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/ 20 October 2009
Hamid Karzai will accept final results due later on Tuesday from Afghanistan’s chaotic election, officials said after frantic Western lobbying.
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/ 20 October 2009
The United States cannot wait for problems surrounding the legitimacy of the Afghan government to be resolved before making a decision on troops.
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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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/ 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.
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/ 16 October 2009
Tension was high in Afghanistan on Friday as electoral authorities prepared to announce whether Hamid Karzai would be forced into a run-off election.
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/ 14 October 2009
Hamid Karzai is likely to face a second round run-off in early November, a former diplomat close to the US regional envoy said on Wednesday.
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/ 13 October 2009
Extraordinary self-adjusting glasses, with little wheels on the sides, are being shipped to Afghanistan, Ghana and Tanzania.
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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.
A large bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding 76.
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
Defence Secretary Robert Gates blamed the Taliban’s revival on a failure to deploy enough troops to Afghanistan and said US forces would not withdraw.
Afghanistan’s election watchdog will treat presidential candidates as equally likely to be guilty of vote fraud in suspicious cases, new rules show.
General McChrystal knows allied operations need an overhaul. But the president fears a troops boost will turn it into his Vietnam.
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/ 28 September 2009
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri told US-led forces to leave Afghanistan or face a ”flood of death” in the central Asian country.
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/ 26 September 2009
Osama bin Laden demanded European countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan and warned in a new audiotape of ”retaliation” against them.
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/ 21 September 2009
The top US commander in Afghanistan says in an assessment of the war that without additional forces the mission ”will likely result in failure”.
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/ 17 September 2009
Hamid Karzai said on Thursday fraud claims in last month’s elections were exaggerated, just before six Italian troops were killed in a suicide attack.
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/ 16 September 2009
Afghan election authorities will announce the long-delayed tally from last month’s presidential vote on Wednesday, a spokesperson said.
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/ 14 September 2009
Afghanistan’s upper house of Parliament has condemned the release of an Afghan journalist who was sentenced to 20 years in jail for blasphemy.
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/ 14 September 2009
From women’s liberation to domestic despotism in eight years. But the structure set up by the neocons is still in place.
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/ 12 September 2009
One Western diplomat told the New York Times that Karzai’s men set up hundreds of fictitious polling stations.
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/ 10 September 2009
The rescue of a British journalist from the Taliban has provoked anger about the risks reporters take in war zones.
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/ 9 September 2009
Nato commandos on Wednesday rescued a New York Times reporter held by the Taliban in Afghanistan during a dramatic airborne swoop.
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/ 8 September 2009
Afghanistan’s election watchdog said on Tuesday it had found evidence of fraud in last month’s presidential election and ordered a partial recount.
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/ 8 September 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she ”deeply regrets” any innocent victims in Afghanistan.
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/ 8 September 2009
A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle outside a Nato military base at Kabul’s main airport on Tuesday killing at least two civilians.
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/ 7 September 2009
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai hopes to hold peace talks with the Taliban within 100 days if he is re-elected, he said in an interview on Monday.
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/ 6 September 2009
It is a graphic image of the realities of war: the fatally wounded young marine lying crumpled in the mud, his vulnerable face turned to the camera.
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/ 4 September 2009
Nato acknowledged on Friday that large numbers of Afghan civilians were being treated in hospitals after its aircraft opened fire on hijacked tankers.
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/ 4 September 2009
The stench of burnt flesh hung over the banks of the Kunduz river on Friday, the ground scattered with the body parts of villagers.
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/ 4 September 2009
Britain and the US on Friday defended their strategy in Afghanistan amid mounting criticism over the rising death toll from war-weary voters.
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/ 4 September 2009
Nato was investigating whether it killed scores of Afghan civilians on Friday after carrying out an air strike against two hijacked fuel tankers.