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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: Kidnapping, Iraq, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Politics
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Security risks, frayed relations dog U.S., Afghans
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A series of security problems and fractured relations with Afghan leaders plagued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's first trip here as Pentagon chief, including the Afghan president's accusations that the U.S. and the Taliban...
Tags: Defense, Prisons, Suicide, Hamid Karzai, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Amid Hagel visit, Karzai accuses U.S. of conspiring with Taliban
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan — The often-volatile U.S. relationship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai grew increasingly strained Sunday as Karzai accused the U.S. and Taliban insurgents of having a secret understanding to foment violence as a pretext to keep...Tags: U.S. Embassy, National Government, Defense, Prisons, Government
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Suicide bomber strikes as Hagel visits Kabul; 9 civilians dead
KABUL, Afghanistan --A loud explosion struck outside Afghanistan's Defense Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, reportedly killing at least nine civilians in an attack less than a mile from where U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was staying in the capital....
Tags: U.S. Military, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Bombings, Venezuela
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Hagel arrives in Afghanistan for first visit as defense chief
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for talks on the size of the U.S. force expected to remain in the country after next year. The visit, which was not announced in advance, was Hagel's first to the war...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan, Vietnam War (1955-1975), U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
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Charity helps foreign troops take Afghanistan pets home
KABUL, Afghanistan — She was just an ordinary brown mutt, a stray, but Pvt. Conrad Lewis loved her. Lewis, a British paratrooper in Afghanistan's Helmand province, adopted the dog and named her Pegasus. Everyone called her Peg. In his letters...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Iraq, Vaccines, United Kingdom, Viral Diseases and Infections
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NDSU professor mentors Afghanistan woman
Mentoring and advising agribusiness students is not unusual for Cheryl Wachenheim, a professor in North Dakota State University's Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department. However, it is new territory for her to mentor someone who lives thousands...Tags: Afghanistan
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Critics say Afghan court was lenient in bank corruption case
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan tribunal handed down the first jail sentences Tuesday in the colossal Kabul Bank corruption case, sentencing the two former top executives to five-year sentences and ordering them to repay hundreds of millions of...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Bankruptcy, National Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Government
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Roadside bomb kills 7 Afghan police, 2 civilians
KABUL, Afghanistan – Seven Afghan border police were killed Thursday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. Two civilians also were killed. The incident occurred about 4 p.m. while the team of border...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Rebellions, Bombings, Armed Conflicts, Afghanistan
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10 hurt in Afghanistan suicide attack
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying Afghan army soldiers Wednesday morning in a western district of Kabul, wounding six of them and four civilians in the second security incident in the capital this week. As snow fell over the...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bombings, Injuries and Wounds, Afghanistan, Taliban
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Kerry confronts clashing interests in Syria, Iran and Russia
This time will be different. That is the word from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to Syrian rebels who have become so frustrated by empty promises of help to overthrow President Bashar Assad that they had threatened to boycott a Thursday meeting in...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Religion and Belief, National Government, Government, Politics
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10 Afghan police officers, seven others drugged and slain
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Ten members of an Afghan rural paramilitary force and seven others were drugged and killed at an outpost in a volatile eastern province, officials said Wednesday, in the latest deadly poisoning attributed to Taliban insurgents. The...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Murder, Politics, Suicide
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