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Kabul's Garbage-to-Green Man

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Afghan War, Parks, Walid Tamim, Environment, Kabul, Civic Initiatives Program, Geoff Thompson, Tree-Hugger, Trees, Kabul-Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

You could bore everyone witless reading out a shopping list of the amenities Kabul lacks, and somewhere tucked into that endless list would be green space -- something Walid Tamim is changing.

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Obama's Deepening AfPak Crisis

William Bradley | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: India, Pakistani Army, Britain, Turkey, Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kabul, Mumbai, Taliban, Islamabad, Nato, Pakistani Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Ashfaq Kayani, Dick Cheney, Karachi, Pervez Musharaff, Afpak, Richard Armitage, Colin Powell, Al Jazeera, World News
William Bradley

With the appropriate huzzahs for Obama's first 100 days still ringing in the air, his new AfPak strategy, for the linked crisis of Afghanistan and Pakistan, is already in deep trouble.

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Hamid Karzai Announces Re-Election Bid

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai Election, Hamid Karzai Gordon Brown, Hamid Karzai Re-Election, Kabul, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Election, Foreign Affairs, Hamid Karzai, World News

Afghanistan's president has said that he will soon register his candidacy for August's presidential election....

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Taliban: Claim Of Government Talks Is 'Propaganda'

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Afghan Government, Kabul Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Middle East, Afghanistan, Hamidzada, Kabul, Taliban, Afghanistan Taliban, Afghan-Government-Taliban, Hamid Karzai, War Wire, World News

Afghanistan's Taliban has denied that it was holding peace talks with the government, saying such claims were propaganda aimed at creating a schism am...

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If David Brooks Thinks He Knows So Much About Afghanistan, He Should Debate Robert Greenwald

ZP Heller | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: David Brooks, Brave New Foundation, Troops, Military, Barack Obama, Escalation, Robert Greenwald, Kabul, Pakistan War, Rethink Afghanistan, Afghanistan, World News
ZP Heller

I'm curious to know what Afghanistan David Brooks visited? Either Brooks spent all his time hanging out with military leaders or there's a whole crisis he's deliberately trying to downplay.

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Twittering from Kabul

Robert Greenwald | Posted 04.28.2009 | World

Read More: Twitter, Military, Barack Obama, Robert Greenwald, Kabul, Fixer, Rethink Afghanistan, Taliban, Facebook, Kabul-Afghanistan, Afghanistan, World News
Robert Greenwald

The final day in Kabul: We were on our way to the peace and reconciliation committee when our "fixer" let me know that there would be 20 or so members of the Taliban turning in their weapons that day!

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Taliban Insurgents Poised At Gates Of Kabul

CNN | Paula Newton | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

Read More: Karzai, Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Taliban, Afghanistan Taliban, Taliban Afghanistan, Taliban-Insurgents, Hamid Karzai, Taliban Kabul, World News

A top Taliban commander has told CNN his insurgents are poised and ready to attack Kabul and could strike virtually anywhere in the city....

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Afghan Journalist's 20-Year Blasphemy Sentence Upheld By Court

New York Times | ABDUL WAHEED WAFA and CARLOTTA GALL | Posted 04.11.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Afghanistan Supreme Court, Afghanistan Media Rights, Human Rights, Journalists Rights, Afghanistan Human Rights, Middle East, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan Journalist, Sayed-Parwez-Kaambakhsh-Afghanistan-Journalist, Media Rights, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year sentence for an Afghan university student journalist accused of blasphemy in a ...

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Salt in the Wound: The Case for Compensation

Erica Gaston | Posted 04.05.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, US Military, Afghanistan Surge, Obama War in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, Compensation, US Military Afghanistan, Humanitarian Aid, Afghanistan War, World News
Erica Gaston

While troops say they have an "open door" to Afghan civilians, Afghans find that door is barricaded by barbed wire and heavily armed, hostile men.

