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  • Pakistan urges Afghanistan to consider regional implications of arms deal with India

    The Foreign Office in Pakistan has urged Afghanistan to consider the regional security situation while pursuing an arms purchase deal with India. At a media briefing on Friday, Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jillani said as a sovereign country Afghanistan can pursue its own policies, but it should mind the overall peace and security situation in the region. According to Dawn News, Jillani was ...

  • In Afghan Transition U.S. Forces Take a Step Back

    The Third Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division has been training Afghanistan's security forces in an effort to help them become ...

  • Afghan Media Describes Kabul Students Protest through Western Prism

    Several hundred students and lecturers from various universities in Kabul gathered in front of the Kabul University on Wednesday, 22 May 2013, demonstrating against the Bill on "Curbing Violence against Women". Holding Prophet Mohammad's ??? ???? ???? ???? Liwaa' and Rayah, demonstrators expressed their hatred of Western laws enforced upon the Ummah, and called upon the ...

  • Bombings in Kabul kill police officer 2 civilians

    A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday morning in Kabul, Afghanistan, without killing anyone else, police said. The bombing occurred inside a house, Khaama Press reported. The bomber was wearing a suicide vest packed with explosives. A police officer and two civilians were killed Friday in Kabul in coordinated attacks. The Taliban said they planned the attacks, targeting a guest house used ...


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  • Law to protect Afghan women faces backlash

    An Afghan woman, in a burqa, walks through a clothing bazaar Kabul In September 2012. The Taliban forced women to cloak themselves to the eyes in public, but the practice continues even though the Taliban were forced from power a decade ago, and domestic violence against women is growing. (Washington Post/Pamela Constable) KABUL - A proposed law to protect Afghan women and girls from abuses such ...

  • Why insider attacks are down in Afghanistan

    No one claims the problem is solved, but officials are cautiously hopeful that the lower number of 'green-on-blue' killings in Afghanistan this year means preventive measures are having an ...

  • Western Aid Finances Afghan Projects From Silly to Sublime

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  • Afghan forces lauded for keeping casualties to a minimum

    The countries government lauded its forces on Saturday for beating back a Taliban assault that left one police officer, two civilians and all four militants dead. Explosions rocked the city for several hours on Friday after insurgents launched a coordinated suicide and gun attack centred on a compound of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The effectiveness of Afghan security ...

  • Afghan interpreters may move to the UK – security forces have no safe haven | Jon Boone

    When I met Rahmatullah two years ago he was laid up in bed in Kabul's towering national military hospital. Gruesome rods protruded from the smashed leg of the 21-year-old soldier who had been serving in Helmand at the time with the 215 "Maiwand" Corps. His bone had been broken by a Taliban bullet fired not on the battlefield, but inside his own home while he was on leave in ...

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