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Afghans seek control of security by 2014
Afghans want responsibility for the country’s security by 2014, President Hamid Karzai told an international donors’ conference on Tuesday.
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Afghan attack kills eight CIA employees
A suicide bomber penetrated an army base in Afghanistan to kill eight US CIA employees on Wednesday, one of the spy agency’s largest death tolls.
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Afghan election officials fired ahead of run-off
The heads of more than half of Afghanistan’s district election offices will be replaced to prevent fraud in a second-round presidential election.
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Karzai under pressure as Afghan election ruling due
Afghanistan remained locked in political crisis on Monday as its president resisted accepting the result of a fraud probe into August’s elections.
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Karzai, chief rival both claim victory in Afghan vote
President Hamid Karzai’s campaign and chief rival Abdullah Abdullah both claimed victory on Friday in Afghanistan’s election.
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Afghans vote despite sporadic violence
Millions of Afghans went to the polls on Thursday, defying Taliban threats of violence and sporadic attacks across the country to choose a president.
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Taliban gunmen killed in Kabul on eve of Afghan vote
Gunmen stormed a bank building in the Afghan capital and battled police for hours on Wednesday on the eve of a cliffhanger election.
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Help us or we’ll grow opium, say Afghan villagers
Abdul Wadud (50) walked for two hours across Afghanistan’s remote northern mountains to hear a police commander give yet more promises of aid.
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In the north Afghans battle hunger, not the Taliban
The US decision to send more troops to Afghanistan will mean little to the people of northern Sang-i-Khel village whose fight is against hunger.
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Foreigners threaten Afghanistan’s snow leopards
Afghanistan’s snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards in the country face another threat.
