiers are leaving South Florida for Afghanistan to help train and support the Afghan security force. Soldiers from the 841st Engineer ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223300/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:14:32 -0500 CBS 4 http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223300/ Brigadier General Terence J. Hildner died of apparent natural causes Friday in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Army said. FORT HOOD, Texas -- A 49-year-old brigadier general died of apparently natural ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223262/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:08 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223262/ A jury on Sunday found three members of an Afghan family guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223292/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:56:27 -0500 Gadsden Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203223292/ KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban are not beaten, the peace process is bogged down in internal squabbles and Afghan security forces aren't ready to take control of the nation. Yet the U.S. ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215353/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:50:24 -0500 Richmond Times-Dispatch http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215353/ Afghan soldiers are seen alert outside of the compound, where ceremony of the second phase of transfer of authority from the NATO- led troops to Afghan security forces was held in Jalalabad, ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203214499/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:42:51 -0500 Globe and Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203214499/ $(document).ready(function() { $('#pop-art-day').show(); $('#pop-art-week').hide(); $('#pop-comm-day').hide(); $('#pop-comm-week').hide(); ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215349/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:14:17 -0500 Foreign Policy http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215349/ Ulyanovsk's airport could be getting a lot busier. NATO and Russia are working on an agreement to set up a multi-modal transport hub in Ulyanovsk, in Russia's Volga region, to assist the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203214866/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:09:27 -0500 EurasiaNet http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203214866/ By Ahmad Ramin Delasa MAZAR-e SHARIF, Afghanistan, February 3, 2012 (ENS) - The authorities in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif are running a major campaign to cut pollution, but ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203212731/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:09:07 -0500 Environment News Service http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203212731/ BRUSSELS -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that NATO allies have agreed broadly to step back from the lead combat role in Afghanistan and let local forces take their place as ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215345/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:03:12 -0500 The China Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215345/ al-Qaida fighters in Kandahar in 2001," said Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Rakesh Maria. The ATS chief said that Naik was part of the IM's core committee which is responsible for taking key ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215346/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:51:09 -0500 Times of India http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215346/ Demonstrators from Amnesty International and Witness Against Torture hold a procession against the use of torture and continued detentions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, outside the Supreme Court in ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215351/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:32:46 -0500 UPI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215351/ PARACHINAR, Pakistan – Islamist militants attacked a Pakistani army checkpoint near the Afghan border Friday, killing seven paramilitary soldiers and abducting four, a government official and ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215189/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:08:42 -0500 Fox News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215189/ If you're not looking forward to your post-Super Bowl-party case of indigestion, be thankful you won't be washing down your chicken wings and jalapeo poppers with non-alcoholic beer at ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215343/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:53:19 -0500 Philadelphia Business Journal http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215343/ Scottish soldiers have been deployed to Afghanistan with all British troops due to leave the country by 2014. How likely is it? Next week BBC Reporting Scotland will look at the role being played ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215341/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:49:58 -0500 BBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203215341/ FORT STEWART, Ga.- About 700 soldiers from Georgia are among the latest U.S. troops headed to Afghanistan for a war that continues even after the Iraq conflict's end, leaving anxious spouses ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203214401/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:18:37 -0500 Boston.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203214401/ If you look at Afghanistan as well as in Iraq as well as in Yugoslavia you find that wherever these weapons were used you find graveyards of people dying from cancer and other unusual ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203207253/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:26:25 -0500 Infowars.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203207253/ For the first time in Afghanistan, around 20 women have been boxing in Kabul’s Ghazi stadium, aiming to compete at London 2012. Report ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203207250/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:36:56 -0500 Mideast Posts http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203207250/ This is the third installment in a three-part series. PAKTIKA, Afghanistan — ';I feel like the Taliban,'; Sergeant First Class Herring says. It’s late January in Marzak, a ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203207246/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:32:28 -0500 Wired News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203207246/ Amid growing signs of crisis in the decade-old US-led war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday that the US military would make a "transition" from combat to ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200604/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:49:34 -0500 wsws.org http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200604/ International News: BRUSSELS, U.S. forces will cede the lead role in combat operations in Afghanistan next year, but will keep fighting alongside Afghan troops, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200595/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:23:13 -0500 KeralaNext http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200595/ Obama administration officials are downplaying  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s comments that by late next year U.S. troops could  switch away from a combat role in Afghanistan to ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200412/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:18:25 -0500 ABC News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200412/ JACKSON, Miss. -- The Defense Department says a North Carolina-based Marine from Mississippi has died in Afghanistan.In a news release Thursday, the Defense Department says Lance Cpl. Edward J. ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200593/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:13:00 -0500 News & Observer http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203200593/ WASHINGTON - It did not take long for Mitt Romney to pounce on Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta's statement Wednesday that American troops could end their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013, 18 ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203198721/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:00:31 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203198721/ American troop levels The U.S. has about 90,000 troops in Afghanistan, but 22,000 are due home by fall. No schedule has been set for the pace of the withdrawal of the 68,000 U.S. troops who will ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194611/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:48:13 -0500 Star-Telegram http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194611/ White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Thursday tried to clarify a remark by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta suggesting an early U.S. transition out of its combat mission in Afghanistan. Carney ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194589/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:42:57 -0500 PBS http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194589/ Russia and NATO may soon sign an agreement that would ease cargo transportation from Afghanistan via Russia’s territory, the Kommersant daily reported on Friday. Moscow is in talks with NATO ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194305/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:16 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194305/ East Bay native Kyle Truitt returned from Afghanistan in November, trading the incessant rockets of the Kandahar Airfield for the rain at the Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas. He died there ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194603/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:36:36 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194603/ (Reuters) - Lawmakers are steeling for a public battle against the possible transfer of Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison, a key step in the Obama administration's bid to broker a ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194615/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:30:51 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194615/ The U.S. government is willing to speak with Taliban leaders as the U.S. pares down its role in Afghanistan. Anna Ward spoke with the "Father of the Taliban" who claims the group is ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203193958/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:26:33 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203193958/ 11,500 Serbians are trapped in remote villages by heavy snow, as Authorities tell Dragana Jovanovic that food supplies and medicine are being delivered by choppers or sledges in Serbia, and about 70 ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203193012/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:22:58 -0500 ABC News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203193012/ Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar (L) addresses a joint press conference with her Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rasoul in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 1, 2012. Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194469/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:46:34 -0500 SINA http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203194469/ The United Nations refugee chief today thanked the Pakistani Government for its generosity towards Afghans who have sought refuge in the country, while also calling for creating the right conditions ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203187660/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:23:59 -0500 UN News Centre http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/203187660/