Afghans want responsibility for the country’s security by 2014, President Hamid Karzai told an international donors’ conference on Tuesday.
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/ 31 December 2009
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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/ 21 October 2009
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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/ 19 October 2009
Afghanistan remained locked in political crisis on Monday as its president resisted accepting the result of a fraud probe into August’s elections.
President Hamid Karzai’s campaign and chief rival Abdullah Abdullah both claimed victory on Friday in Afghanistan’s election.
Millions of Afghans went to the polls on Thursday, defying Taliban threats of violence and sporadic attacks across the country to choose a president.
Gunmen stormed a bank building in the Afghan capital and battled police for hours on Wednesday on the eve of a cliffhanger election.
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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/ 24 February 2009
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.
Afghanistan’s snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards in the country face another threat.