Afghanistan vendors in the 'Obama Market' in Kabul sell MREs, military cots, and goggles like those used by the American military. It's not clear where they come from, but the Otis Spunkmeyer cookies are popular.

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The end of Afghanistan's election last week leaves the Barack Obama administration with a narrow window of opportunity to implement a new strategy.

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A new strategy for Afghanistan that could lead to a British troop withdrawal from a former Taleban stronghold in northern Helmand province sparked immediate controversy yesterday.

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, Despite being relatively few in number, the Afghan Taliban are thriving in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they take advantage of Islamabad's apparent ambivalence towards them, the BBC's Hugh Sykes reports from Kabul.

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The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy dependence by U.S.

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It is imperative that NATO and ISAF forces in Afghanistan remain vigilant and effectively curb cross-border infiltrations and the supply of arms to terrorists, said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday.

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Insurgents killed eight US soldiers at a remote outpost Sunday. Part of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's new strategy for Afghanistan includes moving soldiers to population centers.

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The United States, Canada and Britain are casting about for a so-called "third way" in Afghanistan, a comprehensive strategy that could among other things disarm the more pliable, mercenary elements of the Taliban and empower local leaders to solve their own problems, diplomatic  …

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Sapper Alexandre Beaudin-D'Anjou, his face still bloodied and badly swollen one day after a homemade landmine had killed two of his colleagues last week, announced he would answer questions about the awful incident, but only after making a statement.

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The Yellowcake Mafia

Fatima Rizvi : The booming Indian Yellowcake market made news throughout the late 80s and the 90s, despite Media's 'mysterious mum' over recurring incidents of Nuclear-Chemical-Biological(NCB) material theft and smuggling within and across the Indian Ocean.

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Eight winters since the launch of Enduring Freedom, the turmoil in Afghanistan continues. When contrasted with the progress in Iraqi Freedom, the gloom only deepens.

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What should be an integrated civil-military effort in Afghanistan is instead a wasteful mess. This is how we can fix it

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The US continues to be in denial as evident from the recent statement of Richard Holbrooke where he said the evidence Pakistan has produced on India's links to terrorism in Balochistan is not credible.

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A wave of Taliban-linked violence across Afghanistan over the weekend has killed 22 people including insurgents, a foreign soldier and two Afghan troops, authorities said on Sunday...

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When the truth emerges, it has to be squashed. Lord Malloch-Brown, who is standing down as a Foreign Office minister this week, was forced yesterday to correct an interview he gave to the Daily Telegraph, in which he said British troops did not have enough helicopters.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) – General David McKiernan was "dismayed, disappointed, and more than a little embarrassed" when he was ousted as the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, he said at his retirement ceremony Wednesday at Fort Myers in Virginia.

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U.S. soldier killed in roadside bombing on a convoy in western Afghanistan Follows deaths of 7 Americans, 2 Canadians, 1 Briton in separate incidents Latest deaths come as U.S. forces ratchet up fight against Taliban...

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There could be a major spike in U.S. deaths and injuries in Afghanistan next year, the top U.S. military commander revealed at the National Press Club in Washington DC.

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India going rad

We see Delhi legalizing homosexuality amid what appears to be a ricochet of political, religious and societal schisms. Without surprise, this development bears closer analogy to 'societal water-boarding' than to the intended 'Bonfire of Disparity' it professes to be.

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BRYAN WHITMAN (Pentagon spokesman): General, thank you for joining us this morning. I think you're well known by this crowd, but this is Major General Jeffrey Schloesser, who is the commander of the Combined Joint Task Force 101 in Afghanistan.

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Many, especially in Europe, believe that NATO-ISAF is the main military mission in Afghanistan.

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The Weapons Pipeline

by Rupali Gaurav: One of the most frequently asked questions is-how are the Taliban in Afghanistan and the insurgents in Pakistan getting weapons, ammunition, vehicles, explosives and communication equipment? And how is it that this deadly pipeline has neither been blocked nor re …

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Handshakes, smiling photographs and brave, encouraging words were the order of the day on May 6 at what was billed as a trilateral summit organised in Washington by President Barack Obama with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari.

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President Barack Obama received his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts, Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari, at the White House on 6 May and promised that "the United States will work with our Afghan and international partners to make every effort to avoid civilian casualties as we  …

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Several significant recent events need to be flagged.

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