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With the West's occupation of Afghanistan now nearing the seven-year mark and plagued by an increasingly powerful and deadly insurgency revitalized by massive profits from the opium trade, Western officials gained some...
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan said Thursday it planned to extend a controversial mission backing the US-led "war on terror" in Afghanistan , a day after Taliban extremists killed a Japanese aid worker in the war-torn country. The...
SHEWA, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A Japanese aid worker kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan has been killed by his captors, the governor of Nangarhar province said on Wednesday. "He has been killed. Police have recovered his...
30 suspected Taliban killed in Afghanistan clashes, airstrikes; Japanese aid worker killed By NOOR KHAN Associated Press Writer KANDAHAR, Afghanistan August 27, 2008 (AP) More than 30 suspected Taliban fighters died in...
Drought and anti-drug campaigns helped slash Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation by 19 percent this year compared to 2007, but Taliban militants could still derive up to $70 million from the harvest, the U.N. anti-drug...
