US troops could start withdrawal from Afghanistan before the July 2011 deadline set by Barack Obama, the Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, has hinted. Continue Reading
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Posted on 10 March 2010 by admin
US troops could start withdrawal from Afghanistan before the July 2011 deadline set by Barack Obama, the Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, has hinted. Continue Reading
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Posted on 22 February 2010 by admin
A Nato air strike has killed at least 27 civilians including women and a child who were travelling in a convoy of minibuses. Continue Reading
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Posted on 08 February 2010 by admin
LASHKAR GAH: Taliban militants are digging in ahead of a major Nato operation in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Continue Reading
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Posted on 28 January 2010 by admin
British troops are needed in Afghanistan for another 15 years, president Hamid Karzai said as scores of foreign envoys attended a conference in London on the country’s future. Continue Reading
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Posted on 18 January 2010 by admin
The Taliban has launched its most audacious attack on the Afghan capital in the last year with assaults on a cinema, a five-star hotel, government buildings and a shopping centre. Continue Reading
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Posted on 14 January 2010 by admin
KANDAHAR: Twenty people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded market in a restive province of southern Afghanistan on Thursday, an Afghan army general said. Continue Reading
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Posted on 04 January 2010 by admin
KABUL: Four US soldiers serving under the Nato force were killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, days after seven CIA agents died in a suicide bombing, the alliance said Monday. Continue Reading
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Posted on 25 August 2009 by admin
KANDAHAR: Five car bombs were detonated simultaneously on Tuesday in Afghanistan’s largest southern city, flattening buildings and killing at least 41 people, officials said. Continue Reading
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Posted on 19 August 2009 by admin
KABUL – AT LEAST three gunmen stormed a central Kabul bank on Wednesday and were surrounded by police, an official said, as the Taleban said the attack was part of a series planned for the eve of elections. Continue Reading
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Posted on 15 May 2009 by admin
KABUL: In a stuffy Kabul wedding hall about 400 men and a dozen enthusiastic women listen to Afghan presidential candidate Frozan Fana outline her manifesto as the first woman to run the violent, tribal nation, AFP reports. Continue Reading
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