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IN A DUSTY VILLAGE NEAR KABUL, BRIAN READE MEETS THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE CONFLICT Life is tough here - it shows in people's faces. In the village of Danishmand, 10 miles outside Kabul, the Afghanis speak of their hopes. In this...
Saturday, November 21, 2009 AFGHANISTAN At least 21 killed in separate attacks A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a...
CAMP ATTERBURY, IND. -- Outside a scruffy, two-story building, armed and flak-jacketed U.S. soldiers stood watch under a sagging Afghan flag. Inside, the provincial governor, a Hamid Karzai look-alike in a striped robe and...
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- At least 25 people were killed in four bombings Friday in Afghanistan, including an attack on a politician who survived. The wave of violence came the day after President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated to a...
Even before the shootings at this sprawling military post, Pfc. Nicolas Woodworth was wary of shipping out for Afghanistan in early January. As a combat engineer, he is supposed to serve on a route-clearance team, creeping down...
This week it turned its attention to diplomat Richard Colvin Stephen Harper's Conservatives just cannot help themselves. This week, however, the partisanship descended even lower with the assault on the integrity and motives of...
New Delhi: Moving beyond the transformational nuclear deal, India and the US are set to unveil a new template for deepening strategic partnership on key global challenges, ranging from counter-terrorism to non-proliferation and...
Bloomberg - Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services...
Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11:20 IST Tags: Washington: President Barack Obama will wait until after Americans mark Thanksgiving on November 26 to announce whether or not he sends reinforcements to Afghanistan, his...
Herat (Afghanistan), Nov. 20: Bomb attacks on Friday killed 23 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai’s second term that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war. The attacks...
