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Afghanistan Taliban appears to be softening stance
KABUL, Afghanistan — Recent pronouncements by the Taliban have raised the possibility that the insurgents may be softening their stance on what a future without U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan might look like. But even among those who...
Tags: Elections, Government, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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Probe ordered into killing of Afghan student
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday ordered a top-level investigation into the killing of an Afghan student who had volunteered to assist with polio vaccinations in villages in the northern province of Kapisa. Karzai appointed a...
Tags: Government, Family, Preventative Medicine, Vaccines, Pakistan
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Afghan intelligence chief wounded in attack
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- The chief of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency was wounded Thursday afternoon in an attack at a spy agency guest house in the capital, government officials said. Asadullah Khalid, director of the National Directorate of...Tags: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Government, Taliban, National Government, Politics
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Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...Tags: 2012 Democratic National Convention, Washington, DC, United Nations, Politics, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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Obama to nominate John Kerry to be next secretary of state
WASHINGTON – President Obama will nominate John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, White House sources confirmed, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his...Tags: Washington, DC, United Nations, Politics, U.S. Senate, Wars and Interventions
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Roadside bomb in Afghanistan kills 10 civilians
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A minivan packed with civilians struck a roadside bomb in the southern Afghanistan province of Oruzgan on Thursday morning, killing 10 people and wounding eight others. Most of the victims were women and children, said Abdullah...Tags: Entertainment Events, Armed Conflicts, Felipe Calderon, Taliban, Injuries and Wounds
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Report cites extensive corruption involving Afghan bank
SAROBI, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan, notorious for institutionalized corruption, has reached breathtaking new levels of officially sanctioned theft as fresh details emerge of a massive conspiracy to loot the privately owned Kabul Bank. An independent...
Tags: Central Bank, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Political Corruption, Corporate Crime
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America's go-to man in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province
TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan — A shy boy with filthy hands and a shabby tunic approached the great man, bowed and tried to kiss his hand. Gen. Matiullah Khan was seated like a sultan on a cushion in his hojra, his airy receiving room. He barely...
Tags: Government, Taliban, National Government, Separation of Church and State, Politics
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Specter of Benghazi drives US-Afghan talks
WASHINGTON (AP) — The attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya last year has become a factor driving the White House decision on how large a force to leave in Afghanistan after 2014 — and a specter hanging over talks between the Afghan...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Washington, DC, Politics, Wars and Interventions, Christopher Stevens
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Obama moves up deadline for Afghans to take lead security role
WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Friday said he is moving up the deadline for Afghan forces to take the lead in securing their own country, a decision that could speed the withdrawal of U.S. forces in the coming months. After a meeting with Afghan...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Washington, DC, Afghanistan, Barack Obama
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Petraeus thought he was above the law
Gen. David Petraeus' actions over the past several years show that he considers himself more of a prince than a member of the armed forces who answers to his civilian commander-in-chief ("Did Petraeus have to step down?" Nov. 13). In Afghanistan, he...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq
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Shots fired, U.S. embassies stormed in furious protest over film
World NowFurious protests exploded around the world Friday as outraged demonstrators from Bangladesh to Sudan condemned an amateurish movie that mocked the Islamic prophet as a bloodthirsty womanizer and child molester. One person was killed after Lebanese...
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