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Hamid Karzai Accused Of Brinkmanship Over Call For Early Election

Guardian.co.uk | Jon Boone in Kabul | Posted 04.01.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, Kabul, Afghan Elections, Afghanistan Early Elections, Afghanistan, Karzai Brinkmanship, Afghanistan Election, Karzai Early Elections, Hamid Karzai, World News

Opposition politicians in Afghanistan have accused the president, Hamid Karzai, of constitutional brinkmanship that threatens to turn Afghanistan into...

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Newest US Troops In Dangerous Region Near Kabul

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: U.S. Troops, America, Barack Obama, Surge, Kabul, Afghanistan, Obama, American Troops, World News

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

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Afghanistan: Russia to the Rescue

William Bradley | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, America, Afghanistan, Missile Shield, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Boris Gromov, Joe Biden, 9/11, Kabul, Iran, Vladimir Putin, Kyber Pass, David Petraeus, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Moscow, Iraq, Al Jazeera, Hillary Clinton, Dmitri Medvedev, Soviet Union, World News
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.

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

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

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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...

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

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

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

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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 03.13.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Kabul, David Miliband, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, President Barack Obama, President Karzai, United States, War in Afghanistan, Nato, Britian, Troop Surge, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Richard Holbrooke, Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, World News

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

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

Tomdispatch.com | By Tom Engelhardt | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

Read More: Jihad, Kabul, Bush Administration, Pakistan, President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Ussr, Russia, Afghanistan, United States, Empires, President George W. Bush, Mujahideen, Week in Review, World News

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...

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US Should De-Escalate In Afghanistan: Policy Brief

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Gilles Dorronsoro | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul, Troop Withdrawal, Military Surge in Afghanistan, Nato, President Obama, New Strategy in Afghanistan, Isaf, Taliban, Afghanistan, US Troops in Afghanistan, Exit Strategy, World News

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...

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Afghan Stars at Sundance

Havana Marking | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dauoud Seddiqi, Ryan Seacrest, Sundance Film Festival, Afghanistan, Jubilation, Kabul, Documentaries, Film Festivals, Film, British, Movies, Happiness, Filmmaking, Sundance 2009, Documentary, American Idol, Sundance, Excitement, Afghan Star, Music, Teenagers, Singing, Entertainment News
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.

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US: 32 Insurgents Killed After Heavy Clashes In Eastern Afghanistan

AP | HEIDI VOGT and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

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

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Why We're Failing In Afghanistan

Coloradoindependent.com | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

Read More: War in Afghanistan, Us Ambassador to Afghanistan, American Academy of Diplomacy, Kabul, Foreign Service, Afghanistan, Taliban, Ronald Neumann, Us Diplomacy, World News

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...

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Taliban Support Increasing, Holds 72 % Of Afghanistan: Report

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

Read More: NATO Afghanistan, Isaf, Afghanistan, Afghan War, Nato, United Nations, Kabul, Taliban, Security, Afghanistan War, Icos, Taliban Support Growing, Taliban Afghanistan, Taliban Overruning Afghanistan, World News
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...

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

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Taliban, Suicide Bombers, Kabul Terrorist Attack, Afghanistan, World News
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.

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

Patrick Barry | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Kandahar, U.S. Troops, Kabul, Contractors, Afghanistan, Bush, Helmand, Pincus, Pscs, World News
Patrick Barry

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

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Uprising In Corrupt Afghan Prison Leaves 8 Dead

New York Times | KIRK SEMPLE | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul, Afghan Prison Riots, Afghanistan, Criminal Justice Afghanistan, Pul-I-Charki Prison, War in Afghanistan, Afghan Prison Uprising, World News

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

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Death in Kabul

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Afghanistan Police, Bagram, World, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Bagram Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan Police Force, Afghanistan Corruption, Taliban, Afghanistan Law, Afghanistan Lawlessness, International, World News
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.

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