Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan

Zakaria: In AfPak, India Is the Real Prize

A relationship Obama should nurture. Indian officials worry that the Obama team does not have the same fundamental orientation as the Bush administration regarding India's role in the 21st century. The more lasting danger is...

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Change Could Mean Troops Must Move On

Stars and Stripes|by Drew Brown GOLESTAN DISTRICT, Afghanistan - Set amid a sweep of cragged peaks that run 40 miles from north to south and stretching just three miles across, the Golestan valley has been one of the most...

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AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces

By Lal Aqa Sherin* KABUL, Nov 21 (IPS) - A Taliban fighter infiltrated the Afghan police force, killing seven Afghan officers and British soldiers. Afghan interior and defence ministries deny that the screening of prospective...

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China says 42 dead, 66 trapped in mine explosionBEIJING (AP) _ A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked...

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Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:45 AM PST Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives. "Multiply him by 1,000, and you'll understand...

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Prisoners tortured, but fewer than alleged: warden

By Matthew Fisher, Canwest News ServiceNovember 21, 2009 6:17 PM Photograph by: Graham Thomson, Edmonton Journal KANDAHAR CITY, Afghanistan — Prisoners were tortured at Sarpoza Prison in Afghanistan, but not in nearly the...

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Indo-Iranian relations in downward spiral

The Indian Iranian relations have gone down from they heyday when Iranian President Seyyed Mohammed Khatami’s five-day India visit went to India in Juanuary 24th 2003 to celebrate Bharat’s republic Day. At the time there were...

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Afghan police are weak link in security force!

Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 14:28 IST Tags: Kabul: Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the...

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Militants target luxury Afghan hotel with rockets

A rocket has hit the outside wall of the luxury Serena hotel in the Afghan capital on Saturday wounding one Afghan soldier on the street outside, another soldier at the scenes said. A police source said two people were wounded....

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As deaths in Afghanistan rise, so does the growth of opium

Attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan are at record levels and threaten to derail efforts to rebuild the war-torn country, while an unholy alliance of Taliban drug dealers and corrupt government officials has made a...

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