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/ 18 September 2010
Afghans voted in a parliamentary election on Saturday despite Taliban attacks that killed at least 10 people.
Afghanistan will limit foreign involvement in two major anti-crime units in a move likely to worry its Western backers.
More Nato troops will die in Afghanistan this year, a US officer said, as a report emerged implicating Pakistan for collaborating with the insurgency.
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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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/ 4 November 2009
Technocrats and some existing ministers will be appointed to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s new government, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.
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/ 3 November 2009
Hamid Karzai vowed to form an inclusive government on Tuesday after warnings from Western supporters he would have to root out corruption.
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/ 28 October 2009
Taliban militants killed six UN staff in an assault on a guesthouse in Kabul on Wednesday, raising questions about security for the November 7 run-off
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/ 19 October 2009
The chances of a run-off being needed to end Afghanistan’s political crisis increased on Monday with the submission of a report on poll irregularities
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/ 12 October 2009
Afghanistan’s election watchdog changed its fraud-tallying rules for the second time in less than a week on Monday.
The Afghan Taliban pose no threat to the West but will continue their fight against occupying foreign forces, they said on Wednesday, the eighth anniv