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NATO invites Pakistan to key summit
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
Pakistan welcomed a NATO invitation Tuesday to attend key talks on the future of Afghanistan in Chicago next week but remained non-committal on ending a nearly ...
Pentagon defends Afghan local police program
May 14, 2012 (AFP)
The Pentagon defended a program Monday that recruits local police forces in Afghan villages despite a US-funded report that raises questions about the militia's...
Uighurs 'face fight for existence' against China
May 14, 2012 (AFP)
Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer said Monday her people face a fight for their very existence against Chinese repression as a conference in Japan threatened t...
Soldiers shot by Afghan police were British: London
May 13, 2012 (AFP)
Two soldiers shot dead in southern Afghanistan by local police officers were British, the Ministry of Defence confirmed on Sunday a day after the killings. "Sad...
NATO a step closer to getting out of Afghan war
May 13, 2012 (AFP)
NATO took a step closer to getting out of the Afghan war on Sunday as the Kabul government announced local forces would take over control of security in a large...
Top Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul
May 13, 2012 (AFP)
A senior Afghan peace negotiator and close ally of President Hamid Karzai was shot dead Sunday, dealing a major blow to Kabul's efforts to broker peace with Tal...
Obama hails 'important step' in Afghan transition
May 13, 2012 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama welcomed the Kabul government's move Sunday to have local forces take control of security in a large new slice of the country as an "i...
NATO summit must protect Afghan women: UN
May 12, 2012 (AFP)
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan sounded warnings Saturday over the future of women's rights and schooling for girls ahead of a NATO summit focused on ...
Men in Afghan uniforms kill two NATO troops: ISAF
May 12, 2012 (AFP)
Two NATO troops were killed by two men in Afghan police uniforms in southern Afghanistan Saturday, the military said, with Afghan sources identifying the victim...
US coalition forces admit Afghan civilian deaths
May 11, 2012 (AFP)
NATO and US forces in Afghanistan admitted Friday that a number of civilians were killed in two separate airstrikes, days after President Hamid Karzai warned th...
Commentary: Afghanistan: Realism, reality
May 10, 2012 (UPI)
Realism is the idea of throwing a U.S. security blanket over Afghanistan for another 10 years after the last U.S. and NATO units leave the France-sized country ...
Merkel says NATO must stick to Afghanistan timetable
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the timetable laid out by NATO for international troops to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 must ...
NATO admits Afghan family killed in airstrike
May 08, 2012 (AFP)
NATO forces in Afghanistan Tuesday admitted responsibility for the deaths of a civilian family of six in an airstrike in the southern province of Helmand last w...
Civilian deaths threaten US pact: Afghan president
May 07, 2012 (AFP)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai summoned the NATO commander and the US ambassador on Monday to warn that civilian casualties in military operations threatened a s...
Hollande victory shakes up NATO's Afghan war plans
May 07, 2012 (AFP)
After pledging to speed up France's pullout from Afghanistan, incoming president Francois Hollande will soon have to reassure NATO allies about his decision to ...
Man in Afghan uniform kills NATO soldier: ISAF
May 06, 2012 (AFP)
A soldier with NATO's US-led coalition in Afghanistan was killed by a man in Afghan army uniform on Sunday, a spokesman for the mission said, in the latest so-c...
Commentary: End and beginning of war
May 03, 2012 (UPI)
A sense of inevitable war with Iran seized Israel as its two principal leaders -- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak -- concluded...
Obama tells Americans 'dark cloud' of war is lifting
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama is to tell Americans from Afghanistan that a decade under the "dark cloud" of war was ending and that the "light of a new day" was on ...
US-Afghan pact 'does not rule out drone strikes'
May 02, 2012 (AFP)
The pact between the United States and Afghanistan could leave the door open for continued drone strikes against insurgent targets in Pakistan after 2014, US Am...
Long-term 'challenges' in Afghanistan: US military
May 01, 2012 (AFP)
Security has improved in most of Afghanistan but insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan and pervasive corruption pose "long-term and acute challenges" in the war eff...
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