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Afghan police: US soldier shoots Afghan guard (AP)

February 5th, 2012 | Author: admin

Afghans walk over snow after a snow storm on a hill side in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. National Weather Center meteorologist Abdul Qadir Qadir says the heavy snows were beneficial for Afghanistan, which has been suffering from 12 years of drought. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP – An American soldier shot and killed an Afghan guard at a base in the country’s north, apparently because the American thought the guard was about to attack him, Afghan police said Sunday.


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UN: Civilian deaths in Afghan war hit record high (AP)

February 4th, 2012 | Author: admin

An Afghan woman wearing a burqa waits for alms with her child during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)AP – Last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians with 3,021 killed, a rise of 8 percent from the year before as insurgents ratcheted up violence with roadside bombs and suicide attacks, the United Nations said Saturday.


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Lawmakers: Stop insider attacks by Afghan troops (AP)

February 1st, 2012 | Author: admin

FILE - Afghan policemen walk ahead of the U.S. soldiers with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during a foot patrol in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Jan. 7, 2012 file photo. In testimony prepared for delivery Wednesday Feb. 1, 2012 to the House Armed Services Committee, defense officials said that in most cases the Afghans acted out of personal motivation and were not controlled or directed by insurgent groups. The second most common circumstances involved insurgents impersonating or infiltrating Afghan security forces. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)AP – Lawmakers are telling the U.S. military to do more to screen Afghan security forces to prevent those supposedly friendly troops from killing Americans fighting alongside them.


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Jury finds Afghan family guilty in honor killings (AP)

January 30th, 2012 | Author: admin

Mohammad Shafia reacts as he his led away from the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ont., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, after being found guilty of first degree murder of his three daughters and childless first wife. A jury took 15 hours to find Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in a case so shocking it has riveted Canadians from coast to coast. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes)AP – A jury on Sunday found three members of an Afghan family guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as “cold-blooded, shameful murders” resulting from a “twisted concept of honor,” ending a case that shocked and riveted Canadians.


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AP Exclusive: US talks to Afghan insurgent group (AP)

January 22nd, 2012 | Author: admin

In this Feb. 13, 1996 file photo shows Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan rebel leader and chief of the insurgent group Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, speaking at a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. Anxious to accelerate peace moves, top-level U.S. officials have held talks with a representative of a major Afghan insurgent movement led by a former prime minister that Washington had branded as a terrorist. The meetings with the group led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar show not only the degree of U.S. interest in pursuing a settlement but also the complexity of putting together an agreement acceptable to all sides in factious Afghanistan. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)AP – Anxious to accelerate peace moves, top-level U.S. officials have held talks with a representative of an insurgent movement led by a former Afghan prime minister who has been branded a terrorist by Washington, a relative of the rebel leader says.


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APNewsBreak: Afghan asylum bids hit 10-year high (AP)

January 21st, 2012 | Author: admin

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2011 file photo an Afghan immigrant holds a baby, as other Afghan immigrants, including several men on a hunger strike, protest to demand the government grant them refugee status, in central Athens. More Afghans fled the country and sought asylum abroad last year than any since the start of the war 10 years ago, suggesting that many are looking for their own exit strategy amid worry as international troops prepare to withdraw. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis, File)AP – More Afghans fled the country and sought asylum abroad in 2011 than in any other year since the start of the decade-long war, suggesting that many are looking for their own exit strategy as international troops prepare to withdraw.


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Taliban: Afghan talks won’t mean end to fighting (AP)

January 12th, 2012 | Author: admin

A US soldier walks near the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. A teenage suicide bomber slipped inside police headquarters in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, detonating his cache of explosives and wounding one officer, the chief of the headquarters said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP – The Taliban’s political wing is ready to enter peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan, but the insurgents will in the meantime continue their armed struggle, the group said Thursday.


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