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Afghanistan in the Media
| Within hours of announcing they were ready to talk peace, the Taliban took credit for killing four more Americans and the government of Afghanistan is backing out of negotiations. Is the whole process of bringing peace to the country doomed to fail? |
| Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:49:48 GMT |
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| Kabul, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced at a ceremony on Tuesday that his country's armed forces are taking over the lead for security nationwide from the U.S.-led NATO coalition. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:50:40 GMT |
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| Hope flickered in war-torn Afghanistan on Tuesday as national security forces formally took over security leadership and peace talks with the Taliban are now in the works. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:31:10 GMT |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A large bomb exploded in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least three people on the day the international military coalition hands over responsibility for fighting the Taliban insurgency to the nascent national army and police they have been training. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:53:00 GMT |
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| Angered over the way that a Taliban political office was opened in Qatar, the Afghan government backed away from discussions, while separately breaking off talks on military ties with the United States. |
| Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:23:09 GMT |
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| Afghanistan will send a team to Qatar for peace talks with the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai has said, as the US-led Nato coalition launched the final phase of the 12-year war with the last round of security transfers. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:59:18 GMT |
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| As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. |
| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:12:47 GMT |
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| KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan will stay out of peace talks between the United States and the Taliban until "foreign powers" allow the negotiations to be run by Afghans, President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday. "As long as the peace process is not Afghan-led, the High Peace Council will not participate in the talks in Qatar," Karzai said in a statement, referring to a body he set up in 2010 to ... |
| Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:59:22 GMT |
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| Afghanistan's president has disrupted plans for peace talks between America and the Taliban by threatening a boycott. Related Stories Taliban kills four US troops in Afghanistan North Korea hits out at 'handful of human scum' who claimed that Kim Jong-un gave out copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to officials on his birthday Taliban admits attack that kills four US troops in Afghanistan just ... |
| Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:01:42 GMT |
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| Afghanistan has suspended negotiations with the U.S. on a bilateral security deal, in a dispute over proposed U.S. talks with the Taliban. A statement from Afghanistan's National Security Council Wednesday cited "the contradiction between acts and the statements made" by the U.S. in regard to the peace process. The U.S. talks with Afghanistan are focused on what American and coalition security ... |
| Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:30:47 GMT |
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