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Afghan Photographer Hopes His Image Will Stop Suicide Bombers

Nicole Glass | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Photography, Kabul, Afghanistan, Massoud Hossaini, Suicide Bombers, Pulitzer Prize, World News
Nicole Glass

Massoud Hossaini was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a photo he took of Tarana Akbari, a 12-year old girl who found herself surrounded by dead bodies after a suicide bombing at a shrine in Kabul.

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US Ambassador To Leave Afghanistan This Summer

AP | Posted 05.22.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Veteran U.S. diplomat Ryan Crocker will be leaving his post as ambassador to Afghanistan this summer, an embassy spokesman ...

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Will Pakistan's New Foreign Policy Work?

Kiran Nazish | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: India, Foriegn Policy, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Hina Rabbani Khar, Kabul, Afghanistan War, Mfn, Pakistan Foreign Policy, World News
Kiran Nazish

The new world capital for Pakistan is Kabul and that is because, as the foreign office puts it, stability and peace in Pakistan is partially dependent on the events outside of Pakistan.

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A Wedding in Kabul and the Strategic Partnership Agreement with Afghanistan

Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Taliban, Afghanistan, Sarwar Kashmeri, Kabul, Nato, Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement, US-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, Karzai, Afghanistan Security Agreement, Obama Afghanistan Visit, World News
Sarwar Kashmeri

The Afghan wife of a good friend called not long ago and asked if I'd accompany her to a wedding in Kabul. I wondered why she wasn't taking her husband. "Oh it is much too dangerous for an American but you would be OK," she exclaimed cheerily.

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President Obama's 'Peace With Honor?'

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Kabul, Afgahnistan War, Peace, US Troops Afghanistan, President Obama, Nato Summit 2012, Politics News
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The president delivered a strong, patriotic speech in Kabul Tuesday. But the fact that he had to sneak into the country after our brave servicemen and women have been fighting there for over a decade speaks for itself.

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Why We Have Failed In Afghanistan

Ben Anderson | Posted 05.03.2012

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Ben Anderson

Now that the glowing reports about how well Afghan Security forces performed in putting down last week's attacks in Kabul have died down, it's worth having a serious and honest discussion about what exactly we are about to leave behind in Afghanistan.

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Taliban Launch Deadly Attack On Kabul Hours After Obama Visit

AP | PATRICK QUINN | Posted 05.03.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president has branded his U.S. allies as corrupt, wasteful and contemptuous of Afghan lives. Once he even thr...

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Massive Attack Thwarted, 11 Tons Of Explosives Seized

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and PATRICK QUINN | Posted 04.21.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan security forces have arrested five militants with 10,000 kilograms (22,000 pounds) of explosives that they smuggled ...

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11 Suicide Vests Reportedly Found Near Ministry Of Defense In Kabul

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 05.27.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan Defense Ministry was locked down for two hours Tuesday after an intelligence report warned that the highly secur...

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Turkish Helicopter Crash Kills 16 In Afghanistan

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and SUZAN FRASER | Posted 05.15.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and four...

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Surveillance Video Reportedly Shows U.S. Soldier Accused Of Shooting Massacre

AP | Posted 05.14.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. soldier who allegedly shot 16 Afghan villagers was caught on surveillance video that showed him walking up to his...

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In Afghanistan, Children Behind Bars

GlobalPost | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Kabul, Afghanistan Women's Rights, Afghanistan, World News

The happy blue arch proclaims that the institution is the "Open Rehabilitation Juvenile Center, Kabul." But there is nothing that is "open" and ve...

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NATO Staff Pulled From Afghanistan Following Attack

AP | DEB RIECHMANN and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 04.26.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A gunman killed two American military advisers with shots to the back of the head Saturday inside a heavily guarded ministr...

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Dozens Wounded In Afghan Demonstrations Over Quran-Burning

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012

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By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanista...

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Demonstrators Torch Foreign Compound In Kabul

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012

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KABUL, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Demonstrators in the Afghan capital Kabul set fire on Wednesday to part of a housing compound used by foreign contract wor...

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Cold, Cold Heart

Kathy Kelly | Posted 04.15.2012

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Kathy Kelly

We lull ourselves into a comforting delusion that we're waging humanitarian wars, and then wonder why people aren't more grateful.

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Fear Factor: The Religious Right's Problem With Women

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 04.01.2012

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Dr. Peggy Drexler

What is it about women that the men of deeply conservative religions find so threatening? What runs so deep that it justifies traumatizing an innocent eight-year-old like Naama Margolese in Beit Shemesh?

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Civilian Helicopter Crash Kills 3

AP | Posted 03.17.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A civilian helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing all three people on board, an Afghan official said...

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Much to Forgive: The Story of Bibi Sadia

Kathy Kelly | Posted 03.04.2012

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Kathy Kelly

A Talib asked Bibi for forgiveness for hitting her. Bibi replied, "I am like your mother, and when you hit me, you had simply hit your own mother." The main Talib responded by telling Bibi she must give him one of her daughters, any of them aged 1 to 15, in marriage.

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Assembly Time

Kathy Kelly | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Taliban, Kabul, Afghanistan, Occupy Movement, Occupy, Peace Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Peace, Rethink Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Afghan Justice Seekers, Afghanistan Civilian Deaths, Afghan Justice, World News
Kathy Kelly

Not only do Weeda and her co-workers assemble stories, documents and pictures from the families of victims of war, they also help build supportive communities amongst the families whose trust they have gained through their repeated visits.

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Suicide Bomber Strikes Afghan Funeral, Killing 19

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 02.24.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday just after a funeral in northern Afghanistan, killing 19 people, including a member...

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Big Shoulders in Chicago and Kabul

Kathy Kelly | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Kabul, Nato, G-8, Rahm Emanuel, Occupy, Hillary Clinton, Obama, General Rassmussen, Carl Sandburg, World News
Kathy Kelly

NATO/G8 meetings are scheduled to take place from May 19-21 next year in Chicago. Plans are ramping up everywhere.

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Twin Attacks Kill Dozens, Injure More Than 100 In Afghanistan

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 02.04.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — In Afghanistan's first major sectarian assault since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago, a suicide bomber slaughte...

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World Bank Issues Alert On Afghanistan Economy

New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 11.23.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan will suffer a recession in 2014 and beyond after foreign troops leave and aid dwindles, and if the security situati...

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An Arab Spring for Art?

Chris Vroom | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Diana Al-Hadid, Tunisia, Cairo, Adel Abidin, Morocco, Egypt, Street Art, Kabul, Ahmed Alsoudani, Venice Biennale, Iraq, Ghada Amer, Syria, Middle East Ar, Middle East Street Art, Arts News
Chris Vroom

For many artists, the crowning achievement of a successful career is to represent their country at the Venice Biennale, the bi-annual Oscars of the ar...

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