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French Aid Worker Released In Kabul

AP | Posted 12.03.2008 | World

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PARIS — A French aid worker kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital and later seen in an emotional hostage video was released by his captors...

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French Aid Worker Freed In Afghanistan

AP | Posted 12.03.2008 | World

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PARIS — A French aid worker kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital and later seen in an emotional hostage video was released by his captors...

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Afghan police: Car bomb explodes near US Embassy

AP | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan police say a suicide car bomb has exploded about 200 yards (meters) outside the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in...

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Afghanistan: Taliban Reject Offer For Peace Talks With President

AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Kabul, Hamid Karzai, Karzai Afghanistan, Karzai, Al Qaeda, War Wire, Home News

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban militants rejected an offer of peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, saying Monday there would be no n...

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Celebrating Obama's Victory in Kabul

Asma Nemati | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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Asma Nemati

November 4, 2008 Today I experienced probably the most exciting event in my life; elections. Voting in a presidential election for the first time in...

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Two Foreigners Shot To Death In Afghanistan

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A security guard working for the international shipping company DHL opened fire Saturday, killing the company's country dir...

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Beyond Burgers for Barack in Kabul

Asma Nemati | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics

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Asma Nemati

About a week ago I was able to attend the Obama rally in Kabul, "Burgers and Brewskies for Barak in Kabul." Yes, that's right, an Obama rally smack in...

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Taliban Turns Lethal: 101 US Deaths In Afghanistan This Year

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 08.24.2008 | Home

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents once derided as a ragtag rabble unable to match U.S. troops have transformed into a fighting force _ one...

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Thousands Of Police Surround Kabul As 88 Die In Afghan Violence

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan police ordered 7,000 officers onto the streets of Kabul to guard against attacks on senior leaders during Indepe...

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CIA Says Pakistan Spy Agency Helping Militants

The Real News | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Tribal Power, Cia, Afghanistan, Isi, Pakistan, Jihadism, Kabul, Taliban, President Bush, Bombing, Gilani, Politics News
The Real News

US intelligence agencies believe that members of Pakistan's spy service, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, helped plan the deadly July 7th bombing of India's embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Pakistan Aided Militants In Planning Kabul Attack, US Officials Say: Pakistan Denies Involvement

Huffington Post | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home

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The New York Times this morning reported that U.S. intelligence agencies have discovered, through intercepted communications, that Pakistan's spy serv...

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Coalition Forces Killed In Afghan Militia Attack

AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Kabul, Kabul Attacks, Afghan Insurgency, Afghan Militia, US Coalition, Taliban, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants attacked troops from the U.S.-led coalition patrolling south of the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing three of ...

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McCain's Afghanistan: Macabre Visions Through The Eyes of an Ex-President

Shoaib Harris | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ahmed Rashid, War on Terror, Jena Bush, Taliban, Shiite, Republican Presidential Candidate, Kabul, John McCain, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Soviet Occupation, Afghanistan, Bamiyan, Hazara, Khad, Scott Mcclellan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Alqaeda, US Soldiers, Politics News
Shoaib Harris

Unlike McCain, who keeps recycling President Bush's bravado of catching "Bin Laden dead or alive," Obama, to his credit, has articulated his Afghanistan strategy more clearly.

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Afghan Female Boxers Challenge Gender Roles

San Francisco Chronicle | Nick Meo | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living

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Concord resident Tareq Shawl Azim says he always knew he would one day return to his parents' country to make it a better place. Azim, whose parents ...

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Strategic Incoherence and Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan

Mark Schneider | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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Mark Schneider

The costs of failing to increase resources and invest new energy into rebuilding Afghanistan would be unacceptably high: a return to civil war with factions divided along regional and ethnic lines.

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When Coincidence Is Not Coincidental

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Surge, Al Qaeda Intelligence, Robert Gates, Kabul, Baghdad, Taliban, Robert Gates Iraq, General Petraeus, Al Qaida in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

A lot of politicians, mostly Democrats are trying to set deadlines and time tables. It's wishful thinking. We've gotten ourselves in a mess with no easy way out, and maybe no out at all.

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Men as Allies

Zainab Salbi | Posted 10.17.2007 | Politics

Read More: Misogyny, Islam, Kabul, Gender Stereotypes, Afghanistan, War Stereotypes, Rape Congo, Taliban, Women and War, Afghan Women, Opression of Aghan Women, Women for Women International, Islamic Radicalism, War Rape, Men's Leadership Program, Iraq, Politics News
Zainab Salbi

As we work on building peace in different war torn regions, it is important that we understand the complexities of gender and recognize the struggles not only faced by women but by men as well.

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"The Kite Runner" Film Delayed To Protected Safety Of Child Stars

New York Times | AVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 10.04.2007 | Entertainment

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The studio distributing "The Kite Runner," a tale of childhood betrayal, sexual predation and ethnic tension in Afghanistan, is delaying the film's r...

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