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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Afghan President Hamid Karzai will try to secure more military aid in talks with Indian leaders on Tuesday as he looks to beef up his security forces after international troops pull out next year. Karzai is to hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee after accepting an honorary degree on Monday night from the Lovely Professional University in the northern state of Punjab. The Afghan leader used his acceptance speech to thank India for its support since he came to power in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 14 people including a senior local politician, officials said. Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who was wearing a police uniform, blew himself up in the centre of Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province. “I collected information from different hospitals and the death toll is 14. Another nine people are wounded,” said Zubair Akbary, the provincial public health director. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 20th, 2013 A suicide bomber struck outside a provincial council headquarters in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing the council chief and at least 13 others, authorities said.
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By Mujib Mashal, on May 16th, 2013 Allegations reflecting the country’s deep levels of corruption surfaced in a dramatic session of the Afghan parliament. Mujib Mashal reports from Kabul.
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By By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and SANGAR RAHIMI, on May 16th, 2013 Six Americans are among the dead after a car packed with explosives shook the relative calm that has prevailed for months in the Afghan capital.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A powerful suicide car bomb targeting a Nato military convoy in Kabul killed eight Afghan civilians including two children on Thursday in the first major attack in the capital for more than two months. Government officials said eight passers-by died in the explosion in the Shah Shaheed residential district in southeast Kabul, while the Nato coalition was unable to give details of any casualties. Hezb-i-Islami, an insurgent group that is independent from Taliban militant forces, claimed responsibility for the attack. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, on May 14th, 2013 The attack hit in a district of Kandahar Province that was a showcase for the American troop surge — and the birthplace of the Taliban.
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By Heidi Vogt, on May 12th, 2013 Heidi Vogt was always one of the first people to file when a bomb exploded in Afghanistan. But what happens when the press starts to draw down?
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By John Kael Weston, on May 11th, 2013 John Kael Weston talks to Carter Malkasian, a top expert on Afghanistan, on what he learned from two years with locals in one remote district.
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By , on May 5th, 2013 
Israel launches a rocket attack the military research centre of Mount Qassioun in the Syrian capital, Damascus, state TV reports.
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By By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, on May 4th, 2013 The C.I.A. money, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan told reporters, was “an easy source of petty cash,” and he suggested that some of it was used to pay off warlords and power brokers.
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By By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, on May 2nd, 2013 A confidential assessment by the I.M.F. said the budget shortfall was caused by tax evasion, corruption and slower economic growth.
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By By ALISSA J. RUBIN, on April 27th, 2013 At a farewell party for the French ambassador to Afghanistan, the guest of honor let the diplomatic mask slip to talk about the country’s future.
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By , on April 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A bus collided on Friday with the wreckage of a truck that had been attacked by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 45 people aboard the bus in a fiery crash, officials said. The battered oil tanker had been left in the middle of a narrow road near the border of Kandahar and Helmand provinces for several days after insurgents attacked it. Police considered the area too dangerous to enter, the officials said. Before sunrise on Friday, the bus smashed into the truck and burst into flames, said Abdul Razaq, the provincial police chief of Kandahar. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Afghanistan’s policewomen suffer sexual assault by male colleagues, often inside police stations, a rights group said on Thursday, calling for women-only toilets and changing facilities to curb such abuse. Addressing the concerns of policewomen is necessary to address the “rampant violence” against women in the wider society, said Human Rights Watch. “Harassment and abuse is an everyday experience for many Afghan women,” said HRW Asia director Brad Adams. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nato said on Thursday that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is being won, despite reports by other agencies of a sharp upsurge in insurgent attacks this year. “While numerous challenges remain, there are some basic facts that highlight the improved security across the country,” said US General Joseph Dunford, head of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Afghan village elders were locked in talks with the Taliban on Tuesday in a bid to free 10 foreign and one Afghan hostage being held captive by the militia for a third day, officials said. The Taliban, who are fighting an 11-year insurgency against US-led Nato troops and the Afghan government, said earlier the captives were in good health and had been moved to a “safe area”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taliban insurgents have seized eight Turks and an Afghan from a civilian helicopter that made an emergency landing in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Monday. The incident happened after the Turkish helicopter landed on Sunday evening, said Rais Khan Sadeq, deputy police chief of Logar province, south of Kabul. “Security forces found the helicopter but the nine people were not in it. They are taken by the Taliban,” Sadeq said. Revising earlier information, he said the group is made up of eight Turks and one Afghan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on April 12th, 2013 Taliban militants attacked an army outpost near the eastern border with Pakistan on Friday, killing 13 soldiers, the Defense Ministry said.
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By , on April 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Relatives and colleagues of a young US diplomat killed in Afghanistan honoured her Sunday as a smart woman just starting her career and eager to engage with locals in the war-ravaged country. Anne Smedinghoff, 25, was among at least five Americans killed in separate attacks on Saturday, in the deadliest day for foreigners in Afghanistan this year, as she traveled with Afghan officials to distribute books to students. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to push for Indian military aid
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Afghan President Hamid Karzai will try to secure more military aid in talks with Indian leaders on Tuesday as he looks to beef up his security forces after international troops pull out next year. Karzai is to hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee after accepting an honorary degree on Monday night from the Lovely Professional University in the northern state of Punjab. The Afghan leader used his acceptance speech to thank India for its support since he came to power in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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