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Newest US Troops In Dangerous Region Near Kabul

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Close to 3,000 American soldiers who recently arrived in Afghanistan to secure two violent provinces near Kabul ha...

Afghanistan: Russia to the Rescue

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
William Bradley

Russia can certainly help the US greatly in Afghanistan. And the price -- ending the NATO encroachment strategy -- may be an inevitable one anyway, and thus perhaps easily paid.

Holbrooke Afghanistan Trip: Security Troops Throng Afghan Capital Before Envoy Visit

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

KABUL — The new U.S. regional envoy landed in Afghanistan on Thursday to help chart President Barack Obama's strategy for peace in this volatile...

Taliban Attack Afghan Government Buildings, Killing At Least 20, Before Holbrooke Visit

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

KABUL — Taliban militants killed 20 people in a coordinated attack on three government buildings in Kabul Wednesday, launching the assault after...

NATO Mired In Stalemate With Afghanistan's Taliban

Times Online | Michael Evans, Defence Editor, Tom Coghlan in Kabul and James Bone in New York | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Britain and her Nato allies in Afghanistan are stuck in a stalemate with the Taleban, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, admitted yesterday. Hi...

Afghanistan: Where Empires (US, USSR) Go To Die

Tomdispatch.com | By Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

It is now a commonplace -- as a lead article in the New York Times's Week in Review pointed out recently -- that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empi...

US Should De-Escalate In Afghanistan: Policy Brief

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Gilles Dorronsoro | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

After seven years of war, the international community has failed to create the conditions for a sustainable Afghan state. The reality is that the inte...

Afghan Stars at Sundance

Havana Marking | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Havana Marking

Last Saturday night, we were presented two awards by the good people of Sundance. it was the first time an Afghan film had made it there, and the people of Afghanistan were over the moon.

US: 32 Insurgents Killed After Heavy Clashes In Eastern Afghanistan

AP | HEIDI VOGT and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led forces raided a Taliban bomb-making cell in eastern Afghanistan, killing 32 insurgents in a battle with scores of ...

Why We're Failing In Afghanistan

Coloradoindependent.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

When it takes seven bone-jarring hours to drive just 90 miles over war-scarred dirt roads from Kabul to the troubled Helmand Province in southwest Afg...

Life in a War Zone: Text Messages, Shopping, and Bad TV

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Virginia M. Moncrieff

Long ago, I learned that you are still the same person when you enter a war zone. You need to do your washing, satisfy your urge to shop for luxuries, meet friends and watch bad TV.

Taliban Support Increasing, Holds 72 % Of Afghanistan: Report

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Virginia M. Moncrieff

If you are currently living in Kabul, you are residing in a city with a "permanent Taliban presence" according to a new report by The International Co...

Explain to Me Why Sending Private Security Contractors to Afghanistan Makes Sense

Patrick Barry | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Patrick Barry

Introducing private security contractors -- lightening rods for controversy in the Muslim world -- into an already volatile situation just seems nonsensical.

Uprising In Corrupt Afghan Prison Leaves 8 Dead

New York Times | KIRK SEMPLE | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government has launched an investigation to determine how eight inmates died during an uprising against prison guards...

Death in Kabul

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Virginia M. Moncrieff

Abid was the victim of the cheating lawlessness in Afghanistan. Whoever killed him will never be questioned, charged or jailed for the crime.

French Aid Worker Released In Kabul

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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...

French Aid Worker Freed In Afghanistan

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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...

Afghan police: Car bomb explodes near US Embassy

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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...

Afghanistan: Taliban Reject Offer For Peace Talks With President

AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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

Asma Nemati | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Asma Nemati

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Two Foreigners Shot To Death In Afghanistan

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

Asma Nemati | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Asma Nemati

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Taliban Turns Lethal: 101 US Deaths In Afghanistan This Year

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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

Thousands Of Police Surround Kabul As 88 Die In Afghan Violence

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

CIA Says Pakistan Spy Agency Helping Militants

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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.