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Usman Sharifi
Afghan Taliban announces start of ‘spring offensive’
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Usman Sharifi
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22 Apr 2015
The start of the Afghan Taliban's annual offensive on Friday is expected to precede the bloodiest fighting season in a decade as Nato forces pull out.
Afghanistan elections a ‘huge success’
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Usman Sharifi
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5 Apr 2014
Exceeding turnout predictions, thousands of Afghans took to the polls to cast their votes for a new president despite Taliban threats.
Afghan voters brave Taliban, weather to cast ballots
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Usman Sharifi
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5 Apr 2014
Despite cold weather and the Taliban rejecting Afghanistan's election as a foreign plot, voters turned out in large numbers to choose a new president.
Taliban’s Kabul bombing a message to US defence chief Hagel
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Usman Sharifi
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9 Mar 2013
A suicide bomber on a bicycle has killed nine people outside the defence ministry in Kabul during a visit by new US defence secretary Chuck Hagel.
Doubts begin to cloud Afghan transition
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Usman Sharifi
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9 Jun 2011
Worrying questions hang over a plan to start switching from Nato to local control in Afghanistan, just weeks before the process is due to start.
Nine Americans dead after row with Afghan airman
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Usman Sharifi
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27 Apr 2011
An Afghan ex-pilot opened fire after a row at a Kabul training centre on Wednesday, leaving eight US troops and an American contractor dead.
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