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  • 14 killed in Afghan suicide bombing

    A Taliban suicide bomber Monday blew himself up in front of a government office in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province, killing at least 14 people and wounding 13 others, the interior ministry said. The bombing took place in front of the entrance gate of the Baghlan provincial council headquarters in Pul-e-Khumi around 10.30 a.m., Xinhua reported. Mohammad Rasoul Mohseni, the head of the ...

  • Karzai leaves for state visit to India

    Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Monday left on a two-day visit to India, the president's office said in a statement. "President Hamid Karzai, leading a high-level delegation, left this morning (Monday) on a two-day state visit to India at the invitation of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee," Xinhua quoted the statement as saying. During his visit, Karzai is scheduled to meet Mukherjee, ...

  • A friend comes calling

    President Hamid Karzai will be in India for a two-day visit, discussing issues that are of importance to both countries. This would be his twelfth visit here, and this in itself, is testimony to the importance of this relationship that both need to nurture constantly. There are however concerns that affect both countries, arising from the impending drawdown, as it is called, of U.S. forces next ...

  • Karzai Seeks Indian Military Aid Amid Tensions with Pakistan

    KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan. Kabul's overtures to New Delhi are likely to rile Islamabad where a new government led by two-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif is set to take office ...

  • More Fort Campbell troops return from Afghanistan

    FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) -- More of the "Rakkasans" have returned to Fort Campbell from Afghanistan. The plane carrying nearly 90 members of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division touched down at the U.S. Army post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border Sunday evening. Environmental and science engineering officer Julie Bridges was surrounded by family, including her ...


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  • Pakistans presumptive PM calls for Taliban talks

    The Taliban has been waging a bloody insurgency against the government for years that has killed thousands of security personnel and ...

  • FSB prevents terror act in Moscow by militants trained in Afghanistan Pakistan

    Russia's FSB has foiled a terror attack in Moscow as they managed to kill two and detain one of the militants planning it, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said. The three men are "Russian citizens, arrived from Afghani-Pakistani region, where they have been trained," the committee said in a statement. As FSB forces approached the house in a small town in the Moscow ...

  • Endgame Afghanistan can security forces deliver post 2014

    Kabul: Every year as the snow melts, groups like Taliban and its affiliates, the Haqqani network, as also the Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) cross over from Pakistan as a fresh fighting season begins in Afghanistan.It is soldiers like Commander Kushal Sadat from Special Forces 222 who are called upon when terror strikes. The unit is based on the outskirts of Kabul and their mandate is to protect the ...

  • With end of Afghan war in sight Europe pushes business

    HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The European Union threw its weight behind developing Afghanistan's small but promising private sector this week, in the hope that business can usher in stability and peace once foreign troops leave by the end of next ...

  • Worrying Signs Afghan Womens Rights Will Slip After U.S. Departure

    An Afghan woman in Kabul on May 10, 2012. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters) In 2009, Afghan President Hamid Karzai used his powers of presidential decree to put a law to protect women on the books. This weekend the measure failed to gain parliamentary approval, raising once more the question of whether women's legal rights will be a casualty of Afghanistan's political and security ...

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