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Afghanistan
A community portal about Afghanistan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Afganistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Asia and the Middle East. Generally...
A community portal about Afghanistan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Afganistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Asia and the Middle East. Generally considered a part of Central Asia, it is sometimes ascribed to a regional bloc in either South Asia or the Middle East, as it has religious, ethno-linguistic, and geographic links with most of its neighbours. It is largely bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast. The name Afghanistan means the "Land of Afghans ".
A bomb targets the convoy of Kandahar's governor. The province is considered a key battleground as the Obama administration prepares to announce the deployment of more troops.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The governor of the violent southern province of Kandahar escaped an assassination attempt today, even as President Hamid Karzai renewed his calls to...
- Karzai renews call on Taliban to lay down weapons (thenewstribune.com)
- Mullah Omar rejects call for talks (search.msn.com)
- Taliban leader rejects Karzai’s call for peace talks (thaindian.com)
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A crash site has been found in eastern Afghanistan in the search for a military contractor helicopter, NATO-led forces said Friday. The MI-8 helicopter went missing Monday night, according to a statement from the NATO-led ...
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- New NATO Command in Kabul Focuses on Afghan Training (globalsecurity.org)
NATO governments may increase their fighting forces in Afghanistan by up to 6,000 soldiers in response to President Barack Obama's expected call for tens of thousands of additional U.S. service members, diplomats said Friday.
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- Pakistan's Gilani warns Obama over US Afghan troop plan (search.msn.com)
- Obama sets Afghan troop strategy date (news.ask.com)
- Obama to unveil Afghanistan war plan (news.ask.com)
This month, an Afghan police officer patrolled Baluchai Alchin, near Kunduz, Afghanistan. NATO and Afghan troops recently fought insurgents around Kunduz. Afghan officials cut the police force here by a third two years ago and again earlier this year ...
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- Taliban reopen northern front in Afghanistan (search.msn.com)
By By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU -- By day, French soldiers fight side by side with Afghans during Taliban attacks. By night, their officers share meals, the French trying to muster haute cuisine from military rations, the Afghans offering steaming piles of mutton stew and rice.As President Barack Obama prepares to pour up to 35,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan, a much smaller contingent of NATO trainers - many of them European - form a...
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- Another NATO oil tanker destroyed by militants near Peshawar (search.msn.com)
