December 30, 2011
A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]
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December 30, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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December 29, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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December 25, 2011
A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]
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August 11, 2011
File photo shows troops serving in the International Security Assistance Force on a dawn patrol in Afghanistan. Five NATO soldiers were killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, as the Taliban rejected a US claim to have killed the fighters who shot down an American helicopter killing 38 troops. The soldiers’ nationalities and [...]
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July 27, 2011
File photo of an Afghan wheeling his bicycle across a street in Kandahar City. The mayor of Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan and the birthplace of the Taliban movement, was killed in a suicide attack on Wednesday, police said. The death comes two weeks after the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the so-called [...]
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May 7, 2011
This undated file photo provided by New Mark Communications shows Greg Mortenson of Roseville, Minn., who founded the Central Asia Institute, a Montana-based organization which builds schools for girls in remote tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Greg Mortenson, author of the bestseller “Three Cups of Tea,” was sued for fraud on Friday in a [...]
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May 6, 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini (not in picture) wearing translation earphones in Rome, May 5, 2011. Extensive surveillance of Osama bin Laden’s hideout from a nearby CIA safe house in Abbottabad led to his killing in a Navy SEALs operation, US officials said, a revelation likely [...]
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May 4, 2011
An Afghan mother, who lost relatives in Afghanistan’s wars is pictured in 2010 cradling a child at a mass grave on the outskirts of Kabul. Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said. “Afghanistan has the highest lifetime risk of [...]
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May 3, 2011
The United States warned it would probe how Osama bin Laden managed to live in undetected luxury in Pakistan, as gripping details emerged about the US commando raid that killed the Al-Qaeda kingpin. Officials said DNA tests had proven conclusively that the man shot dead by US special forces in Abbottabad was indeed the [...]
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