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Afghanistan Election: Partial Recount Ordered By U.N.-Backed Panel

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

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KABUL — A U.N.-backed commission found "convincing evidence" of fraud Tuesday in Afghanistan's presidential election and ordered a recount of su...

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US-German Rift Emerges Over Afghan Deaths Case

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and FRANK JORDANS | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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KABUL — An airstrike by U.S. fighter jets that appears to have killed Afghan civilians could turn into a major dispute for NATO allies Germany a...

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George Will Debates NeoCons Over Afghanistan War

Huffington Post | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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Conservative commentator George Will appeared on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos Sunday Morning and took on NeoConservatives over the cou...

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Security Assigned To Oversee Deviant Guards At US Embassy In Kabul

Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer KABUL - The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has banned alcohol and assigned American personnel to watch over ...

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Embassy Guard: Sex Acts Required For Promotion At U.S. Embassy In Afghanistan

ABC News | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

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Private security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul were pressured to participate in naked pool parties and perform sex acts to gain promotions or as...

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State Department Probing "Lord Of The Flies" Atmosphere At Afghan Embassy

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A wide-ranging State Department inquiry into allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct among the private security contract...

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US Embassy Guards Gone Wild In Kabul: Prostitution, Brawls, And Vodka Butt Shots

Mother Jones | Daniel Schulman | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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Drunken brawls, prostitutes, hazing and humiliation, taking vodka shots out of buttcracks-- no, the perpetrators of these Animal House-like antics are...

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George Will Calls For Pull-Out In Afghanistan

Politico | MIKE ALLEN | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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George F. Will, the elite conservative commentator, will call in his next column for U.S. ground troops to leave Afghanistan, according to publishing ...

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UN Plans First Afghan Summit In Kabul

guardian.co.uk | Jon Boone in Kabul | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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The United Nations is planning to host an international summit on the future of Afghanistan for the first time in Kabul as an attempt to bestow credib...

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Holbrooke, Karzai Have "Explosive Meeting" Over Afghan Election

BBC NEWS | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

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The BBC has learned that the US special envoy to Afghanistan has had what has been described as "an explosive meeting" with President Hamid Karzai ove...

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Afghan Bomb Strikes At Foreign Entities

The New York Times | TAIMOOR SHAH | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A huge bomb detonated on Tuesday night in a part of Kandahar where international aid agencies and United Nations offices are ...

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Karzai, top rival run nearly even in Afghan vote

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai and his main rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, were running virtually even Tuesday in the first f...

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A Poet Braves Afghanistan's Bloody Politics

John Lundberg | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living

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John Lundberg

Two months ago, the Afghan poet Latif Pedram published the poem "Kabul" in the French newsletter Nomade. It is a poem of witness, sorrowful but necess...

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Obama and the Afghan Election: What It Means, What It Doesn't

William Bradley | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

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William Bradley

The Obama administration should sigh with a sense of relief after the election in Afghanistan -- the Taliban failed in their threat to halt the election, and were unable to pull off any of the promised attacks.

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5 Thoughts on the Afghan Elections

Patrick Barry | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

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Patrick Barry

With the Afghan elections having taken place today amidst extraordinarily difficult circumstances, I thought I would offer up a few things to keep in mind when reading the coverage.

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Karzai Government Demands Afghan Media Blackout On Election Day, Journalists Refuse

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

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KABUL — Afghan journalists charged Wednesday that their government was violating the constitution by trying to censor reports of violence on ele...

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Afghanistan Restricts Media Ahead Of Election; Press Told Not To Report Attacks

The Associated Press | Fisnik Abrashi | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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KABUL -- Insurgents struck the Afghan capital two days before national elections, firing rockets or mortars at the presidential palace and unleashing ...

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NATO Convoy Attack Outside Kabul Kills 8

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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KABUL — Insurgents struck the Afghan capital two days before national elections, firing rockets or mortars at the presidential palace and unleas...

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Afghan Warlords, Narco-State Government Not Worth Another Drop of U.S. Blood

Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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Derrick Crowe

The Bush-era idea that terrorism is a problem to be dealt with through invasion and occupation of foreign lands has led us down a path that ends with our morally culpability for the behavior of a narco-state flush with cash from the opium trade and U.S. taxpayer dollars.

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Kabul Hit Ahead Of Afghan Poll

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home

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At least seven people, including two UN workers, have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a Western military convoy east of the Afghan capital...

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Afghan attacks kill US civilian, service member

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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KABUL — A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan killed a U.S. service member, while an American civilian working for the military died after ins...

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Donkeys Deliver Ballots To Afghanistan's Mountain Villages

AP | RAFIQ MAQBOOL | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

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PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan — A lack of decent roads and its towering, craggy mountains are leading Afghanistan to turn to an age-old mode of t...

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HuffPost Review: Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

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Katya Wachtel

This is the story of one of the thousands of silhouettes who roam war-zones every day so that we, thousands of miles away, can grasp what is happening on the front-line of wars that affect life on this continent too.

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Afghanistan Dispatch: Inside Kabul

Gilles Dorronsoro | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

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Gilles Dorronsoro

The attack earlier this week on Pul-i-Alam, only 50 kilometers from Kabul, exemplifies the next step in the Taliban's winning strategy in Afghanistan: destabilizing the cities in the country's Pashtun belt.

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Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Director: "We Totally Missed The Boat"

GlobalPost | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

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At every turn in Kabul, there are the remains and ruins of old kingdoms and empires that provide hard lessons, for those willing to learn them, on the...

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