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/ 8 February 2012
The US’s chief envoy to Afghanistan, Marc Grossman, has met with Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of efforts to get the rebels to negotiate.
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/ 1 February 2012
The US says the Taliban are set to retake control of Afghanistan when Nato withdraws, raising fears of a failure of Western policy after a costly war.
The United States has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
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/ 26 December 2011
Afghanistan will accept a Taliban office in Qatar to help peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Washington and Pakistan must get the Taliban and Haqqani network involved in the Afghan peace process.
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/ 21 September 2011
Afghans gathered to mourn assassinated former president and chief peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani on Wednesday.
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/ 21 September 2011
A Taliban suicide bomber on Tuesday killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the government’s peace council.
It’s nice to see that feminism is finally making sensibly clad strides in Taliban-contested areas, writes <b>Chris Roper</b>.
A young victim tells of her abduction, but Taliban denies involvement.
Taliban insurgents used an eight-year-old girl carrying a bag of explosives to attack a police checkpost in central Afghanistan.
The police chief of northern Afghanistan had been among seven people killed in a suicide bombing at the Takhar governor’s office.
Pakistan’s Taliban have claimed their first strike in revenge for Osama bin Laden’s death as at least 70 were killed in a suicide and bomb attack.
The Taliban declared the start of a spring offensive across Afghanistan on Saturday, warning they would target foreign troops.
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.
Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Kayani vowed to defeat terrorism and denied that it was "not doing enough" in the anti-Taliban fight.
Female Afghan boxers hoping to make it to the London 2012 Olympics are practising their jabs in a gym where the Taliban publicly executed women.
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/ 10 February 2011
A suicide bomber killed up to 27 Pakistan army recruits at a parade ground on Thursday, an attack the Taliban said was vengeance for US drone strikes.
A White House review of President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan strategy being released on Thursday will report that forces are making headway.
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/ 15 December 2010
Foreign and Afghan forces have pushed back the Taliban insurgency in the key Kandahar province battleground.
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/ 16 November 2010
A US drone strike on an insurgent training centre in militant-riddled North Waziristan killed 15 militants amid a recent surge in the covert attacks.
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/ 11 November 2010
Millions of children lost in war around the world miss the right to feel a parent’s love more than anything else.
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/ 10 November 2010
The future of Afghanistan is placed in the hands of police officers and their superiors. Focus is placed on skills development and education.
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/ 18 September 2010
A string of attacks hit Afghanistan’s parliamentary election on Saturday, after the Taliban vowed to disrupt the poll.
Millions of Afghans are expected to defy Taliban threats and vote in a poll on Saturday seen as a crucial step towards building democracy.
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/ 15 September 2010
Police fired into the air to disperse thousands of anti-American protesters in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday.
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/ 4 September 2010
A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 54 people in the second major attack this week.
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/ 3 September 2010
A blast ripped through a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 43 people, the second major attack this week.
The FBI is conducting its own probe into the deaths of eight foreign workers gunned down in Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban.
As the British and US governments ponder their next move, the <i>Observer</i>’s <b>Peter Beaumont</b> examines the four most likely scenarios.
Winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan can be uphill work, as United States soldiers have discovered.
Iran is engaged in a covert campaign to arm, finance, train and equip Taliban insurgents, Afghan warlords allied to al-Qaeda and suicide bombers.
It begins with a relative trickle in the east of Afghanistan in 2004. Five years later it is the Taliban’s favoured weapon across the country.