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NATO airstrike said to kill 10 children in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed 11 civilians, 10 of them children, in addition to the Taliban militants it was trying to hit, Afghan officials said. The strike late Saturday in the Shigal district of restive Kunar...Tags: Executive Branch, International Organizations, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts
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U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Science and Technology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan, NATO
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Six Afghans killed in NATO airstrike, officials say
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO airstrike killed four policemen and two civilians on a rural road in Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province, Afghan officials said Thursday. Fazel Ahmad Tolwak, governor of Deyak district, said the four police had...
Tags: Taliban, Executive Branch, International Organizations, Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Hagel suggests thinning the top ranks
WASHINGTON -- Chuck Hagel was taking questions at Fort McNair on Wednesday after his first major speech as defense secretary when a man rose to ask about his recent comments on North Korea. "I was misquoted again," Hagel blurted out, without saying what...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Egypt, Chuck Hagel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iran
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Suicide attack kills nearly 50 in western Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide bombing and armed attack rocked a government compound in western Afghanistan near Iran on Wednesday, leaving at least 49 people dead, including the nine attackers, and wounding more than 50, officials said. The...Tags: United Nations, Suicide, Executive Branch, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts
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U.S. forces hand over control in Afghan province
KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S. military leaders on Saturday formally handed over security responsibilities to Afghan troops in an area of Wardak province that was the focus of claims by President Hamid Karzai that U.S. troops were responsible for...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Rights, Politics, Afghanistan, Armed Forces
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Team of suicide bombers attack police in eastern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A team of eight suicide bombers stormed a police compound in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, killing five police officers and injuring four others, a provincial police chief said. The attack comes on the second day...
Tags: Taliban, Suicide, John Kerry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan
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Kerry in show of unity with Afghanistan's Karzai
KABUL – Secretary of State John Kerry joined Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday for a public show of unity, declaring that the two allies “are on the same page” despite weeks of unprecedented friction. Kerry, who has played a...
Tags: Prisons, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, John Kerry, Politics, Afghanistan
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U.S. hands over control of Bagram prison to Afghan government
BAGRAM, Afghanistan—The U.S. handed over control of the prison at Bagram air base to the Afghan government Monday, resolving a major sticking point that had been complicating relations between Washington and Kabul as both countries brace for the...
Tags: Prisons, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abdullah II of Jordan, Politics, Afghanistan
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Kerry arrives for Afghanistan visit, will skip Pakistan for now
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In his debut diplomatic swing, Secretary of State John F. Kerry is sidestepping Pakistan for fear that Pakistanis could misinterpret a visit as American meddling in the country’s historic effort to choose a new civilian...
Tags: John Kerry, Abdullah II of Jordan, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics, Afghanistan
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U.S., Afghan leaders agree on gradual security transfer in key province
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. military leaders reached a deal with Afghan officials that calls for a gradual transition of security responsibilities in a volatile eastern province from American special forces to Afghan troops, officials from both...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Rights, Politics, Afghanistan, Justice and Rights
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U.S. should speed Afghan pullout
From media accounts, the war in Afghanistan has hit a disturbing snag which was precipitated by President Hamid Karzai's recent remarks following the U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's visit, when he accused the Taliban terrorists and America of being...Tags: Taliban, Afghanistan, Armed Forces, Barack Obama, War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
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